The Special Programme 2024

The International Book Arsenal Festival together with the Frankfurter Buchmesse and the Goethe-Institut Ukraine are pleased to announce the publishers selected to participate in the third season of the Special Program for Publishers from Ukraine and Neighboring Countries The publishers, editors, rights managers and literary agents from Ukraine, Armenia, Azerbaijan, the Czech Republic, Georgia, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Hungary will:

• participate in the Frankfurter Buchmesse 2024,
• join networking events,
• be participants in seminars from professionals of the German book market.

To participate in the third season of the program, which will take place on October 14-19, 15 participants, 7 of whom are from Ukraine, were selected, namely:

  • Nadiia Velychko, ACCA
  • Maryana Kondzelka, Irbis Comics
  • Slava Svitova, Creative Women Publishing
  • Oksana Babenko, My Bookshelf
  • Svitlana Smilian, One More Page
  • Tetiana Polonik, punkt publishing
  • Anastasiia Bilousova, Rodovid

Foreign participants:

  • Liana Shiroyan, Armenia, EDGE
  • Barbora Baronová, Czech Republic, wo-men
  • Nuka Gambashidze, Georgia, Sulakauri
  • Bence Szenderák, Hungary, Jelenkor
  • Bayan Kabylash, Kazakhstan, Nomad Culture Foundation
  • Anita Musiol, Poland, Wydawnictwo Pauza
  • Vlad Adascalitei, Romania, Storia
  • František Malík, Slovak Republic, Brak

The Special Program for Publishers from Ukraine and Neighboring Countries is a professional program launched by the Frankfurter Buchmesse in 2022 as part of a strategic partnership and in cooperation with the International Book Arsenal Festival and the Goethe-Institut Ukraine.