(ANSA) - ROME, 08 SEPT - The 2020 edition of Buchmesse will take place online and with events in the city of Frankfurt from 14 to 18 October, not in the traditional physical formula with stands and exhibitors.
It will be a special edition, announced on the Frankfurt International Book Fair website, which will feature authors, speakers and personalities such as Irvine Welsh, John Niven, Karin Slaughter, DonWinslow, Elizabeth Gilbert, Bov Bjerg, Cornelia Funke for the live program in the city and online. , ChillyGonzales, Francesca Melandri.
About 80 events within the Bookfest City.
The traditional physical formula of the book fair has been canceled due to the pandemic.
"The cancellation of the physical part of the Frankfurt Book Fair for 2020 is a choice that saddens us and that gives a measure of the challenges that publishing has had to face and face this year due to the Covid-19 emergency", commented the president of the Italian Association of Publishers-Aie Ricardo Franco Levi.
"Our commitment to the participation of Italy as a guest of honor in 2024 remains confirmed and indeed reiterated in an even stronger way - underlines Levi, according to the agreements signed with the Francofort Fair by the Minister for Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism , Dario Franceschini, and who will see our country at the center of the interest of publishing and of European and international culture ".
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