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Publication details [#50689]

Körkkö, Helmi-Nelli. 2020. How Many Authors Does Finland have?: The Frankfurt Book Fair as a platform for the export of literature and culture. In Kölling, Angela, ed. Visibility and Translation. Special issue of Imaginations. Journal of Cross-Cultural Image Studies 11 (3): 165–181.
Publication type
Article in Special issue
Publication language
English
Journal WWW

Abstract

The Frankfurt Book Fair is the world’s largest literature and media event. Every year the book fair offers an internationally recognized platform to a guest country in order to present its literature and culture. Finland was the Guest of Honour in 2014. This article examines Finland’s presentation to discover what kind of platform the Frankfurt Book Fair is and what the Guest of Honour status provides for countries exporting literature and culture. It assesses the means by which Finnish literature is exported, which authors managed to catch the attention of German media, and what the overall impact of the presentation was.
Source : Based on abstract in journal