Juergen Boos, Director of Frankfurter Buchmesse, receives Order of Isabel la Católica

As part of the state visit of Their Majesties the Spanish Royal Couple, Juergen Boos, Director and Managing Director of Frankfurter Buchemsse, was awarded the "Encomienda de Número de la Orden de Isabel la Católica". The reason behind him receiving this is his commitment to Spanish literature and culture, as well as his promotion of German-Spanish relations.

The Order of Isabel la Católica is awarded for services to the arts and sciences in Spain. It was established by King Ferdinand VII on March 24 1815, under the name the Royal and American Order of Isabella the Catholic. The order class Encomienda de Numero denotes the rank of Grand Officer.

About Juergen Boos

Juergen Boos has been Director and Managing Director of Frankfurter Buchmesse GmbH since 2005. Boos trained as a publishing bookseller at Herder Verlag in the 1980s and studied marketing and organizational theory. He was a manager at Droemer Knaur, Carl Hanser Verlag and Springer Science and Business Media (now Springer Nature), as well as John Wiley and Sons. Boos is president of LITPROM (Society for the Promotion of Literature from Africa, Asia and Latin America) and executive director of LitCam (Frankfurter Buchmesse Literacy Campaign).

On November 20 2013, he was awarded the Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art. In January 2017, Juergen Boos received an honorary doctorate from Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University (Georgia). In February 2018, he was presented with the Order of Culture "Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres" (Order of Arts and Letters) at the French Embassy in Berlin. On October 5 2022, he received the Vigdís International Prize. Juergen Boos is a member of the Scientific Committee of the Sheikh Zayed Book Award and a member of the German Book Prize Academy.

About Spain's Guest of Honour appearance at Frankfurter Buchmesse 2022

Since 1976, Guests of Honour and guest regions have presented themselves at the Frankfurter Buchmesse; since 1988, there has been an annual guest country presentation, which is largely organized and financed by the Guests of Honour themselves.

Under the motto "Sparkling Creativity", the Guest Country Spain presented developments and trends in literary and cultural life, especially current literature and creative industries. Spain offers a diverse literature and a rich culture. At the same time, this is characterized by a large number of regional languages, including Catalan, Galician and Basque, each of which has its own literature.