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2 unusual facts about Frankfurt Book Fair


Grace Deeb

It enjoyed great success and only 20 days after it release, Grace was asked to go to Frankfurt to represent the Arab world along with the Egyptian singer Amr Diab in the Frankfurt Book Fair and sang 3 songs from the album; Ghannali, Wallah Bitmoun and Heya which inspired the audience and made a good buzz which made the organizors release a cd of all participants in the book fair including the 3 songs that Grace sang.

John M. Feehan

At the Frankfurt Book Fair he secured the translation rights of German books on philosophy and religion that sold well.


Corpus Coranicum

In 2007 journalist-publisher Frank Schirrmacher wrote an article for the Frankfurt Book Fair suggesting that the Academy's preparation of a historically critical Qur'an edition had been motivated by Pope Benedict XVI's ill-received Regensburg lecture of 2006 and predicting that the Corpus Coranicum would spark similar outrage among Muslims, comparing it to the punishment of Prometheus for bringing fire to mankind.

Marie-Aude Murail

Simple, Tobias Scheffel's German translation of Simple, received the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis, bestowed by a jury of German teenagers during the Frankfurt Book Fair.

Monster: The Autobiography of an L.A. Gang Member

In 1992 at the Frankfurt Book Fair, Morgan Entrekin, publisher of Grove Atlantic Inc., announced that he had acquired world publication rights to Shakur's memoir, setting off a storm of interest in the book as an authentic document of the urban African-American experience.


see also

Saugata Mitra

It has received reviews at the London Book Fair, Frankfurt Book Fair and Johannesburg Book Fair.