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A fresh Tuesday edition of our Newsletter is here for you. We are well into the New Year and had a successful week at the New Delhi World Book Fair 2016. The third edition of the Globalocal Talk was held on 13th January, where we witnessed some exciting presentations and engaging talks.
Catch up with a short roundup of our activities at the New Delhi World Book Fair 2016.
Happy Reading!
Best wishes from the GBO Team
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GBO’s 3 edition of GLOBALOCAL Talk concludes successfully with an evening of Beer & Banter, all during the New Delhi World Book Fair 2016
Like every year at the New Delhi World Book Fair, the German Book Office New Delhi [the South Asia node of the Frankfurt Book Fair] set up its stand and organised interactions and discussions to add to the scope and excitement which characterizes the time around the book fair. This year’s GLOBALOCAL Talk, held in Hall 7 of Pragati Maidan on 13th January 2016, with its international markets focus was a success and allowed for an insider’s view of publishing markets like France, China, Germany, and UK to be shared amongst a full house audience of publishers, distributors, agents and authors, at the New Delhi World Book Fair.
“GLOBALOCAL Talks” aims to bring together the most impressing practitioners from the trade to present their ideas and experiences. Since Ideas are the most powerful tools people have, this is an endeavour to present these ideas and stimulate conversations about the changing face of the content industry. And this was evident at the 3rd edition of GLOBALOCAL Talk which revolved around the theme - Go Global – Rights, Distribution and content! The session had insights and top tips on how to successfully contract rights with global publishers from France, Germany, China, UK etc. Speakers from France, Germany, UK gave presentations which led to discussions on Trading Rights Globally. To bring up the finale, there was David Taylor, SVP, Ingram Content Group who spoke to demystify the global distribution strategy for local publishers.
The day of GLOBALOCAL Talk culminated in an evening of Beer & Banter at the Goethe Institut/Max Mueller Bhavan New Delhi where a lovely collection of books on beer culture, flown in by GBO from Germany, were showcased and accompanied by an exhilarating talk on beer and art of brewing by Rahul Singh [CEO, Founder of The Beer Café]. Professionals from the world of publishing and allied industries enjoyed this light evening and engaged in some interesting discussions as well.
The rest of the New Delhi World Book Fair was a whirlwind of activities, with visits and stand meet-ups, like the ones conducted at the German Book Office stand in Hall 7d to highlight possibilities at Frankfurt Book Fair 2016 and showcase selected German titles for rights exchanges.
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Every year, the Frankfurt Book Fair puts together a number of book collections on different topical subjects. These are currently being discussed in Germany and also noted with interest in other countries. The 2016 collections include children’s books, new literary releases, a special collection on Beer and Post war memoirs. This years' collection is curated by Literaturhaus Hamburg and Professor Dr. Rainer Moritz has chosen the year’s most important novels, stories and poetry volumes. They all have in common contemporary impressions of humour, family or politics. The most obvious feature of literature in 2015 has undoubtedly been the move by many writers to examine political and economic affairs, and to draw on 20th-century history in an attempt to understand current trends. This manifests itself with particular immediacy in depictions of refugee existences in many of the novels in this collection. The collection was showcased at the recently concluded NDWBF 2016 and GBO New Delhi can be contacted for more information, rights and sample translations.
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