Claretian Publishers at the Frankfurt Book Fair

The Frankfurt Book Fair is the world's largest trade fair for books, based on the number of publishing companies represented. It is held annually in mid-October in Frankfurt, Germany.

Representatives from book publishing and multimedia companies from all over the world come to the Frankfurt Book Fair in order to negotiate international publishing rights and licensing fees. For five days (October 15-19) more than 7,000 exhibitors from over 100 countries and more than 286,000 visitors took part. The Frankfurt Book Fair is considered to be the most important book fair in the world for international deals and trading.

Claretian publishers from Argentina, Brazil, India, the Philippines, Spain and China attended this year´s Book Fair.

As Claretian publishers we have a common stand at the Book Fair; we share projects and ideas that we later translate into our own reality according to culture, country and language.

Claretian Editors: From left to right – Gustavo Larrazábal (Argentina),
Alberto (China), Luis Erlin (Brazil),
Benny Kanjirakatt (India), Benedict Dilag (Philippines),
Fernando Prado (Spain), and Silvia Villalta (Brazil).

Visiting the Book Fair, Cardinal Karl Lehmann took a look at our Spanish Bible, “La Biblia de Nuestro Pueblo,” and was happily surprised when he read the name of the translator, Luis Alonso Schökel, saying that he was his Bible professor.

Claretian Father Fernando Prado with Cardinal Giovanni Lajolo signing “Palabra y Vida 2009”: the liturgical readings with commentaries of José Antonio Pagola.