Wednesday, April 17, 2013

Turkish Publishing on the Rise: It’s "More Than Orhan Pamuk"


Turkey's professionalized publishing industry is on full display at the London Book Fair with the hope that foreigners will take a greater interest in translations and trade.
Discussion:
Books with first-hand accounts of life in North Korea are rare, so John Sweeney's Zombie Nation and Jang Jin-Sung's Crossing the Border are generating unique buzz at LBF.
More News from PP:
The new Gimbal app, launching Tuesday at the London Book Fair, features translated short stories for commuters that allows you to explore a city through fiction.
Porter Anderson assesses the Digital Minds Conference at the London Book Fair, where metaphors were in vogue, the end of copyright debated, and speed was the word of the day.
From the Archives:
What happens when you take a book and transform its content into a building, like Orhan Pamuk’s Museum of Innocence in Istanbul? Helmut von Berg considers.

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