CATALOGO FRANKFURT

Chile at Frankfurt 2022

For the eight consecutive year, Chile will participate at a new edition of the Frankfurt Book Fair, the main event of its kind in the world, thanks to the coordination between the Ministry of Culture, Arts and Heritage and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, through the Division of Cultures, Arts, Heritage and Public Diplomacy (DIRAC) and ProChile, in order to present the national editorial production at this important event.

This effort is part of the internationalization strategy of the publishing industry implemented jointly by the aforementioned institutions within the framework of the National Literacy and Book Policy.

Visit us at Stand G-81, Hall 4.1

Cultural program

Wednesday, October 19

12:00

Chilean women in Comics – Catalog 2021 We reveal 56 women who have been working in the graphic scene both in Chile and overseas. Presented by Sol Díaz (author), Vivian Lavín (Curator).

Location: Chilean Pavilion, Hall 4.1. Stand G-81 Language: Spanish/English

17:00

Opening of Chilean Booth

Sol Díaz (author) – Francisca Muñoz (Publisher)

After the opening the Ambassador María Magdalena Atria, cordially invites you to a reception with wine and chilean specialities

Location: Chilean Pavilion, Hall 4.1. Stand-G 81 Language: Spanish/English

Friday, October 21

20:45

Book launch La Zorra y el sapo (Füchsin und Kröter. 2022, Parallelalee) With Sol Díaz (author) and Lea Hübner (translator)

Location: OPEN BOOKS. Evangelische Akademie, Römer 9, 60311 Frankfurt Language: German/Spanish

Saturday, October 22

10:00

Social, Cultural and Political Challenges in Latinamerica – the author’s perspective

Authors from different Latin American countries debate their socio-cultural challenges from their respective regional contexts. To what extent do fiction and reality in their works touch on these issues of our time?

Participants: Sergio Missana (author, Chile), Aleixandre Vidal Porto (author, Brazil). Moderator: Victoria Torres.

Location: Frankfurt Pavillion Languages: Spanish/Portuguese/English

12:00

Book launch La Zorra y el sapo (Füchsin und Kröter. 2022, Parallelalee)

Presented by Sol Díaz (author), Vivian Lavín (journalist and literary Agent) and Lea Hübner (translator)

Location: Chilean Pavilion, Hall 4.1. Stand G 81 Language: Spanish/German

14:00

Book release Las muertes paralelas (The Transentients. 2021, McPherson & Company)

Participants: Sergio Missana (author), Bruce McPherson (editor) y Antonia Kerrigan (literary agent)

Location: Chilean Pavilion, Hall 4.1. Stand G 81

Language: English/German

Authors

Sol Díaz

Graphic Designer from Universidad de Chile, currently works as a freelance illustrator.

As an author, she has always shown interest in exploring topics such as freedom, identity and challenging what has been established by society.

She has published children’s books such as Pancha la chancha, graphic humor comics such us Bicharracas, ¿Cómo ser una mujer elegante? and La Zorra y el Sapo, and also has written graphic novels La Hoja Naranja and Nacer Bajo Tierra.

In the animation field, she created Telonio y sus demonios, a micro series which was aired in public broadcasting.

Sol also explored live drawing with a well-known jazz band called La Orquesta del Viento, and she has participated in several collective projects like the podcast La Polola, talking about art and creativity, and Revista Brígida a comic magazine made by women.

Contact Details

www.soldiaz.com soldiazcastillo@gmail.com

Publishing rights

VLP Agency vivianlavin@vlp.agency.cl

Selected works

La zorra y el sapo (Füchsin und Kröte, 2014)

This visual story by Sol Díaz sweats with humor and eroticism. It is a dialogue for young ladies: wet, intimate and hot. Two characters that are talked about so much here share their tastes, fantasies and fears. This is not a fable and it is not for children either. La Zorra y el Sapo will get more than a smile out of you.

¿Cómo ser una mujer elegante? (How to be an elegant woman?, 2014)

A questioning of the feminine and the conventional that seeks to explore the most recondite places of women’s nature.

What does it mean to be an elegant woman? A distinguished woman, endowed with grace, cultured, discreet and stylish? In these vignettes full of humour, sarcasm and irony, Sol Díaz displays a catalogue of answers to these questions that are far from those established by social conventions.

