In frames of German-Georgian Year 2017 Georgian National Book Center and Georgian Publishers & Booksellers Association are honoured to invite you to:

OCTOBER 11

13:00 / Business Lunch, Speed-dating with Georgian Publishers / Georgian National Stand, Hall 5.0, Stand B100 
16:00 / Memorandum Signing Ceremony: GNBC – LTI.Korea / Medea Metreveli & Ko Young-il, Chanwoo Park / Georgian National Stand, Hall 5.0, Stand B100 

OCTOBER 12

11:00 / Press-Conference of Georgia Guest of Honour at the Frankfurter Buchmesse 2018 / Congress Center, C3, Illusion 2
16:00 / Presentation - Discussion - Georgian Classics Nikoloz Baratashvili & Grigol Robakidze / Speaker: Alexander Kartozia / Moderator: Christof Haacker / Publisher: Arco Verlag / Georgian National Stand, Hall 5.0, B100


OCTOBER 13

9:00 Business Breakfast / Informal meeting of FBM Summer Academy participants / Georgian National Stand, Hall 5.0, B100
16:30 German-Georgian Friendship year 2017/ Discussion followed by reception / Speaker: Lasha Bakradze / Moderator: Hans Grigoleit / Georgian National Stand, Hall 5.0, B100


OCTOBER 14

14:00 / LUCRECIA 515 Presentation-Discussion Lasha Bugadze / Moderator: Joachim Unseld / Publisher: Frankfurter Verlagsanstalt / LeseInsel – Independent Publishers Stage, Hall 4.1, D36
14:30 / THE CITY ON THE WATER & THE NIGHTINGALES OF ISFAHAN / Presentation-Discussion Nestan Nene Kvinikadze and Salome Benidze / Moderator: Barbara Weidle / Publisher: AvivA Verlag & Orlanda Verlag / LeseInsel – Independent Publishers Stage, Hall 4.1, D36
15:00 / DAGNY, OR A LOVE FEAST Presentation-Discussion Zurab Karumidze / Moderator: Stefan Weidle / Publisher: Weidle Verlag / LeseInsel – Independent Publishers Stage, Hall 4.1, D36
15:30 BESTSELLER Presentation-Discussion Beka Adamashvili / Moderator: Claudius Nießen / Publisher: Voland & Quist / LeseInsel – Independent Publishers Stage, Hall 4.1, D36
17:00 / DAGNY, OR A LOVE FEAST Presentation-Discussion Zurab Karumidze / Moderator: Barbara Weidle / Lesefest Open Books, Evangelische Akademie, Frankfurt, Römerberg 9


OCTOBER 15

15:30 / Frankfurter Buchmesse Guest of Honour Handover Ceremony / Guest of Honour Pavilion of France


OCTOBER 16

20:00 / LUCRECIA 515 Presentation-Discussion Lasha Bugadze / Moderator: Manana Tandashvili / Publisher: Frankfurter Verlagsanstalt / Romanfabrik, Hanauer Landstraße 186, 60314, Frankfurt am Main


BONN
October 16, 20:00 / DAGNY, OR A LOVE FEAST / Zurab Karumidze / Moderator: Barbara Weidle / Buchhandlung Böttger

BERLIN
October 17, 20:00 / DAGNY, OR A LOVE FEAST / Zurab Karumidze / Moderator: Barbara Weidle / Ocelot Buchhandlung Zofingen Literaturtage
October 22, 17:00 / The closing event of Zofingen Literaturtage / Outlook for Georgia: Nino Nadibaidze, Thomas Häusermann /Kunsthaus Zofingen Berlin
November 8 / BESTSELLER / Beka Adamashvili / Literaturhaus Berlin

UNNA
November 10, 20:00 / TOURIST’S BREAKFAST/ Zaza Burchuladze / Moderator: Alexa Christ, Interpreter: Nino Ivanishvili / Nicolaihaus, WestfälischesLiteraturbüro

VIENNA
November 12, 16:00 / DIANA ANPHMIADI / Kochbühne, Messe Wien, Hall D
December 9-10 / REZO CHEISHVILI Blaue Berge / Moderator Stefan Monhardt, Julia Dengg and Ekaterine Teti / The independent-bookfair ‘BuchQuartier’ / MuseumsQuartier, Museumsplatz 1

Switzerland – Translator’s seminar
The translator's house in Looren/Switzerland (www.looren.net, close to Zürich), translators from Georgia and Armenia, November 18-24 2017, co-financed workshop-Deutscher Übersetzerfonds and Georgian National Book Center. The seminar should be open for 6 or 7 translators with projects that are to be published in 2018. Seminar leader: Rosemarie Tietze, co-leader: Andrea Ott, Expert: Alexander Kartozia.



Program