There's a national 'Guest of Honour' at each Frankfurt Book Fair -- this year it's Finland -- and, over the past years and months, they've built up a roster of upcoming GoHs: 2015: Indonesia; 2016: Netherlands and Flanders; and 2018: Georgia, but until now they'd left open the 2017 slot.
Now comes confirmation -- first reported by Odile Benyahia-Kouider and Grégoire Leménager at Le Nouvel Observateur -- that France has, indeed, accepted the invitation to be Guest of Honour in 2017 -- their first time since 1989.
Now comes confirmation -- first reported by Odile Benyahia-Kouider and Grégoire Leménager at Le Nouvel Observateur -- that France has, indeed, accepted the invitation to be Guest of Honour in 2017 -- their first time since 1989.