Where Stories Become Legacy
The world’s largest publishing trade fair runs from October 7 to 11.
By The Northstar Desk, Newsroom
· 2 min read
The Frankfurt Book Fair, the most important annual meeting point for the international rights trade, takes place from Wednesday, October 7, to Sunday, October 11, 2026.
Czechia is this year’s Guest of Honour, bringing a programme of Czech writers, translators and publishers to the fair — a moment that traditionally drives a wave of new translations into English, German and other languages.
The Frankfurt Book Fair 2026 is now at the center of the international publishing calendar, with publishers, authors and literary professionals gathering around new books, rights deals and the future of publishing.
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Tara Gereaux, Michelle Good, Nicholas Herring, Nazanine Hozar and Patmeena Sabit will compete for the $100,000 award, to be presented on November 16.
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Natasha Stagg’s Sleeveless is a sharp, intimate portrait of New York’s fashion, art and media world in the 2010s, written from inside the machinery that makes images.
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Paul and Chelsea Tanner arrive in Paris for a fairytale honeymoon. A day trip into the countryside turns it into a case for the FBI, the CIA and French Intelligence.
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The world grows enough food for everyone, yet hundreds of millions go hungry. Dadhiram Basumatary tells The Northstar why he sees it as a crisis of justice, not supply.
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Canongate holds world rights and will publish in the UK in autumn 2028; Farrar, Straus and Giroux will publish in North America.
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Pulitzer Prize–winning author Barbara Kingsolver releases Partita today, October 6, 2026 — the story of a former piano prodigy whose quiet life in rural Tennessee is disrupted by a call from a former lover.
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