(英文版)Life Before Letters (電子書)

本書為法蘭克福書展前主席衛浩世回憶錄《憤怒書塵》英文版。

A child of the Second World War, Peter Weidhaas could only find home by running away from the authoritarian culture into which he had been born. His early years on the road as a hitchhiker in Europe, the first loves of his life and his youthful exploits in Europe and South America, on to his initial encounters with the world of publishing from book dealing to bookbinding to book design and exhibitions set him down the twisting path to his future as Director of the Frankfurt Book Fair and one of the most important cultural figures in Europe. "Life Before Letters" is the story of how a man confronted his past by writing his future.

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.