Publishing professionals from around the world will soon arrive for the fourth annual International Visitors Programme, an industry-networking event running Oct. 23“27 in conjunction with Toronto’s International Festival of Authors at Harbourfront.

Click on the thumbnails for a pre-cocktail party primer of who’s in town for the festival.

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Páraic Breathnach is director of the Galway Arts Centre and producer of the Cúirt International Festival of Literature. He has served as a member of the Arts Council of Ireland and worked extensively in theatre as a writer, director, actor, and producer, and in the media as an arts journalist in television, radio, and print. His first language is Gaelic.

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Lexy Bloom is a senior editor at Vintage and Anchor Books, imprints of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group at Random House, where she edits fiction and non-fiction, focusing on international literature. She has edited authors such as Haruki Murakami, Natsuo Kirino, Roshi Fernando, Hanan al-Shaykh, Joshua Henkin, and many others for Knopf, Pantheon, and Vintage/Anchor. She has overseen and edited backlist publications of the works of Irène Némirovsky, as well as the paperback editions of Abraham Verghese, Jennifer Egan, Edwidge Danticat, and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.

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Emmanuel Delloye has taught French language and literature at Kabul University in Afghanistan for six years. Throughout his professional life, Delloye has worked with the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, mostly in the Official Development Assistance and cultural sections. He has been appointed to several countries, including Tunisia, Nicaragua, Ireland, and the U.S. Delloye is a member of the association at Étonnants Voyageurs, a book and film festival held in France.

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Patrizia van Daalen, an Italo-German raised in France, has been an editor for seven years and is the senior rights and acquisitions manager for Shanghai 99 Readers' Culture Co., a private Chinese publishing company. She is responsible for worldwide acquisitions of fiction and non-fiction. Authors she has worked with include Michael Ondaatje, David Grossman, J.M.G. Le Clézio, Colum McCann, Luis Sepúlveda, Philip Roth, Patrick Modiano, and Stieg Larsson.

Patrizia van Daalen (Germany)

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Amy Einhorn Books launched in 2009 with its first book, <i>The Help</i> by Kathryn Stockett, becoming an international bestseller and a Hollywood film. Amy Einhorn Books also published <i>New York Times</i> bestsellers <i>The Postmistress</i> by Sarah Blake, <i>The Weird Sisters</i> by Eleanor Brown, and <i>The Book of Awesome</i> by Neil Pasricha. (Photo: Alexander Blaise)

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In 2002, Alexandra Pearson founded the Bookworm, a library/bookshop/restaurant that has become a hub for English-language literary happenings in cities across China. She is the managing director of the Bookworm International Literary Festival and co-compiler of the book <i>Beijing: Portrait of a City</i>.

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Ben Barnhart is an editor at Milkweed Editions, where he acquires and edits fiction, in addition to managing the press's digital operations and rights program. He's worked with a number of writers, including Gary Amdahl, David Rhodes, Kira Henehan, and James Wallenstein, with forthcoming books from Michael Garriga and Tamas Dobozy.

Ben Barnhart (U.S.)

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Brigitte Bouchard founded Les Allusifs in Quebec City in 2001 with a desire to get away from a certain ghettoization of literature in Quebec. Based in Paris and Montreal, Les Allusifs' catalogue includes several award-winning and notorious authors such as Dag Solstad, Hanne Ørstavik, Horacio Castellanos Moya, Roberto Bolaňo, Maya Angelou, Sylvain Trudel, and Goran Petrović.

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Elisabeth Schmitz began her publishing career at Maria B. Campbell Associates as a literary scout, and in 1994 joined Grove/Atlantic, where she is now vice-president, executive editor, and editorial director. She was appointed a Jerusalem Book Fair fellow and a VIP fellow at the Sydney Literary Festival.

Elisabeth Schmitz (U.S.)

