The conference, organised by Ceatl (Europen Council of Literary Translators' Associations) in collaboration with explores the difficult art of translating for children and reinventing literature in other languages and cultures.

Rights sales are a complex business as a huge seller in one country can just not work or even interest readers/publishers in another.

Bologna Children's Book Fair 2023 invited some of the translators of Italo Calvino's books, one of the most loved, read and translated Italian writers. One hundred years of words, stories and books translated all over the world, books that have never finished saying what they have to say, according to the definition of a classic literary text formulated by Calvino himself.

Born in Japan where it is one of the largest sectors of the country’s publishing industry, MANGA comics are enormously popular among the younger generations, exported and translated all over the world.
The meeting will give a broad overview of the history of the genre, looking at the key features of manga culture with a special focus on the characteristics required of translators of Manga content.

International Kids Licensing Days, the series of conferences on the latest trends in children's content, is back for the third year running. Spanning licensing, publishing, toys and the digital revolution, the meetings will look at new ways for retail to retain the attention of an increasingly fragmented and evolving customer base.

Bologna Book Plus confirms for 2023 its attention to authors and writers - whether they want to publish with a publisher, to self-publish or make writing their job - offering them two unique days of training and updating.

The training conference aimed at those who are thinking of a career in literary representation or are in the early stages of working in this area.

This training event ensured that you understand the cornerstone of copyright, and the essential steps of rights selling, whether you are starting off, or considering a career in rights; are in your first year or two and wish to consolidate the basics; you work in contracts or related areas, or you are a self-published children’s author.