Ayser is publisher and responsible for foreign rights at Sistem & Galata Publishing. Sistem is one of the largest publishing houses in Turkey publishing books on education and self-help. Galata, on the other part, mainly publishes fiction, specially translations of foreign contemporary fiction and a few original woks by Turkish writers.

During the Guadalajara Book Fair, she seeks to learn more about how publishing in Spanish and Portuguese works, apart from visiting with and meeting publishing colleagues, hearing their points of view on who to meet increasing higher standards.

Bence is Editorial Director at Magveto, a company founded in 1955 by the Ministry of Culture with the sole purpose of publishing contemporary Hungarian writers. The company was significantly restructured after the 1989 transition, without losing its literary profile.

Currently, Magveto publishes between 40 and 45 new titles each year in fiction, poetry, drama and non-fiction. It also represents foreign rights for the majority of its publications and many of its Hungarian authors are published abroad. Its latest world success was György Dragomán's novel, The White King, selling rights to 30 countries.

To date, the only contact Bence has had with the Latin American market is through Spain-based companies, so it wishes to get to know the Latin American markets through the most important Spanish language book fair.

Owner of her own company, Catherine holds the rights for translation and film of many French and Italian publishers. She specializes mainly in literary fiction, commercial fiction, non-fiction and biographies. The agency also represents a few foreign authors.

By participating in the program, she seeks to learn about the uniqueness of the Latin American markets and meet with Ibero-American publishing houses and agencies in order to expand her activities in these markets.

Declan is vice-president and senior editor at New Directions, an independent literary publishing house founded by legendary James Laughlin in 1936. The publishing house began publishing the work of Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams and soon became one of the pioneering publishers in the United States, introducing American readers to writers like César Aira, Roberto Bolaño, Jorge Luis Borges, Elías Cannetti, Hilda Doolittle, Herman Hesse, Christopher Isherwood, Franz Kafka, Clarice Lispector, Federico Carcía Lorca, Javier Marías, Yukio Mishima, Pablo Neruda, Boris Pasternak, Octavio Paz, Jean-Paul Sartre, Dylan Thomas, Nathanael West and Tennessee Williams.

Through the program, Declan seeks to meet agents and publishers from Latin America and Spain in order to enrich his publishing resources, as well as offering rights sales that his company has available.

Emily is publishing subdirector of the books division at Crown Culture Corporation, a company founded In 1954. Currently, it is an important media company especially interested in book and music publishing, film and TV production. It publishes 150 new books per year including the best local Taiwanese and foreign authors. Many of its books are included in the best seller lists of Taiwan

In Guadalajara, she is interested in discovering authors from around the world, particularly from Ibero-America as this part of the world is still new territory for Taiwan.

Emmanuelle is president and publisher at Galaade Editions, a dynamic and independent publishing house specializing in fiction and non-fiction, original works and translations.

Through the program, she wishes to learn more about the Latin American publishing sector and expand its network through agents and publishing houses in the region, as well as increasing international rights trade for Galaade. Specifically, her goal is to promote established French authors, like Edouard Glissant and Patrick Chamoiseau, or new writers like Sabine Huynh, Hugo Lamarck and Marc Lepape among Latin American publishers.

Rights purchase and sales.

Owner of Literación, literary agency, her company offers literary advisory, promotion of Chinese and Spanish-speaking authors in China, Spain and Mexico, and scouts for new authors and titles.

For Mónica, FIL represents a unique opportunity out of the year to get in direct contact with authors and publishing houses specialized in the area she covers. Plus, she wishes to learn about the publishing trends and get in contact with Ibero-American authors and for them to know her work.

Ornit has been in the publishing industry for 11 years, first as editor for Keter where she formed a list of literary translations of fiction for adults. Among the others she has worked with (or whose translations she has edited) are: Mario Vargas Llosa, Juan Luis Sampedro, Manuel Rivas, Elsa Osorio, Ariel Dorfman, Juan Marsé, Enrique Vila Matas, Haruki Murakami, Donna Tarrt, Sebald, Marai, Satnislaw Lem, etc.

She is currently Senior Acquisitions Editor at Modan, where she has created a literary list of the same nature. The publishing house is a family-owned company founded in 1970 by Mr. Oded Modan. It is an active company that over the past four years has published over 3,000 titles in many genres: fiction, non-fiction, children's books, cookbooks, albums and guides. Modan is one of Israel's top 4 publishing companies. Modan is also the main shareholder in a bookstore chain in Israel.

Renata is International Marketing Director and chief of rights and licenses at Beletrina, one of the most acknowledged publishing imprints in Slovenia. The publishing house has won its reputation, mainly, through introducing important literary works by national and international contemporary writers.

During her visit to Guadalajara, she wishes to make new business contacts, explore new ideas for international rights and promotion activities, compare her work with publishing houses with a similar profile, increase the presence of Slovenian literature abroad, and find new authors and trends in Spanish speaking countries.