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08/12/2009
Nonfiction Publisher’s Trip to New York City
The Frankfurt Book Fair will be organizing a Nonfiction Publisher’s Trip to New York City for BookExpo America 2009.
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02/10/2009
Swiss Book Prize Shortlist
The five remaining novels of the Swiss Book Prize have been announced.
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08/12/2008
Best Translated Book of 2008: Fiction Longlist
Announced on the Three Percent website: The 2008 Best Translated Book of the Year Fiction Longlist reflects the vibrancy and high quality of the books in translation being published in the United States.
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27/10/2008
Barbetta Wins the Aspekte Literature Prize
Tailor Los Milagros, Avenida Gascón, Buenos Aires: Here the young Mariana Nalo works with her aunt Milagros.
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02/10/2008
English Excerpts of German Book Prize Shortlist
Sign and Sight presents English excerpts of remaining novels.
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17/09/2008
The Frankfurt Book Fair is celebrating its 60th anniversary
60 Years at the Heart of the Media World
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05/09/2008
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
The National Endowment for the Arts announces a fellowship for translators.
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19/08/2008
Frankfurt Book Fair announces the 22nd International Rights Directors Meeting
Effective negotiating skills to be highlighted at the 22nd International Rights Directors Meeting of the Frankfurt Book Fair / 30th anniversary of the Literary Agents & Scouts Center
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07/08/2008
Calendar of Events for the Frankfurt Book Fair 2008
Are you planning readings, signings, discussions or other events for the Frankfurt Book Fair?
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06/08/2008
Frankfurt Book Fair tickets on sale at the GBO
Trade visitor tickets are available now for $74
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08/07/2008
Frankfurt Book Fair announces the 2008 Rights Directors Meeting
Getting to YES - The Successful Rights Negotiation and Deal
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03/07/2008
German Book Office seeking temporary-to-permanent assistant to director
Job Responsibilities:
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03/07/2008
David Dollenmayer receives 2008 Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator’s Prize
On June 9, 2008, David Dollenmayer was awarded the 2008 Helen and Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize for his translation of a memoir from German to English
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03/07/2008
2008 GBO Editor’s Trip focuses on crime literature
From June 8 through June 14, the German Book Office conducted its annual editor’s trip to Berlin and Munich.
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23/04/2008
Lilian Faschinger Wins Crime Literature Prize
Das Syndikat, an author association for German-language crime literature, awarded Faschinger the Friedrich Glauser Prize for her novel, City of Losers.
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15/04/2008
Chad Post Counts Translations for 2008
Chad Post of Open Letter and the blog, Three Percent, has begun a new project to count the number of fiction and poetry books in translation that will be published in the United States in 2008.
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10/04/2008
Geisteswissenschaften International
Translation Funding for Humanities and Social Sciences from Germany
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02/04/2008
Fourth PEN World Voices Festival to feature eight German-speaking authors
The 2008 PEN World Voices Festival will take place in New York City from April 29 through May 4.
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04/03/2008
GBO Book Pick for March
"How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone" by Saša Stanišić
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23/01/2008
German-Language Literature: It’s a Party
An article by Eberhard Falcke from New Literary Releases from Germany, © AuM (Frankfurt Book Fair), 2008
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15/01/2008
Upcoming Translation Funding Deadlines
The GBO would like to remind publishers of these fast-approaching translation funding and prize deadlines for books published in 2007.
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15/01/2008
The GBO Recommends: Bernhard Schlink at the New York Public Library
NOTE: THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED
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