Because we have all been taught to be elegant, always smiling, decent, kind and discreet. We wear pearl necklaces, long dresses, petticoats, girdles and heels... but few know that within that elegance hides a wild, intuitive, free woman willing to ride her she-wolf without fear for life.

La hoja naranja (The orange leaf, 2012)

Fedora is a girl who feels at ease with her life until her surroundings –family, friends, school– start to change. Is everything that others do what she wants for herself?

Starting from that question, a delusional and fantastic journey begins that will take her along the most incredible paths of her consciousness and reality. It is the beginning of an adventure learning that, with the guidance of endearing and amazing characters, will end up helping her discover her own identity and free herself from the social ties that hide the real Fedora.

Authors

Sergio Missana

Sergio Missana is the author of the critically acclaimed novels El invasor (1997); Movimiento falso (2000), shortlisted for the Rómulo Gallegos International Prize; La calma (2005); El día de los muertos (2007); Las muertes paralelas (2010), published in 2021 in English as The Transentients, translation by Jessica Powell; El discípulo (2014); and Entremuros (2019). He has published the essays La máquina de pensar de Borges (2003), La distracción (2015) and Última salida (2021) focused on the humanities and the climate crisis; and the travelogue Lugares de paso (2012) in collaboration with photographer Ramsay Turnbull. He co-authored (with his daughters Maya and Sofia Missana) five children’s books.

Sergio Missana holds an MA and PhD in Spanish from Stanford University. He is a professor of Latin American Literature at the Stanford University Bing Overseas Studies Program in Santiago, Chile, and serves as executive director of the Climate Parliament, a global environmental NGO.

Contact details smissana@gmail.com

Publishing rights

Antonia Kerrigan

antonia@antoniakerrigan.com

Selected works

The Transentients (2021)

TRANSENTIENTS

In this bewitching novel, hailed by Carlos Fuentes as one of the most important Latin American Fictions of the new century, a man’s best-laid plans to restart his life collides with a force that defies rational understanding. With a propulsive plot and metaphysical mystery at its core, The Transentients explores the razor-thin demarcation between illusion and reality. This captivating story takes the form of a mystery: the aim to unravel the enigma of others is equivalent to a search for himself. This remarkable and disturbing novel, which tenses the ability of the word to sustain the truth of the story and takes the adventure of any narrative text to apply to the others to a limit, confirms the prominent place that the author occupies in the current panorama of Latin American fiction.

Las humanidades y la crisis climática (Last Exit: The Humanities and the Climate Crisis, 2021)

Last Exit addresses the climate crisis and exponential technologies from the perspective of the humanities. It synthesizes some of the dilemmas inherent to this time of waiting or apparent interregnum in which we live today, when a political and social order has reached its expiration date and the one destined to replace it has not yet manifested itself. Missana clearly exposes the state of the question around the processes of emergence, which articulate our relationship with the future; the optimistic and dystopian visions of what awaits us, the crisis of the humanities and their defense, articulated in six C’s: compassion, citizenship, critical thinking, creativity, complexity and human condition.

Entremuros (2019)

In a vast Latin American city, ravaged by incessant clan warfare, ravaged by huge mining operations and ruled by weak and inscrutable authorities, the body of a young woman is found in a vacant lot with a bullet in her head. The police, inefficient and corrupt, begin an investigation that seems to lead nowhere. With elements of crime novel and political allegory, Entremuros builds with a vigorous and subjugating prose a world in ruins, weaving together shards of the present: inequality, drug trafficking, environmental degradation and the erosion of democratic institutions. But among the ruins there is also room for altruism, hope and, perhaps, redemption.

Contact Details

Guido Arroyo González

arroyo.guido@gmail.com +56 9 96388973

https://alquimiaeditorial.cl/

Alquimia Ediciones

Alquimia is an autonomous publishing house that was officially born in 2011. We publish books on narrative, poetry, essay, chronicle, life diary and visual arts. Our catalogue is characterized by publishing experimental works that problematize literary genres, seeking careful editing and adding graphic details to the books. We operate as an abode for works that invite rereading, bringing together renowned and unpublished authors of different nationalities and eras. All we care about is the quality of the work. The symbolism of our name characterizes us. We believe that the art of editing demands a commitment to the materials that are in motion: the word, the culture, the image and the multiple possibilities that language gives.

We make the books we like to read.

