International Publishing Fellows for 2020 announced
11 March 2020
Marion Sinclair, CEO of Publishing Scotland,
has announced the 10 publishers who have been chosen for the sixth
International Fellowship. This marks 55 publishers who have visited
the country to meet Scottish publishers and experience the culture
and landscape. This year's Fellows are:
- Dr. Cordelia Borchardt, S. Fischer Verlage,
Germany
- Sarah Cantin, St. Martin's Press, USA
- Johannes Engelke, Mosaik, Goldmann
Taschenbuch, Germany
- Nicolás Rodríguez Galvis, Éditions Métailié,
France
- Esther Hendriks, De Arbeiderspers/Singel
Publishers, The Netherlands
- Peter Joseph, Hanover Square
Press/HarperCollins, USA
- Talia Marcos, Keter Books, Israel
- Jean Mattern, Editions Grasset &
Fasquelle, France
- Andrea Stratilová, Albatros media,
Czechia
- Mark Tauber, Chronicle Prism, an imprint of
Chronicle Books, USA

The group will spend a week in Scotland at the end of August
meeting Scotland-based publishers, agents and writers in a varied
programme of events across the country including the Edinburgh
International Book Festival, dinner at Robert Louis Stevenson's
former home, a writer showcase in Glasgow and a trip to the
Highlands to meet publishers and writers based there.
The purpose of the visit is to help develop relationships
between the international publishing community and the Scottish
sector, facilitate rights selling and bring Scottish books to an
international audience. Previous fellows have acted as advocates
for the Scottish publishing scene; and the Scotland stand
receptions at the Frankfurt and London Book Fairs are now a hive of
international activity as Fellows reconnect with the Scottish
publishers. Sadly, Publishing Scotland's drinks reception will not
be going ahead this year due to the cancellation of London Book
Fair, but conversations continue regardless.
Scotland-based literary agent Jenny
Brown of Jenny Brown Associates, who has been involved
with the Fellowship since it was established in 2014, said: "The
Fellowship enables us to meet publishers and understand their
markets, introduce them to authors and for them to encounter the
vibrant literary scene here, in a way that brief 30 minute meetings
at book fairs can never achieve. And it works in terms of
selling rights, especially successful for our authors, both in
fiction and non-fiction."
Marion Sinclair, Chief
Executive of Publishing Scotland, said: "We are hugely privileged
to have this Fellowship Programme as a means of attracting
publishers to come and experience the industry here. Thanks to our
funders, in the six years since the Fellowship began, we will have
invited 55 senior international publishers to Scotland and given
our publishers, agents, and writers the chance to get to know them
in a more relaxed setting. It's part of a wider
internationalisation strand within our work and is paying dividends
in terms of rights deals made, and in the very important
relationships that have been forged between the Fellows and the
sector."
The award-winning programme from the network, trade and
development body for the book publishing sector in Scotland is
supported by funding from the arts body Creative Scotland.
Alan Bett, Literature Officer, Creative
Scotland, said: "The International Publishing Fellowship builds
relationships between publishers and therefore develops channels
for voices in Scottish literature to reach readers beyond the UK.
By facilitating rights sales in international territories, the
programme builds a more global readership and profile for our
authors, as well as contributing towards sustainable writing
careers."
PRESS RELEASE
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