How Many Authors Does Finland have? The Frankfurt Book Fair as a Platform for the Export of Literature and Culture

Authors

  • Helmi-Nelli. Körkkö

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17742/IMAGE.VT.11.3.7

Keywords:

literary field, literary exports, cultural transfer, Frankfurt book fair, guest of honour

Abstract

The Frankfurt Book Fair is the world’s largest literature and media event. Every year the book fair offers an internationally recognized platform to a guest country in order to present its literature and culture. Finland was the Guest of Honour in 2014. In this article, I examine Finland’s presentation to discover what kind of platform the Frankfurt Book Fair is and what the Guest of Honour status provides for countries exporting literature and culture. This article assesses the means by which Finnish literature is exported, which authors managed to catch the attention of German media, and what the overall impact of the presentation was.

Author Biography

Helmi-Nelli. Körkkö

Dr. Helmi-Nelli Körkkö completed her PhD in Communication and Language Studies (German Language and Literature) at the University of Vaasa, Finland. Since moving from Finland to Germany in 2010 Dr. Körkkö has been working in various export organisations and projects in the fields of research, culture and trade. Currently she works as an Advisor at Business Finland in Berlin. In her current position she supports Finnish companies in their export activities in the German market focusing among others on consumer business.
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Published

2021-02-23

How to Cite

Körkkö, H.-N. (2021). How Many Authors Does Finland have? The Frankfurt Book Fair as a Platform for the Export of Literature and Culture. Imaginations: Journal of Cross-Cultural Image Studies, 11(3), 165–181. https://doi.org/10.17742/IMAGE.VT.11.3.7

Issue

Vol. 11 No. 3 (2020): Visibility and Translation / Visibilité et traduction

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