Selected works

Space Invaders (2013)

Nona Fernández

ISBN: 978-956-9131-08-0

Papelucho Gay en Dictadura (2019)

Juan Pablo Sutherland

ISBN: 978-956-9974-52-6

Terremoto Blanco (2019)

Natacha Oyarzún

ISBN: 978-956-6188-06-3

Contact Details

Daniel Francisco Rojas Pachas

carrollera@hotmail.com +320483198264 (Belgium) https://www.danielrojaspachasescritor.com/

Cinosargo Press

Cinosargo Press is a Chilean publishing label based in Mexico and Belgium. We are a cross-border project with a catalog of one hundred twenty titles by Latin American authors. Cinosargo is a multimedia project that was born in 2003 in the northern border of Chile (Arica), frontier with Peru and Bolivia. Since 2010 we have become one of the Chilean independent publishers with the greatest projection and continuity.

Cinosargo covers the digital dissemination of art through its magazine, and the production and distribution of the printed book thanks to our publishing house and the organization of Fairs, Festivals and Congresses. You can visit our sites www. cinosargo.cl and www.cinosargoediciones.com

Our editorial team is led by Daniel Rojas Pachas, Milvia Alata and Gonzalo Geraldo.

Selected works

The thought of the poem (El pensamiento del poema) (2019)

Mario Montalbetti ISBN: 978-956-0936-10-3

Imago Mundi IV (2021) José Kozer ISBN: 978-956-9382-75-8

Becoming Island - Anthology of Chilean and Cuban poetry (2018)

Laura Domingo Agüero, Jamila Medina Ríos, Yessica Arteaga Ibal, Yosie Crespo, Elaine Vilar Madruga, Yanelys Encinosa Cabrera, Ketty Blanco, Elizabeth Reinosa Aliaga, Jessica Pérez Quesada, Zurisaday Gómez Torres, Iris Kiya, Francisca Pérez Morales, María Paz Valdebenito González, Daniela Catrileo, Ashle Ozuljevic Subaique, Roxana Miranda Rupailaf, Gladys González, Mariela Malhue, Marcela Parra, Mara Rita Villaroel. ISBN: 978-956-9382-56-7

Contact Details

Paula Barría Chateau

ediciones@metalespesados.cl + 56 2 26387597 www.metalespesados.cl

Metales Pesados

For 16 years, Metales Pesados has been building a supporting place for those texts that are necessary to fill the gaps of academic production. Specialized in essays, this emblematic publishing house intersects several areas of knowledge in its catalogue. Always with critical thoroughness and a language that tends to the bridge between the academic world and society. A consolidated publisher, reinforced by the resulting alloy from the joint labor of the firm and bookstores, it positions Chilean and Latin American works in the medium. The thorough critical review of its content; an aesthetic element that is carefully implicit: those are the elements that shape the character of Metales Pesados, the publishing house that supports the tradition of thought coming from this “other place”.

Selected works

Vida animal.

Figuraciones no humanas en el cine, la literatura y la fotografía (2022)

Valeria de los Ríos

ISBN 978-956-6048-94-7

Imaginación material (2022)

Andrea Soto Calderón

ISBN 978-956-6048-92-3

Enseñando a sentir. Repertorios éticos en la ficción infantil (2021) Macarena García González ISBN: 978-956-6048-46-6

Contact Details

Francisca Muñoz

direccion@editoresdechile.cl + 56 9 99176593 www.editoresdechile.cl

Editoriales de Chile

Editoriales de Chile (Publishing houses of Chile) is an association that is part of the International Assembly of Independent Publishers and its function is based on the defense and promotion of bibliodiversity. The association was founded in 2001 and today gathers more than 130 independent and academic publishing companies. Our main goals are to promote the development of the national and Latin American publishing industry; to stimulate the role of books and reading as an integral way of development of human beings as support for a civil society; to promote and perform activities that allow the opening and consolidation of different book markets, including editing and publishing, and producing book fairs, forum & seminars; finally, to promote and protect the writer’s and publisher’s rights, especially against piracy and illegal reproduction.

Akanni Ediciones

Akanni Ediciones is an independent Chilean publishing house of illustrated books and games that promote the creation and strengthening of bonds between readers and their environment. Akanni deals with themes of universal social interest, such as empathy, friendship, and integration.

Our books and games are keys to open conversations.

