From October 16-20, 2024, the Mondadori Group will participate in the 76th edition of the Frankfurt Book Fair, where Italy will be Guest of Honor for the first time in 36 years. This prestigious event represents an important showcase for Italian publishing, with more than 230 publishing houses and literary agents involved. We will be present with our publishing houses and several leading authors in Hall 5.0, together with other important compatriot publishers and the Italian Collective Stand organized by ICE-Agenzia in collaboration with the Italian Publishers Association (AIE).

The space dedicated to Italian publishers, which this year reaches record dimensions with 668 square meters and 131 exhibitors, will be inaugurated on Oct. 16 at 10:30 a.m. in the presence of the Italian and German Ministers of Culture, Alessandro Giuli and Claudia Roth, together with the Italian Ambassador to Germany Armando Varricchio, ICE-Agenzia Director General Lorenzo Galanti, AIE President Innocenzo Cipolletta and fair director Juergen Boos.

The Frankfurter Buchmesse program includes a packed schedule of meetings and round tables involving all professionals in the publishing supply chain. The Mondadori Group’s participation in this important event represents a unique opportunity to strengthen the international presence of its authors and promote the quality and diversity of Italian publishing production.

Here is the full program of Italy Guest of Honor 2024

Mondadori Group publishing houses at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2024

During the fair, the Group’s leading publishing houses, including Mondadori, Einaudi, Rizzoli, Piemme, Sperling & Kupfer, De Agostini, Star Comics and Mondadori Electa, will be present with meetings and appointments. New publishing titles will be presented and internationally established authors will be promoted, as well as new emerging voices.

The presence at Buchmesse is a tangible sign of the Mondadori Group’s ongoing commitment to enhancing Italian creativity and literature globally. With the support of ICE and AIE, dialogue is promoted among industry professionals from around the world to help consolidate Italy’s position as a leading player in the international publishing scene.

“AIE has promoted a program of professional meetings that gives voice to the entire book supply chain, recounts its excellence, and confronts great international professionals: Italia Ospite d’Onore will thus be the story of the authors who make Italian literature known abroad, but also the story of a strong, innovative and future-oriented industry that works on technological frontiers and questions the changes our profession faces, in a continuous dialogue with the rest of the world.” Innocenzo Cipolletta, President of AIE.