Globe and Mail Arts editor Judith Pereira spoke with three authors who made the trip to the Frankfurt Book Fair as Canada was Guest of Honour at this year’s event
Canada was Guest of Honour this year at the world’s largest trade fair for books, the Frankfurt Book Fair, where the country’s publishing industry, talent and culture were meant to be showcased. Although the organizers invited a couple of dozen Canadians to the event, only eight authors ended up attending. The lack of authors’ presence was mostly due to fear of getting COVID-19 and being unable to leave Germany for the quarantine period.
A lot of our programming here at the festival is looking at Indigenous voices. Are Germans surprised at that? Newfoundland always seems like a character in your books. Are you surprised about how it translates into German and how it would play here.
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