While conceding that 'asylum is very difficult,' Nicaragua's former vice president Sergio Ramírez, talks about moving to Spain and 'the role of a writer.'

Now in its second year, the publisher-owned Fraktura Bookshop serves as a hub of literary events and trusted recommendations in Zagreb.

The season puts Richard Charkin in mind of a dozen publishing-related things he'd like to see arrive, come about, or evolve by Twelfth Night.