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Gašper Troha is a producer, publisher, and professor of literature. He works as a program director at the Vilenica International Literary Festival, the oldest international literary festival in Slovenia. He also runs Arsem, a small publishing house, and teaches part-time at the University of Ljubljana's department of comparative literature and literary theory. (Photo: Primoz Lavre)

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Geoffrey Mulligan is publisher-at-large for Harvill Secker, where he edits a number of authors, including Louis de Bernières, J.M. Coetzee, Julia Franck, Günter Grass, David Lodge, Joseph O'Connor, Tim Parks, and Per Petterson. He is also publisher of Clerkenwell Press, a new literary fiction imprint of Profile. Next year's list includes work by Kim Thuy and Russell Banks.

Geoffrey Mulligan (U.K.)

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Nick Barley worked in London as a publisher and editor of art books and magazines throughout the 1990s. In 2003, he moved to Scotland to become editor of the cultural magazine <i>The List</i>, and was subsequently named 2005 PPA Editor of the Year. In 2006, Barley was appointed director of The Lighthouse, Scotland's Centre for Architecture, Design and the City. Since October 2009 he has been director of the Edinburgh International Book Festival, launching Unbound, a free mini-festival of literary performances, and the Newton First Book Award.

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Nicholas Pearson is publishing director at Fourth Estate, where he has worked as an editor for the past 16 years. Fourth Estate publishes an eclectic list of 40 to 50 books a year. Authors include Siddhartha Mukherjee, James Gleick, Hilary Mantel, Michael Cunningham, Michael Chabon, Jonathan Franzen, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Jeffrey Eugenides, Yiyun Li, Philip Hensher, and Doris Lessing.

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Simon Trewin is head of the books department at United Agents. He has worked in publishing since 1993. His client list includes John Boyne, Jane Casey, C.C. Humphreys, Nicci French, Robert Goddard, Andrew Motion, Fiona Neill, the Ian Fleming Will Trust, Scarlett Thomas, Steven Hall, Andrew Miller, Kate Williams, and Danny Wallace. <i>(Photo: Charlotteknee.com)</i>

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Stephen Rubin is the keynote speaker for this year's IV Programme. He started his book publishing career in 1984 as an executive editor at Bantam Books. In 1990 he was appointed president and publisher of Doubleday, and by 1995 was based in London as chairman and CEO of Bantam Doubleday Dell International. In 2009, he joined Henry Holt & Company as president and publisher. The authors he has published include John Grisham, Dan Brown, Margaret Atwood, Ian McEwan, Bill O'Reilly, and Tina Brown. <i>(Photo: Donna Holstein)</i>

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Mariana Rolier is executive publisher at LeYa Brazil, a Portuguese company based in Brazil since 2009, and one of the country's biggest publishers of fiction, non-fiction, YA, and graphic novels.

Mariana Rolier (Brazil)

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Susan Hayes is director of literature at the Australia Council for the Arts, the federal government's arts policy and granting agency. Susan has held positions at the Centre for Studies in Australian Literature at the University of Western Australia and at the literary journal <i>Westerly</i>. Hayes is a Churchill Fellow and has a masters of philosophy degree in Australian Studies.

Susan Hayes (Australia)

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Rosalind Ramsay began scouting in June 1996 and, together with her team, looks after publishers from around the world, as well as a major U.K. film and television company. Focusing on the U.K. market, she recommends books to her clients for translation, territorial, and film rights. Her background is in agenting with Andrew Nurnberg Associates and Rogers, Coleridge and White, where she sold translation rights for both U.K. and U.S. agencies in a variety of language territories.

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Gray Tan is president of the Grayhawk Agency, which he founded in 2008. Today GHA is a six-person team, representing publishers and agencies from all over the world, selling books from the U.S., U.K., France, Spain, Holland, and Scandinavian countries into Taiwan and China. Since 2009, Tan has also represented Chinese-language authors in foreign markets. He is a Frankfurt, Jerusalem, and Guadalajara fellow.

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