Frankfurt Fellowship Program Names Fellows

The 2017 participants of the Frankfurt Fellowship Program have been selected from a pool of 97 candidates from 42 countries. Beginning on October 1, 16 publishing professionals from 16 countries—including, for the first time, Iceland—will visit publishing companies and attend networking events in Frankfurt, Hamburg, and Berlin, and will attend this year's Frankfurt Book Fair. The inagural Fred Kobrak Frankfurt Fellowship was also awarded this year.

The Frankfurt Fellows 2017 are: 

• Leonardo Archila, Publishing Director, Intermedio Editores, Columbia 
• Dorothy Aubert, Editor, Hugo & Cie / Publisher & Founder, Belleville éditions, France 
• Anish Chandy, Head of Business Development & Rights, Juggernaut Books, India 
• Anne Isabel Cowley Meadows, Commissioning Editor, Granta & Portobello Books, UK 
• Stella Soffia Jóhannsdóttir, Acquiring Editor, Forlagid, Iceland 
• Tynan Kogane, Editor, New Directions Publishing, USA 
• Johanna Laitinen, Executive Editor, Gummerus Kustannus, Finland 
• Hernán López Winne, Co-founder und Editorial Director, Ediciones Godot Srl, Argentina 
• Lisanne Mathijssen, Commissioning Editor, HarperCollins Holland, Netherlands 
• Rita Mattar, Editor und Rights Manager, Companhia das Letras, Brazil 
• Hiromi Morikawa, Foreign Rights Manager, Iwanami Shoten, Publishers, Japan 
• Dominique Pleimling, Editorial Director, Eichborn / Bastei Lübbe, Germany 
• Anna Slotorsz, Rights and Royalties Manager, Sonia Draga Sp. z o.o., Poland 
• Mariia Shakura, Publisher, Book Club Family Leisure Club, Ukraine 
• Flavia Vadrucci, Junior Editor, Marsilio Editori S.p.A., Italy 
• Qian Yin, Foreign Rights Manager, Liaoning Science and Technology Publishing 
• House Ltd., China