A new dedicated website has just launched for Turkish literature on the 2013 London Book Fair, where will probably be this year’s Market Focus country.
www.lbf2013marketfocusturkey.com is the indispensable guide to Turkey’s Market Focus programme on the London Book Fair 2013, where there’ll be plenty of enjoyable and informative events on Turkish literature, poetry and language and engaging exhibitions of publications and standard crafts. This website for Turkish literature and Turkey as Market Focus country on the London Book Fair 2013 contains full details of events, biographies of participating authors and what you could anticipate finding on the Turkey stand.
The website also gives information on:
Ø Other Turkish literary events within the UK. an entire programme of events putting Turkish literature under the spotlight is being held on the Yunus Emre Cultural Centre, in Maple Street W1, the British Library, LSE and other locations around London in addition to in Cardiff, Edinburgh and Liverpool until May accompanying the focal point on Turkey on the 2013 London Book Fair.
* Turkish literature and authors. The web site provides a comprehensive introduction to Turkish literature with downloadable books, an A-Z of participant authors and panellists and plenty of background information.
* Turkish publishing industry. There’s information on a lot of Turkish publishers and literary agencies at the side of their contact details.
* Turkish book market. A downloadable guide to the Turkish book industry gives useful statistics and details of book fairs in Turkey, grants, in addition publishing, translation, bookselling and writers associations.
* Book catalogues. Produced specially for the London Book Fair, downloadable book catalogues give detailed information on publications and their authors in quite a number fields, including children’s books, contemporary art and literature, in addition to catalogues detailing illustrators and publishers of Turkish books.