Litprom: Dialogue through literature
Since 40 years Litprom promotes literature and authors from Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Arab World.
LiBeratur Award 2022
The winner is Chisako Wakatake | Japan
Japanese author Chisako Wakatake is this year’s winner of Litprom’s LiBeraturpreis, an award honouring female writers from the Global South.
Sheikh Zayed Book Awards: Events at Frankfurt Book Fair 2021: still available on YouTube
Inside Publishing
Two panels:
»Publishing Arabic books — opportunities and challenges«
Lena Bopp discusses with Rasha al Ameer, Piero Salabè and Yasmina Jraissati.
»It’s only a children’s book – The complexity of the supposedly simple«
Leila Chammaa discusses with Ibtisam Barakat, Suleman Taufiq and Madjid Mohit.
World literature: Join the »Community«
Become a member of the association Litprom. Just write us an e-mail at: litprom@buchmesse.de
Litprom as your entry to the German book market
What can we do for foreign literary institutions in the Global South?
Are you currently trying to enter the German-speaking book market? Would you like to build-up your own business network and find your books being translated into German and being sold in German-speaking countries?
We provide you with an extended network ranging from German publishers specialized on international literature to renowned translators and important business multipliers for your market entry. We have been working in the field of promoting international literature to the German market for almost forty years and bring in the necessary network and work experience. Litprom is headed by the president of Frankfurt Book Fair, Juergen Boos, underlining the strong connection to and within the German book market.
Contact: Joscha Hekele
Phone: +49-(0)69 – 2102 250 | e-mail: hekele@buchmesse.de
Sheikh Zayed Book Award – 2023 winners
The Sheikh Zayed Book Award (SZBA) has announced the winners for its 17th edition, which recorded the highest number of submissions across all nine categories since the award’s launch.
Organised by the Abu Dhabi Arabic Language Centre (ALC), part of the Department of Culture and Tourism — Abu Dhabi (DCT Abu Dhabi), the 2023 edition received 3,151 submissions from 60 countries, including 22 Arab nations and 38 countries from around the world.
Important note for authors
Litprom is not a literary agency.
Please don't send us any manuscripts, we won't pass them on to German publishers or check them for a translation.
If you are looking for a suitable publishing house, feel welcome to search our Catalogue of Sources.
Weltempfang 2020
Topics that move us all. Exciting debates. Still online!
Weltempfang — the centre for politics, literature and translation — provides answers to current social questions and debates.
Litprom's contributions to the programme:
Africa and Europe — How can cooperation succeed? With Kenyan writer Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor
The Arab World and Europe: Flight and migration in children’s books
With Kirsten Boie and Ibtisam Barakat