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Frankfurt Book Fair Opens
By The Northstar Desk, Newsroom
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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.
One of the major conversations this year is the growing tension between the use of generative AI in publishing and concerns over copyright and authors’ rights.
Publishers, agents and rights buyers gather in Frankfurt this week, with Czech literature in the spotlight.
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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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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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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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The Texas-based publisher of international literature brings one of Europe’s most celebrated novelists to English readers.
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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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