More than a hundred authors will appear at the Jyväskylä Book Fair on Saturday and Sunday. Seven of them also visit Yle Jyväskylä’s live Areena broadcast.
– It’s good to get rid of the understandable focus on Helsinki and it’s great that living writers move around the country and come here to meet people with a broader perspective.
The Jyväskylä publishing company Docendo, which has been taken over by the large WSOY, continues to publish books independently in Jyväskylä.
Docendo is offered a lot of manuscripts from the desk drawer, but the biggest hits are born in another way. At the publishing house, we first think about a current idea that should be implemented.
– Then we look for suitable factors, put together the project and can make a cost program that looks like ours, Simola reveals.
*You can discuss the topic on 27.11. until 23:00.*