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Publishing Scotland has announced its new International Publishing Fellows for 2022, aiming to develop relationships between the international publishing community and the Scottish sector.
The nine fellows were chosen for the scheme in 2020 but their spaces were kept live and current for when the international book trade opened up again, the organisation said. This year marks the sixth international fellowship.
They are: Dr Cordelia Borchardt (S Fischer Verlage), Sarah Cantin (St Martin’s Press), Nicolás Rodríguez Galvis (Éditions Métailié), Esther Hendriks (De Arbeiderspers/Singel Publishers), Peter Joseph (HarperCollins US), Talia Marcos (Keter Books), Jean Mattern (Editions Grasset & Fasquelle), Andrea Stratilová (Albatros Media) and Mark Tauber (The Watermark Agency)
The group will spend a week in Scotland at the end of August meeting publishers, agents and writers in a varied programme of events across the country including the Edinburgh International Book Festival, dinner at Robert Louis Stevenson’s former home, a writer showcase in Glasgow and a trip to the Highlands to meet publishers and writers there.
Marion Sinclair, c.e.o. of Publishing Scotland, said: “We are hugely privileged to have this fellowship programme as a means of attracting people to come and experience the industry here. Thanks to our funders, in the six years since the Fellowship began, we will have invited 55 senior international publishers to Scotland and given our publishers, agents, and writers the chance to get to know them in a more relaxed setting.
“It’s all part of a wider internationalisation strand within our work and is paying dividends in terms of rights deals made, and in the very important relationships that have been forged between the fellows and the sector.”
Alan Bett, head of literature and publishing at Creative Scotland, which helps fund the fellowship, said: “The International Publishing Fellowship builds relationships between publishers and therefore develops channels for voices in Scottish literature to reach readers beyond the UK. By facilitating rights sales in international territories, the programme builds a more global readership and profile for our authors, as well as contributing towards sustainable writing careers."