Mamá es magia (2022)

Franitza Zufic y Francisca Bravo

ISBN: 978-956-6108-16-0

Claraboya Ediciones

Claraboya Ediciones is a Chilean publishing house specialized in illustrated children’s and youth literature. We have received important recognitions from the Bologna Fair, the White Ravens 2021 list, from the International Youth Library; the Marta Brunet Prize 2021 Early Childhood, of the Ministry of Cultures, Arts and Heritage, the Municipal Prize of Literature of Santiago 2021 of Children’s Literature. We also have several recognized and finalist books for the Cuatrogatos Foundation USA and for the selection of DPictus UK. One of our titles was recognized in the Image of the Book Competition of Russia, 2022. Some of our books have been recommended by prestigious institutions such as Biblioteca Viva, Fundación Palabra, Troquel and La otra LIJ. Our catalog is available in Chile, Argentina, Colombia and the United States. We are in the most important international fairs and our catalog was selected by the agency Birds of a feather of Portugal, for rights sales.

Beso de buenas noches 2021 Andrés Kalawski, Joaquín Cociña

ISBN: 978-956-9825-07-1

Ediciones Zerö

Ediciones Zerö is a Chilean editorial focused on divulgation of Japanese culture and anime, to create dialogue between Chilean/Latin-American culture and the Japanese pop culture that has influenced our newest generations regarding art, sociological topics and political aspects.

¿Qué es la poesía? Introducción a la poesía clásica japonesa (2021) Marcela Chandía

ISBN: 978-956-09173-5-5

Editorial Rapanui Press

Editorial RAPANUI PRESS was created in Rapa Nui, Easter Island, in 1999. It is a heritage publisher specializing in books about Rapa Nui in the areas of archaeology, anthropology, history, ecology, photography, narrative and graphic novels.

Its directors are Andrea Araya and Eduardo Ruiz-Tagle, both graphic designers, Universidad del Pacífico.

Our publishing line is divided in four sections:

1. Reissue of classics

2. Edition and reissue of contemporary titles or new authors.

3. Edition of books for children and young people, graphic novel and photography.

4. Edition of books by Rapanui authors.

Historia de Rapa Nui (2022)

María Huke Fuentes and Catalina V. Hulsbus ISBN: 978-956-9337-57-4

Neón Ediciones

Neón Ediciones is an independent Chilean publisher formed in 2015 that has three editorial lines: namesake of emerging narrative that publishes Chilean and Latin American authors. Sonora, of literary classics in pocket format with new translations into Spanish, and Neón Singles, a fiction imprint of young Hispanic-American authors in EPUB format. We are part of the editorial group of Ebooks Patagonia.

Our director and editor is María Paz Rodríguez. The translator of the Sonora Collection is Antonio Díaz Oliva. Our editorial assistant is Katherine Hoch.

María y el fuego (2021)

Carmen García Palma ISBN: 978-956-9984-22-8

Planeta Sostenible

Since 2012, the objective of Planeta Sostenible has been very clear, and it is to contribute to the educational system and the conscience of the children with challenging content, a disposition to preserve the environment, social justice, feminism, and our First Nations. Through innovation it has been able to transcend borders to generate debate, having always in mind the living beings that inhabit our planet today and those that would inhabit it tomorrow, with a sound perspective on natural and cultural heritage, and sustainable development. We produce printed books, digital educational resources, audio books and didactic material. We work with multidisciplinary teams of designers, illustrators, writers, scientists, historians, educators, digital programmers and screenwriters. We have received awards for our picture books for childhood and youth. Between 2016 and 2021 we distributed more than 800,000 books to the Chilean education system.

El espíritu del agua (2020)

Author: Rafael Rubio ISBN: 978-956-6050-23-0

Sa Cabana Editorial

Sa Cabana is an independent Chilean publishing house, aiming to produce innovate editorial material, mainly focused on issues related to expression and graphic representation in several disciplines. Since 2009 we have published texts and graphic material from architecture specialized Chilean authors.

Mi vida bajo las estrellas: Una autobiografía de Galina Balashova, arquitecta del Programa Espacial Soviético (2022)

Author: Phillip Meuser ISBN: 978-956-9082-33-7

Tríada Ediciones

Tríada Ediciones was born in 2013 from our passion and interest in enriching the publishing world with new authors, in genres such as science fiction, fantasy and young adult romance. We work side by side with new authors to enhance their works and pave the way for their literary career.

