Philippines Named Guest of Honour at Frankfurt Book Fair 2025

Frankfurter Buchmesse 2025 honors the Philippines, showcasing its vibrant literature, diverse culture, and global voices in a special book exhibition.

on Jul 01, 2025

Philippines Named Guest of Honour at Frankfurt Book Fair 2025

An island nation with a culture centered on diversity: The Philippines, Guest of Honour at Frankfurter Buchmesse 2025, is marked by the nation's significant artists, the indigenous people's customs and worldwide viewpoints - staged against a tribute to the figurehead of Philippine literature, Jose Rizal. His book "Noli Me Tangere" motivated the guest of honor slogan: "The imagination peoples the air".

This establishes a unique bridge to the country's colorful literature and distinctive narration. The archipelago's cultural scenery is defined most of all by several influences, for it comprises 7,641 islands on which 183 languages are spoken by 109 million citizens. This makes the Philippines the world's thirteenth largest country.

The program will target the country's celebrated writers, artists and creatives and rich literary heritage and diverse literary traditions.

The Guest of Honour 2025 presents himself

Books on the Philippines – Call to participation to the international book exhibition on the Guest of Honour 2025

Publishers everywhere are invited to show their recent publications on the Philippines within the international book exhibition 'Books on the Philippines' in the Guest of Honour Pavilion at the book fair. Frankfurter Buchmesse is organising this special exhibition.

We are interested in receiving all translations of Philippines authors' works, as well as publications on the politics, culture, language, history and society of the Philippines. Your titles must have been published during the period 2022-2025 and be in print. You just need to give us 3 copies of each of your titles to be displayed in the exhibition.

Participation:

All publishing houses, with the exception of publishers from the Philippines, are requested to donate their latest titles to the exhibition.