World’s largest publishing trade event focuses on star writers as authors including Margaret Atwood, Dan Brown and Nicholas Sparks to appearMargaret Atwood, Dan Brown and Nicholas Sparks are among the big name authors descending on Frankfurt this week as the world’s oldest book fair glams up for the Instagram generation. Read moreGuest nation France will lead by example, bringing more than 180 writers to Germany, including some of the world’s best-known French-language authors. The lineup includes serial provocateur Michel Houellebecq, enfant terrible Édouard Louis, acclaimed Congolese novelist Alain Mabanckou and Moroccan-born Leïla Slimani. This year’s fair will also be politically charged in other ways. The Frankfurt book fair is the world’s largest publishing event, bringing together more than 7,000 exhibitors from more than 100 countries.

Source: The Guardian October 09, 2017 05:00 UTC