Frankfurt Book Fair Hits Trendy Note
It's not just for bookworms anymore: With Asterix comics and the latest Wim Wenders film sharing the spotlight alongside Nobel prize winners, the Frankfurt book fair is rocking and rolling like never before. The world's most important book fair officially opens to visitors in Frankfurt on Wednesday with the creator of the Asterix comics rubbing shoulders with writers considered the moral conscience of South Korea. After the Arab world last year, South Korea is the guest of honour at the 57th annual Frankfurt Book Fair and has brought 62 authors to Germany to introduce them to the western public. "Korea is an unknown country in Europe. Korean culture is overshadowed by Japan and China," said Hwang Chi-Woo, the author acting as director of the guest of honour delegation. He said his aim was simply to get Europeans to talk about his country's writing and to understand its quiet understatement, which he compared to "the light that softens everything."
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