(英文版)See You in Frankfurt! (電子書)

本書為《集書人：法蘭克福書展前主席衛浩世二十五年任內的秘辛》英文版。

每年十月在德國舉辦的全球最大的圖書盛會「法蘭克福書展」，不僅提供了一個全球圖書交易的平台，讓來自世界各地的書客族們在此往來、對話，從另一個角度來看，它更提供了一個全球文化思想交流的場域，儼然是一個小型的聯合國。在這裡，人與人之間，有友誼，也有猜忌；企業與企業之間，有合作和夢想，也有商業鬥爭；國家與國家之間，有文化團結，也有政治打壓。

衛浩世，曾擔任法蘭克福書展主席達二十五年之久，既是書展的象徵，也是精神領袖。在這本書中，他詳實地記錄下擔任書展主席二十五年來的種種愛恨情愁。透過他的眼睛，我們看見這四分之一個世紀以來，出版界的發展與趨勢。我們得以一窺書展公司內部不為人知的權力爭鬥、強勢出版國對弱勢族群的打壓、「魯西迪事件」的全球效應、電子科技對出版業的衝擊、甚至媒體對書展的評論如何影響輿論。此外，跟隨著衛浩世踏遍全球的圖書考查，我們也有機會對拉丁美洲、日本、台灣、印度、中國大陸、東南亞等地的書界人事，有概略的了解。

《集書人》，不僅是衛浩世的個人自傳，也是他與圖書界裡遭遇的恩人、敵人、友人、情人的故事。

In 1975, Peter Weidhaas was elected as the Director of The Frankfurt Book Fair. It was a surprise choice. Little did he know that he would preside over revolutionary changes in one of the most important cultural expositions in the world. But first he had to answer the question of his own identity. Born in 1938, Weidhaas was forced to confront the horrors of his German past, to live and learn through the tumultuous events on 1968, and finally to find his own place among the leading lights of the literary world. He held the reins at the Frankfurt Book Fair during every major cultural shift of the last quarter of the 20th century: from the explosion of world literature to the collapse of Communism, from the advent of globalization to the triumph of information technology. Through it all, Peter Weidhaas has proven himself to be one of the world s most sensitive bibliophiles and an astute pupil of cultural history. "See You In Frankfurt!" is the story of how the Frankfurt Book Fair found its soul.

作者簡介

Peter Weidhaas

一九三八年二月二十五日生於柏林。青少年階段，曾在歐洲展開一段長期的自我放逐。期間，他做過書店學徒，建築工人，因為瘋狂地愛上一個丹麥少女，進入了這個少女家族的行業，到印刷廠去當學徒，而進入了出版業。一九六八年加入法蘭克福書展，由展覽部的一個助理，而派駐南美而再回到德國，於一九七四年開始擔任法蘭克福書展主席，於二０００年二月光榮卸任，歷時二十五年，也一手打造了法蘭克福書展今日的地位。他由一個流浪漢而成為逐漸打造出全世界最大書展的人，躋身為全世界出版業界最有權力的人物之一。卸任後，衛浩世仍持續奔走於全球各大書展，擔任國際上多種書展的顧問，也是台北國際書展老朋友。著有《憤怒書塵》、《法蘭克福書展６００年風華》。

Spanning his 25 year term as Director of The Frankfurt Book Fair (1975-2000), Peter Weidhaas introduced potent themes and championed unsung nations at the Book Fair. Since then, the annually alternating Guest of Honor appearances by literary representatives of diverse countries around the world have become an important Frankfurt Book Fair tradition. In the 1990s, Weidhaas founded the German Book Information Centers (BIZs) in Moscow, and Novosibirsk, Russia, as well as in Warsaw, Poland and Bucharest, Romania. A short while later, these were followed by the German Book Office in New York and a new BIZ in Beijing, China.