The London Book Fair (LBF), in partnership with The Publishers Association (PA), and CONACULTA and CANIEM in Mexico, has announced the Mexico Market Focus Professional Programme for LBF 2015. The programme was announced in London at the Mexico Market Focus: Rights Forum hosted by The London Book Fair, British Council and The Publishers Association.
LBF Mexico's Market Focus is the twelfth Market Focus programme. It encompasses almost 16 months of planned activity, centring on activity at The London Book Fair itself on April 14-16, 2015. The Professional Programme will hear from the cream of Mexican publishing community in a series of business-to-business events, and it will include many more matchmaking opportunities for international and Mexican publishers. Confirmed speakers from Mexico include representatives of Caniem, Conaculta, FCE, Planeta and Sexto Piso.
Alongside the Professional Programme, Market Focus Mexico will also enjoy a rich Cultural Programme, featuring contemporary writers from Mexico, which will be curated for LBF by The British Council, in partnership with CONACULTA, CANIEM and other partners in Mexico.
The London Book Fair Market Focus programme has been very successful for previous countries and regions who have participated, leaving a long legacy of success and increased publisher links across the world. When Turkey was Market Focus in 2013, Bloomsbury acquired two novels from a Turkish author, Hasan Ali Toptaş, and a leading Turkish agency, Kalem Agency, sold rights to several authors including Hakan Gunday and Çiler İlhan. In 2012, China's Bi Feiyu sold rights to his work Massage to Penguin and Tie Ning, sold The Bathing Girls to Macmillan.
