Pitching Session on 28 April 2022: Literary titles in German

While China is one of the most important markets for selling rights of German language literary titles, there is a lot of untapped potential in South and South East Asia. Only few publishing houses in that region feature the necessary knowledge/demand of the German language in order to decide on which titles to buy and publish, a great amount of titles are available, it is not easy to get and keep an overview.

In our monthly digital Exchange Forums for translators who translate from the German language into the languages of South East Asia and Asia Pacific, we aim to provide a space for exchange, networking and learning. In the session of 28 April 20212 we want to introduce to the translators and editors of publishing houses in the Asia Pacific region literary titles from the German language market that might be interesting for these markets.

If you are interested to pitch one of your titles from your list to a group of experienced editors and translators from this region, then please apply: Send us the pitching material for one of your titles. We have put together a jury which will decide which titles will be pitched “in person” in the digital session on 28 April, at 10 am CET.
Titles which are not being chosen will be presented on this website www.translatorforum.de.

We look forward to your participation!
The deadline for application is 24 April 2022.

Please send your material per email to Sabine Mueller: info@transedit.de
This 2 hour-session will be conducted in English, as some of the participating editors do not speak German.
Each pitch should be no longer than 10 minutes.

The English language pitching material should, as usual, include the following information:

-All relevant information about the title
-Abstract
-Short info about the author
-Awards achieved, if applicable
-Claim to fame/distinctive features ( i.e. topical, from a language point of view, reception in the German speaking countries etc.)

Our series of pitching sessions
In the first pitching session on 16 December 16 2022, six publishers from German speaking countries pitched a variety of titles - fiction and non-fiction - for children and young adults to the participating translators and publishers based in the Asia-Pacific region.
See featured titles here: https://translatorforum.de/title-pitched

On 3 March 2022, in the second pitching session, translators presented their literary discoveries from the Asia-Pacific region to the invited German-speaking publishers.
See featured titles here: https://translatorforum.de/title-pitched/novels-and-short-stories

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