Publishing professionals from across the globe will soon arrive for the fifth annual International Visitors Programme, an industry-networking event running Oct. 21“25 in conjunction with Toronto’s International Festival of Authors.

Click on the thumbnails below for this year’s roster of fellows, distinguished guests, and delegates.

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Véronique Ovaldé is a writer whose novels have been translated into Italian, Spanish, German, Romanian, Portuguese, and English. Her latest novel, <i>Ce que je sais de Vera Candida</i>, reached public and critical acclaim by winning the Grand Prix des lectrices de Elle, Prix France Télévisions, and Le Prix Renaudot des Lycéens.

Véronique Ovaldé (France)

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Trena White joined Douglas & McIntyre Publishers in 2010 as acquiring editor of non-fiction for D&M and was made associate publisher of the imprint the following year. She was recently promoted to publisher of D&M and Greystone Books. Before joining D&M, she worked an editor at McClelland & Stewart and as the communications manager of a newspaper association.

Trena White

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Patrick Janson-Smith began his publishing career in 1967 at the University of London Press (Hodder & Stoughton). In 1969, he moved to Granada Publishing, working alongside Carmen Callil and Sonny Mehta. In 1974, he joined Transworld Publishers where he founded the Black Swan imprint. He joined HarperCollins in 2008 to set up the Blue Door imprint where his authors include Leonard Cohen and The Prince of Wales. (<i>Photo: Harry Sham</i>)

Patrick Janson-Smith (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.

Nick Barley (Scotland)

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Aside from his day job as an agent, Jonny Geller is also joint CEO of Curtis Brown and managing director of its books division. Geller works with a range of writers, who include literary fiction authors, best-selling thriller writers, journalists, and other public figures. He was named 2012 Literary Agent of the Year at <i>The Bookseller</i> Industry Awards. (<i>Photo: Vicky Alhadeff</i>)

Jonny Geller (U.K.)

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Jo Steffens is the executive director of WordFest: Banff-Calgary International Writers Festival. Prior to joining Wordfest, she was a curator at the Municipal Art Society in New York and founded the Independent Booksellers of New York City with Sarah McNally.

Jo Steffens (Canada/U.S.)

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Jacqueline Smit is the publisher of Orlando Uitgevers, an imprint of De Arbeiderspers/AW Bruna, which she founded in 2010. Smit, who studied comparative literature at the University of Utrecht, has worked in Dutch publishing for more than 20 years. She has a special interest in Canadian literature and publishes Canadian authors Frances Greenslade, Shandi Mitchell, Alison Pick, Nancy Richler, and Tanis Rideout. <i>(Photo: Susan Sanderus)</i>

Jacqueline Smit (The Netherlands)

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David Rosenthal is president and publisher of Blue Rider Press at Penguin. He served as publisher and executive vice-president of the Simon & Schuster imprint from 1997 until 2010. Prior to that he was the publisher of Villard Books and an executive editor at Random House. Before entering book publishing, Mr. Rosenthal wrote for a variety of national magazines and worked as managing editor of <i>Rolling Stone</i> and as executive editor of <i>New York</i> magazine. <i>(Photo: David Burnett)</i>

David Rosenthal (U.S.)

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Charlie Conrad is vice-president and executive editor at Crown Trade, a division of Random House. He has worked with memoirists, travel writers, and journalists such as Frank Abagnale, Geraldine Brooks, Eric Clapton, Jon Krakauer, Sarah Macdonald, Frances Mayes, Lawrence Osborne, James Webb, as well as Canadian authors Hugh Brewster, Robert Fulford, and Jan Wong. Conrad is currently working with Robbie Robertson on his memoir.

Charlie Conrad (U.S.)

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Jonathan Galassi is president and publisher at Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Galassi was <i>The Paris Review</i>'s poetry editor for 10 years, and has translated and published the works of Italian poets Giacomo Leopardi and Eugenio Montale. Galassi's own poems have appeared in literary journals and magazines including <i>Threepenny Review</i>, <i>The New Yorker</i>, and <i>The Nation</i>. This year, Knopf published his third book of poetry, <i>Left-handed</i>.<br /> <br /> Galassi presents this year's publishing keynote speech on Oct. 22.

Jonathan Galassi (U.S.)

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Tom Mayer is a senior editor at W.W. Norton & Company, where he publishes history, music, biography, narrative journalism, fiction, and graphic novels. His books include Amanda Padoan and Peter Zuckerman's <i>Buried in the Sky</i>, Andrew Graham-Dixon's <i>Caravaggio</i>, George Orwell's <i>Diaries</i>, Lydia Millet's <i>Ghost Lights</i>, Sarah Thornton's <i>Seven Days in the Art World</i>, and <i>The New York Times</i> bestsellers <i>The Influencing Machine</i> by Brooke Gladstone and Josh Neufeld and <i>Somewhere Towards the End</i> by Diana Athill, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award. (<i>Photo: Nancy Crampton</i>)

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After earning a master's degree in Intellectual Quebec History, Arnaud Foulon began working for Éditions Hurtubise in 1997 as an editor of historical essays. In 2000 he launched a new publishing division at Hurtubise, publishing illustrated and practical guides, and in 2003 was promoted to vice-president and publisher. In 2007, Foulon became General Manager for Groupe HMH, which owns Éditions Hurtubise, Éditions XYZ, Éditions Marcel Didier, and Distribution HMH. Today, Groupe HMH is the largest independent publisher in French Canada. (<i>Photo: F. Couture</i>)

Arnaud Foulon (Canada)

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Rachel Stevens is senior literature adviser at the British Council, responsible for developing literature projects and partnerships in South Asia and the Americas, and working across the sector in literary translation, live literature, creative writing, reader development, and publishing. Stevens is on the board of <i>Modern Poetry in Translation</i> and lives in London.

Rachel Stevens (U.K.)

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Lennie Goodings has been the publisher of Virago Press since 1996. Her client list includes Maya Angelou, Margaret Atwood, Lisa Appignanesi, Sarah Dunant, Linda Grant, Marilynne Robinson, Gillian Slovo, and Sarah Waters. A graduate of Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, Goodings arrived in London in 1977 and has been with Virago, which is now owned by Little, Brown, since 1979. (<i>Photo: Charlie Hopkinson</i>)

Lennie Goodings (U.K.)

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Lauren Wein is a senior editor at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, acquiring literary fiction from the U.S. and abroad. She arrived at HMH in 2011 after 15 years at Grove/Atlantic, where she served as rights director before becoming an editor. Among the writers she has worked with are Patricia Engel, Francisco Goldman, Stephanie Kallos, Ismet Prcic, and Antoine Wilson.

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Helen Conford is a publishing director at Penguin Press, where she has worked since 2003. Her focus is non-fiction, publishing authors such as Naomi Klein, Scott Schuman, and John Lanchester. In 2009, Conford was shortlisted for the U.K. Young Publishing Entrepreneur Award.<br />

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Dani Gill is the programme director of Cúirt International Festival of Literature in Galway, Ireland. In her first year as Cúirt's director, she increased audience attendance by 20 per cent and added an outreach programme to the festival. Gill is a poet and spends her spare time practising letterpress printing and working on independent publishing projects. Her special interests include new writers and Japanese fiction. (<i>Photo: Boyd Challenger</i>)

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