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Music

Italy Guest of Honour 2024 and music as literature of the heart

Music is literature of the heart, it is stenography of the emotions, say poets. Music and literature have come together since the beginning of our tradition: from classical poems to medieval ballads to the grand opera season, Italy has been the cradle of the world’s music culture.
Mazza and Rolando chatting
Conference

Destination Frankfurt: culture is the opposite of solitude

“Imaginary Life” was chosen as the title of the 36th Turin International Book Fair, another important milestone on the Italy Guest of Honour 2024 journey with “Destination Frankfurt”.
Amedeo Modigliani, Elena Povolozky, 1917
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Exhibition

A tryptich exhibition of the works of Puccini, Modigliani and Liebermann highlights the wealth of Italian culture

Three major exhibitions promoted by the Italian Embassy in Berlin confirm an interest in Italian music, art and culture in Germany, with a multimedia show on Puccini, a personal Modigliani exhibit and one dedicated to Max Lieberman's Italy.
laptop with piles of books on the sides
Publishing trends

Frankfurt calls, and now Newitalianbooks.it also answers in German

Thanks to the new version of the platform for launching Italian books abroad, engaging in dialogue with the German-speaking world is now even easier.
young woman reading a book
Publishing trends

New releases in translation (December 2023 to March 2024)

From rediscovered literary classics to graphic novels.
Books hanging on display in Bologna Children's Book Fair
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Interview

Bologna Children's Book Fair. An interview with Elena Pasoli

According to data from the Italian Publishers Association (AIE), more than one in three translation rights sold abroad concern children’s and young people's books. We spoke with Elena Pasoli from Bologna’s Children’s Book Fair about the characteristics of the Italian children’s publishing.
Mattotti's illustration
Motto

Mattotti’s calla lily blooms in Bologna and projects Italy into Frankfurt 2024

A preview of Frankfurt in Bologna. The Bologna Children’s Book Fair 2024 enthusiastically projects us towards the Frankfurt Book Fair 2024, the Fair's 76th edition, which will see Italy as Guest of Honour.
Kinder- und Jugendliteratur im Aufwind
Publishing trends

Continued growth of publishing for children and young people

The domestic market is expanding in terms of copies sold and their sales value. One in three translation rights sold worldwide relate to this sector.
„Verwurzelt in der Zukunft“: Unser Motto visualisiert in einer poetischen Illustration
Motto

“Roots in the future”: our motto represented in a poetic illustration

Past and future meet in the work of Lorenzo Mattotti: a radiant tomorrow blossoms from a great cultural tradition.