Frankfurt Book Fair
8 stories
Why write with the archipelago on fire?
‘Literature is the slower type of art which is consumed in seclusion, a great antidote against the flood of information.’
‘The Imagination peoples the air’: PHL prepares for literary spotlight at Frankfurt Book Fair
As Guest of Honour at the 2025 Frankfurter Buchmesse (FBM), the Philippines is boldly scripting a new chapter for its literature on the global stage.
Feeling Rizal hover ‘In the Air’ tonight in Heidelberg
Rizal on bread, cheese and forever potatoes: retracing his Heidelberg addresses with Ambeth Ocampo, from the eye clinic to the river.
Literature both spectral & realistic: PH gears up for primetime in 2025 Frankfurt book fair
The Philippines takes the Guest of Honour scroll from Italy for 2025: Patrick Flores and Stanley Ruiz on the pavilion, and a line from Sisa’s chapter.
Frankfurter Buchmesse 2024: Books strike like printed lightning as ‘imagination peoples the air’
Great literature is about this very metamorphosis, about the wings that we all have, even if we no longer know we have them.
Salman Rushdie at 75th Frankfurt Buchmesse: ‘It’s even more important to create beauty in a time of ugliness’
A year after the stabbing, Rushdie takes the Peace Prize in Frankfurt and talks about putting fear in a little box in the corner of the room.
Frankfurter Buchmesse 2023: Why books matter in a time of war & the ongoing assault on truth
Books are being banned, censored and even burned in parts of America. In Germany, they hold the world’s largest trade fair for books.
The Philippines is Frankfurt Book Fair 2025 Guest of Honour
Ten years after Indonesia, the Philippines lands the Frankfurt Book Fair Guest of Honour slot. We want this, we dreamt of this, we have earned this.