French authors hope to impose their pen at the world's biggest publishing event, which opens its doors this Wednesday. In the aisles of the 75th Frankfurt Fair ("Frankfurter Buchmesse" in good German), the 200 French publishing houses present until Sunday have 1,000 m2 to promote our literary culture throughout the states. "French remains the second most translated language in the world in the world in the world of books, (far) behind English," Vincent Montagne, president of the Syndicat national de l'édition (SNE), told Le Figaro. France has many assets in the eyes of readers, with some 14,342 titles exported abroad last year, between transfers of rights for translation and co-publishing. "In troubled times when uncertainties multiply and geopolitical tensions intensify, there is this idea that the French humanities and social sciences, our great thinkers, our literature...
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