José Manuel Gómez’s farewell

At the end of the General Assembly meeting on 12 October 2017, long-time Chair of the IPA’s Literacy Book Industry Policy and Statistics (LIBS) Committee, José Manuel Gómez, was farewelled by the IPA. In his speech to the GA, Mr Gómez thanked the many friends he had made in the IPA and especially the six Presidents that he had worked with. Here below you can read his farewell speech.

IPA’s General Assembly, a great success

The culmination of the IPA’s busiest week of the year is always the IPA’s General Assembly (GA) and this year at the Frankfurt Book Fair was no exception.

Turkey takes Centre stage at Freedom to Publish Committee meeting in Frankfurt

Turkey’s abysmal freedom of expression record was the focus of the IPA Freedom to Publish Committee open meeting on Wednesday, 11 October, as representatives of the 2017 co-winners of the prestigious IPA Prix Voltaire spoke about how important the prize was for them.