This year's 'Guest of Honour' at the Frankfurt Book Fair will be Finland, in 2015 it will be Indonesia, and while 2016 and 2017 are apparently still up for grabs, they announced a few days ago that Guest of Honour 2018: contract signed with Georgia.
They may well need that extra time to prepare -- it's a pretty small country and market -- but they've already been doing an impressive job of increasing the visibility of Georgian literature abroad and with, for example, Dalkey Archive Press' Georgian Literature Series, the number of Georgian titles available in English has increased to ... well, at least a trickle.
Several Georgian books are under review at the complete review (including the three written-in-Georgian Dalkey titles):
There's also good information about many Georgian authors at 'literary agent for Georgian literature' Rachel Gratzfeld's site; she seems to have pretty much cornered that market .....
Several Georgian books are under review at the complete review (including the three written-in-Georgian Dalkey titles):
- Lasha Bugadze's The Literature Express
- Zaza Burchuladze's adibas
- Tamta Melaschwili's გათვლა
- Aka Morchiladze's Journey to Karabakh
There's also good information about many Georgian authors at 'literary agent for Georgian literature' Rachel Gratzfeld's site; she seems to have pretty much cornered that market .....