- International Day of Bibliodiversity (B Day), 21 September 2019!
- The 2nd meeting of the International Conference of Independent Publishers 2019-2021 in Chile, bringing together Spanish-language (Spain and Latin America) in Santiago de Chile, on 1 and 2 October 2019. This meeting will be followed by the Primavera del libro (Spring of the book) from October 3 to 6, offering an opportunity to showcase the mapping and analysis of public book policies in Latin America.
- Meeting of the International Committee of Independent Publishers, 12-14 October 2019, in Paris: one of the objectives of the ICIP will be to map out the next International Conference of Independent Publishers and to deliberate on the choice of city where the closing meeting will take place in 2021. The steps to come in 2020 and 2021 are under way... and will be announced in the second half of 2019.
- Frankfurt Book Fair, 16-20 October 2019: among other activities, the 3rd edition of the Latin American Hotlist; the “Nonfiction Editor’s Networking Event” (19 October), on the theme: “Publishing Serious Nonfiction: It’s a Woman’s World” with the participation of Muge Sokmen (Metis Publishers in Turkey) and Kenza Sefrioui (En toutes lettres in Morocco).
- Publication of the next issue of Bibliodiversity on “Minority languages”. The Alliance will also participate in the festival D’un Pays l’Autre, focusing on languages and translation, organized by Contre allée publishing.
- Publication of the next title of the “Terres solidaires” collection: Munyal, les larmes de la patience, by Djaïli Amadou Amal, originally published by Proximité in Cameroon; reissued by 8 publishers in French-speaking Africa. Djaïli Amadou Amal received for this title the Orange du livre en Afrique award!
- Publishing projects (co-publishing of collections, books in African languages, comics) on children’s books/youth literature, including some arising from Hervé Gigot prize for illustrated children’s books in Africa and/or initiated during the “illustration and graphic design for children’s books/ youth literature” in Abidjan in May 2019...