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From tomorrow, Wednesday October 18th to the 22nd the 75th Frankfurter Buchmesse will take place! Jap Sam Books is happy to be included in this special event and invites you to visit us in hall 3.1, booth H137.

We are looking forward to our next art book fair, Miss Read 2023 in Berlin! Come by our stand for a chat and the opportunity to leaf through our publications. We will bring our latest launches as well as a selection of our backlist. 

Jap Sam Books will be part of the book fair on June 15th 2023 at VU Amsterdam for the Day of Writing & Publishing! Gloria will be present at our table with a great selection of our publications from 2PM until 6PM.

We are excited to announce the nomination the Prix Bob Calle 2023 of jaune, geel, gelb, yellow. Monochrome by artist Antonis Pittas, designed by Alex Farrar! Publisher Eleonoor Jap Sam, and artist Antonis Pittas will attend the prize ceremony on June 8th in Paris. This award has been created to show and celebrate the particular art form that is the artist's book, and to help its recognition and international influence.

The past month we celebrated the launch of two special limited edition artist books, Displace and Mother's Milk. We also had two great book events of the earlier launched publications The Civic Empowerment Toolbox and RAABJERG. Rune Peitersen. In this post we look back on these events through images.

Image: Aad Hoogendoorn

Lesia Topolnyk received the prize on December 1st from Gunay Uslu, the state secretary for Media and Culture, at The New Institute. 

Photo: Aad Hoogendoorn

The grand opening of the Prix de Rome Architecture 2022 exhibition named Healing Sites took place last week. The healing sites the nominated architects worked on during the past months will be on show until April 9th, 2023 in Het Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam. 

Ton Kraayeveld will present his new publication Labyrinth. Ton Kraayeveld on November 13th, 3PM in the Dordrechts Museum. One of the authors, Marie Jeanne de Rooij will interview Ton Kraayeveld and Renate Boere, designer of Labyrinth will talk about the design.