El fin de las flores (2018)

Author: Maikel Loyola Sandoval

ISBN: 978-956-9362-16-3

ULLA Books

Created five years ago, ULLA (books for fun) has published twelve illustrated books for children. Innovation in formats, high quality of design and printing, outstanding authors and the best illustrators have been the hallmarks of ULLA. In 2018, the publishing house won the Marta Brunet Prize with its first book, El niño que cuenta al infinito, by Francisca Yáñez, and was later selected with its book La ballena que imaginaba, among the 100 Recommended of the 2021 CuatroGatos Foundation Prize (participants of all of Ibero-America). The hallmark of ULLA books is quality and innovation.

DODO

Dodo no tiene dientes (2021)

Author: RestoDeLaTribu (Raúl Menjíbar)

ISBN: 978-956-6113-03

Publishing Agencies

Contact Details

Name: Adrián Puentes

E-mail: adrian@puentesagency.com Phone: +569 6918 1267 Website: www.puentesagency.com

Puentes Agency

Puentes Agency is a literary agency based in Chile that represents Latin American writers and illustrators, including Benjamín Labatut, Margo Glantz, Mario Bellatin, Alberto Montt, Paloma Valdivia, and Isol.

Our mission is to promote our authors’ careers internationally, ensuring that their works reach the largest number of readers around the world.

Authors represented by Puentes Agency

Benjamín Labatut

Benjamin Labatut was born in Rotterdam, Netherlands, in 1980. He spent his childhood in The Hague, Buenos Aires, and Lima, and at the age of fourteen, he settled in Santiago, Chile. His two first books, La Antártica empieza aquí (2012) and Después de la luz (2015) were published in Mexico and Chile. The former was awarded with the Caza de Letras Award given by the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, and The Municipal Prize in Santiago for Best Story Collection published in Chile in 2012. When We Cease to Understand the World (2020), Labatut’s third book, has become an international success. It has been translated into more than 20 languages, and was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize and the National Book Award in the category of Best Book Translated into English. His upcoming book, The Maniac, will be published by some of the most prestigious publishing houses around the world.

Featured titles

Un verdor terrible (When We Cease to Understand the World, 2020)

Anagrama, Spain

ISBN: 978-843-3998-97-2

La piedra de la locura (The Stone of Madness, 2021)

Anagrama, Spain ISBN: 978-843-3916-55-6

The Maniac (Not published yet)

Anagrama, Spain

Margo Glantz

Margo Glantz (1930) is a Mexican novelist, essayist, critic, and academic. After receiving her Ph.D. from The Sorbonne, she started her career in academia, writing several essays on Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz which now are regarded as canonical texts. Nevertheless, during her later years, Margo has turned to fiction. Her books have been published by prestigious publishing houses such as Anagrama and Sexto Piso, and have been translated into more than seven languages, including French, English, Portuguese, Italian and Bulgarian. Margo Glantz has been granted the Guggenheim Fellowship and the Rockefeller Scholarship, as well as three Doctorates Honoris Causa, and several literary awards, such as the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize in 2003, the Juan Rulfo Prize in 2010, and the 2022 Carlos Fuentes International Prize.

Featured titles

El Rastro (The Wake, 2022) Anagrama, Spain ISBN: 978-843-3968-36-4

Doscientas ballenas azules y cuatro caballos (Two Hundred Blue Whales and Four Horses, 2021)

Los Libros de La Mujer Rota, Chile

ISBN: 978-956-9648-60-1

Sólo lo fugitivo permanece (Only the Fugitive Remains, 2022) El cuenco de plata, Uruguay ISBN: 978-987-4489-52-4

Isol

Isol Misenta was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1972. She is a writer and illustrator who has 24 titles published all around the world, which have been translated into 17 languages. Some of her most well-known works include The Balloon (2002), Petit, the Monster (2006), Nocturne (2011), Daytime Visions (2015), and Impossible (2018). Isol’s work has been internationally recognized with the Golden Apple Award in 2003, as a finalist of the Hans Christian Andersen Award in 2006 and 2007, and in 2013 with the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award (ALMA), one of the biggest awards in children’s literature worldwide.

