Meet Team World Editions at BookExpo 2019!
We have an exciting schedule planned. Please stop by booth 833A and say hello!
World Editions promotes voices from around the globe by publishing books from many different countries and languages into English translation. Through our work, we aim to enhance dialogue between cultures, foster new connections, and open doors which may otherwise have remained closed.

World Editions has offices in New York, London, and Amsterdam and publishes long-established authors, such as recent winner of the Alternative Nobel Prize, Maryse Condé, and the internationally acclaimed Paolo Maurensig, alongside promising debut novelists, such as rising stars Adeline Dieudonné and Pierre Jarawan.
Wednesday, May 29th
2:00 pm in booth 833A 
Celebrate Dutch Literature! Stop by the World Editions booth at 2 pm to learn about the Dutch and Belgian tradition Boekenweek. Stroopwafels will be served! 
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm on the main stage
Discuss your next author event with Christine during the Publicist Speed Dating session on the main stage. 
During the hugely popular Publicist Speed Dating session, ABA member bookstore owners, managers, and event coordinators meet one-on-one with publicists from several publishers. During the timed “dates,” booksellers have the chance to promote their stores and discover what publicists look for when planning author tours.
3:00 pm in booth 833A
Don't miss our galley giveaway of Fall 2019 lead title Welcome to America by Swedish author Linda Boström Knausgård! 
In Welcome to Amercia, we meet a family on the brink of disaster: the young daughter blames herself for her father’s death and has stopped talking. This award-winning European bestseller by Karl Ove Knausgård's ex-wife has been widely praised by media.
  • "Knausgård’s story of a family in crisis is shocking and imaginative." —Jury, August Prize
  • "A triumph." —Le Monde
    "A tender novel about a mute girl: gentle, sensitive, minimal, concise, subtle, and brutal." —Spiegel
    "A daring and disturbing novel. One will not soon forget the eleven-year-old narrator and her silence." —MDR Kultur
Thursday, May 30th
10:10 am - 10:50 am Indie Publisher Stage
World Editions title Real Life will be part of the Indie Insights program session showcasing First Novels and Mysteries. This international bestseller by French author Adeline Dieudonné is one girl’s bitingly funny coming-of-age tale within a violent, savage family. Galley giveaway! 
This French debut turned into a #1 bestseller with 180,0000 copies sold within the first 6 months of publication and went on to win multiple prestigious literary prizes including Prix du roman FNAC in rapid succession. Translation rights have now sold into 18 countries, and attendees of this session will have first access to advance readers copies of the English translation of what is sure to be an international bestseller. 
11 am in booth 833A
A Swiss village filled with aspiring writers. The publisher as the devil. Find out more about the just-released publishing satire A Devil Comes to Town by bestselling Italian author Paolo Maurensig. Finished copy giveaway!
PAOLO MAURENSIG is the Italian author of the two million-copy bestseller The Lüneburg Variation. In A Devil Comes to Town (May 7), the devil shows up in a small Swiss village of aspiring writers—in the form of a publisher. The 115-page publishing satire has been praised by Kirkus and Publishers Weekly as "a masterfully constructed gothic horror story designed to keep aspiring writers up at night" and "an entertaining exploration of the manifold powers—creative, confessional, corrupting—of fiction."
2 pm in booth 833A
Author galley signing with Gary Barker, author of The Museum of Lost Love (to publish in October 2019). Galley giveaway!
In The Museum of Lost Love, a couple discovers a museum that displays mementos of broken relationships in Zagreb, and a whirlwind summer of reconnecting with lost pasts follows. The novel emerges from the author's work in conflict zones, and is set against alternating backdrops of violent circumstances.
Author GARY BARKER is a leading global voice in engaging men and boys in advancing gender equality. He is the CEO and founder of the international organization Promundo, which has worked for 20 years in more than 40 countries to end violence against women. 
Friday, May 31st

10 am in booth 833A
Join us for a celebration of our German/Lebanese Spring title The Storyteller and find out how to join our global bookseller quote campaign. Baklava will be served!
In The Storyteller, Samir grows up in German as the son of Lebanese immigrant parents. He knows Lebanon only through his father's bedtime stories, as a place equal to paradise. When his father disappears without explanation, Samir travels to Lebanon to find him and explores the country and its complicated history along with the reader.
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