Featured titles

Petit, el monstruo (Petit, the Monster, 2006) Calibroscopio, Argentina ISBN: 987-1801-718

Nocturno: Recetario de Sueños (Nocturne: Dream Recipes, 2011) Fondo de Cultura Económica, Mexico

ISBN: 978-607-1606-52-5

La costura (Lila and the Seam of the World, 2021) Fondo de Cultura Económica, Argentina ISBN: 978-987-7193-01-5

Publishers represented by Puentes Agency

Ediciones Liebre

Ediciones Liebre creates books and APPs focused on early childhood. Their publications innovate in formats (accordion, pop-up) using poetry and humor. Founded by the illustrator Paloma Valdivia and the editor Mónica Bombal, this Chilean company has 17 books and 3 APPs based on the Pikabú series (Poop!, Tweet!, and Crack!)

Their book Poop! by Beatriz Giménez de Ory and Carles Bellesteros was part of the White Raven List in 2019. Furthermore, the entire Piakabú collection was awarded the Medal Colibrí that same year, and in 2020, their book Crack! was awarded the Premio Fundación Cuatrogatos.

Featured titles

¡Crack! (Crack!, 2018)

ISBN: 978-956-0915-41-2

El bosque (The Forest, 2022)

ISBN: 978-956-0915-46-7

El mar (The Sea, 2022)

ISBN: 978-956-0915-47-4

Contact Details

Vivian Lavín Almazán vivianlavin@vlp.agency +34 637117669 www.vlp.agency

VLP Agency

We are an agency that seeks to take our clients to the best markets in the world. We represent 23 writers and illustrators and 20 publishers from Chile, Peru and Spain, whose books we have already sold in Europe, Latin America and Asia, where we have a special focus, in countries such as China, Korea, and Vietnam. Our agency has vast experience and knowledge of the Latin American market, due to the trajectory of our founder, journalist Vivian Lavín, host for 20 years of the literary radio program Vuelan las Plumas on radio Universidad de Chile.

Authors represented by VLP Agency

Paula Ilabaca

Writer, teacher and editor. Master in Higher Education, Bachelor in Hispanic American Language and Literature, Bachelor in Education and Teacher of Spanish. She received the Pablo Neruda Award 2015, the Floral Games Award 2014 and the Critics of Literary Press Award in Chile UDP 2010. She has twice received the Literary Creation Scholarship awarded by the National Book and Reading Council in Chile. Among her publications we find in poetry Peninsulas, RIL Editores (2019), The Loose Pearl, Editorial Cuarto Propio (2009) and the novel The Rule of Nine, Emecé (2015). She is the founder of the micro-editorial Cástor y Pólux. She is dedicated to teaching and literary workshops.

Featured Titles

Closed Road (2022)

LOM Ediciones, Chile

ISBN: 978-956-00-1514-3

Olea

Illustrator, cartoonist and designer Francisco Javier Olea (Chile, 1972) is recognized for his lucid humor and talent. Olea has worked for many years in the press and has collaborated for the worlds of music, literature, and short films. He has published books for Children and anthologies with his weekly humor vignettes in Chile and Mexico. His most important works are “Portraits”, illustrations of different celebrities and historical figures; “Oleísmos” in which he has given expression to graphic humor; and six books of his authorship, ranging from social humor to graphic novels. In 2012, in recognition of his career and undeniable talent, he received the Altazor Award of the National Arts in the category of Design and Illustration.

Featured Titles

Useless memory song (2022)

Written by Sara Bertrand with illustrations by Olea Escrito con Tiza, Chile

ISBN: 978-956-6049-29-6

Pilar Hurtado

Pilar Hurtado Larraín is Chilean, but grew up in Peru. A journalist, with a master’s degree in literature and a diploma in publishing, she has been writing about gastronomy since 2000. She has published cookbooks for children and adults. Grandma’s dining room is her first fiction book. She currently collaborates with her articles in different media in Chile and publishes her restaurant reviews and criticisms on her Instagram @lacomensala.

Featured Titles

Grandma´s dining room (2022) Kalandraka, España

ISBN: 978-84-1343-172-7

Publishers represented by VLP Agency

Muñeca de Trapo Ediciones

Chilean publisher with great aspirations. They love books and seek to instill this same passion in each of the people who take their titles in their hands. Through the narration of words and images we aspire to reflect the reality that surrounds us, but also to open windows to infinite and vast worlds that end where the reader’s imagination ends.

Featured Titles

La solución (2022)

Adriana Keselman

ISBN: 978-956-9829-32-1

A new neighborhood 2021 María José Arce - Josefina Hepp ISBN: 978-956-9829-23-9

IBBY Chile 2022 Winner

The Boy of El Plomo Hill 2022 César Sandoval - Gabriela Germain ISBN: 978-956-9829-23-9

The Best Books for Children of The Book Bank of Venezuela Winner Informative Books Category 2022

La Bonita Ediciones

Young Chilean publisher of great prestige and success. Its Conscious Citizen collection was awarded by IBBY-Chile for its quality and innovation. This collection was sold in Korea, Vietnam and Mexico. He arrives in Frankfurt to present a new collection called Knowing and Thinking. Its editorial director is Gabriela Precht.

Featured Titles

Me, a sustainable promoter. Build a conscious life with our environment (2020)

Written by Pamela Bravo with illustrations by Gabriela Lyon

ISBN: 978-956-9844-09-6

IBBY Chile 2021 Winner

Thinking and Us. Learn to discuss, deliberate, and have a judgement of your own (2022)

Written by Rodrigo Lara Serrano with illustrations by Sole Sebastián

ISBN: 978-956-9844-43-0

Philosophy and Us. A story made of more questions than answers (2022)

Written by Lorena Herrera with illustrations by Joceline Pérez

ISBN: 978-956-9844-45-4

Kalandraka Editora

April 2 –International Children’s and Youth Book Day– 1998 marks the beginning of Kalandraka’s history, with the motto “Books to dream” and the goal of offering works of the best aesthetic and literary quality. Initially publishing in Galician with a commitment to the linguistic normalization of this language, Kalandraka is a multilingual project that currently publishes in Spanish, Galician, Catalan, Euskara, Portuguese, Italian and English.

Self-created illustrated albums, adaptations of traditional stories, recovery of LIJ classics, books for pre-readers, easy-to-read books, book-records, poetry and art are the main lines of work that make up a live and diverse catalogue. With the addition of the FAKTORÍA K DE LIBROS seal, the range of readings is extended to literary fiction, essays, popular science and unique publications.

Featured Titles

Selva (2021)

Marina Gibert

ISBN: 978-84-1343-111-6

14th Compostela International Prize for Picture Books 2021

Milu´s dog (2019)

Mariann Máray

ISBN: 978-84-8464-201-5

12th Compostela International Prize for Picture Books 2019

Translation Support Program for Foreign Publishers

The Program is managed by the Chilean Ministry of Foreign Affairs, through its Division of Cultures, Arts, Heritage and Public Diplomacy (DIRAC), which aims to disseminate the work and thought of Chilean authors abroad, by publishing their works in other languages.

Literary works may be fiction or non-fiction, in the genres of novel, short story, poetry, essay, dramaturgy, graphic narrative and memory writers (epistolary, chronicles, autobiographies, biographies).

Works to be translated must be from Chilean authors, and have been previously published. The translation of unpublished material will not be financed.

The amount requested for the translation shall not exceed four thousand US dollars (US$ 4,000).

Contact details

• Alejandra Chacoff

• Program Manager

• achacoff@minrel.gob.cl

Institutional Contacts

Ministry of Foreign Affairs ProChile

ProChile is a government institution of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs that connects Chilean exporters with international demand. ProChile has 57 offices in 45 countries around the world and 16 regional offices in Chile, which have the experience and tools to enhance the export sector and position Chile´s attributes in international markets.

Germán Vergara

Trade Commissioner ProChile Germany gvergara@prochile.gob.cl

Drina Bascón

Senior Trade Advisor ProChile Germany dbascon@prochile.gob.cl

DIRAC

The Division of Cultures, Arts, Heritage and Public Diplomacy (DIRAC) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is responsible for disseminating, promoting and enhancing the cultural artistic activity of Chile abroad. Its focus, regarding literature, is to highlight Chilean literary works and writers abroad. DIRAC also offers a translation support program to enhance the translation of Chilean works into other languages.

Erwan Varas

Chief at DIRAC evaras@minrel.gob.cl

Alejandra Chacoff

Head of literature and heritage at DIRAC achacoff@minrel.gob.cl

Ministry of Culture, Arts and Heritage

The Chilean Ministry of Culture, Arts and Heritage aims to formulate and implement policies, plans and programs that contribute to the harmonious, pluralistic and equitable development of culture and heritage throughout Chile and the world. Through the National Council for Books and Literacy, it aims to support the internationalization of publishers and their writers.

Gerardo Valle

Head of the Chilean International Book Promotion Programme gerardo.valle@cultura.gob.cl