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Porto Book Fair
The Porto Book Fair considered 87 entries for this year's edition, which will correspond to a total of 130 pavilions, the size understood as ideal. The event will take place from 6 to 22 September at the Crystal Palace Gardens. As for the typology of attendance, there will be 9 bookstores, 46 publishers, 21 bookstores and 6 distributors. These are joined by 5 institutional presences. The deadline for registration was July 3 and was open to publishers, distributors, booksellers, bookstores, public or…
Find out more »Berlin International Book Festival 2019
During eleven days the International Literature Festival Berlin presents new prose and poetry by contemporary authors from all over the world. Since 2001 the International Literature Festival takes place every year in September in Berlin. It focuses on the development of international prose and lyric poetry. During the festival writers from all over the world are in Berlin to present their work to lovers of literature. All texts are read in the original language, interpreters translate the pieces into German.…
Find out more »26th Lviv Book Forum and 14th Internat’l Literature Festival
The Lviv International Literature Festival is one of the most important cultural events in Ukraine. It is Ukraine’s largest and the only one literature festival, one of the most popular festivals in Central and Eastern Europe. Lviv International Literature Festival has taken place since 1997, since 2001 with foreign participation, and since 2006 – as a full-scale International Literary Festival within the framework of Lviv International Bookfair. The aim of the Festival: the development of literature, art and cultural traditions…
Find out more »Bloody Scotland
Bloody Scotland established itself as the leading Scottish International Crime Writing Festival in 2012 with acclaimed writers Lin Anderson and Alex Gray at the helm, then joined by Craig Robertson and Gordon Brown. Based in Stirling, Bloody Scotland has brought hundreds of crime writers new and established to the stage with always enthusiastic attendees who make the festival every bit as much as the writers do. Priding ourselves as the literary festival where you can let down your hair and…
Find out more »International Literature Festival, Odessa
We are pleased to announce that the 5th international literature festival odessa will take place from 25th till 29th September 2019. The participants of the festival are 33 authors from 9 countries of the world. Guests of odessa literature festival 2019: Maxim Biller (Germany) Andriy Bondar (Ukraine) Boris Khersonsky (Ukraine) Dimitré Dinev (Bulgaria/ Austria) Michael Fehr (Switzerland) Karl-Markus Gauß (Austria) Durs Grünbein (Germany) Maryna Hrymych (Ukraine) Yuriy Izdryk (Ukraine) Max Kidruk (Ukraine) Eugenia Kononenko (Ukraine) Andrey Kurkov (Ukraine) Dmytro Lazutkin (Ukraine) Johanna Lier (Switzerland)…
Find out more »Göteborg Book Fair
The Göteborg Book Fair is the most important event in Scandinavia for people in the book business. It is also a manifestation of arts and culture, a four-day long literary festival, a tribute to freedom of expression and a place for readers and writers to meet and celebrate the power of stories. Started in 1985 as a conference for librarians with 5,000 visitors the first time, the fair now gathers about 95,000 teachers, librarians and book lovers every year.
Find out more »Fourth International Literature Festival Odessa
The Festival aims to underscore the cultural charisma and international character of the city and to contribute to strengthening its connections with other cultural metropolises in Europe and on other continents. The Festival’s program will express this with its international character, which will in no way be restricted to (but will include) accents on Eastern Europe and the Black Sea region; rather – like the festivals in Switzerland and Berlin headed by Hans Ruprecht and Ulrich Schreiber. Authors from Ukraine,…
Find out more »Narberth Book Fair 2019
The Book Fair, the inspired brain-child of author Judith Barrow in 2013, began life in St Mary’s Church House, in Tenby as the first event of the Tenby Arts Festival. It has grown, year by year, ever more successful, with more and more authors eager to participate, so that now we need bigger premises and longer hours and we have found the ideal home in the Queen’s Hall in Narberth, with ample room for book stalls, talks, and workshops. The fair offers a…
Find out more »Dromineer Literary Festival 2019
The Dromineer Literary Festival has become well known and much loved as a friendly and intimate event and the location, on the banks of Lough Derg, certainly contribute to its charm. Although called a literary festival, the events are more wide-ranging than this suggests, encompassing visual arts, film, crafts, and music. There are poetry and short story competitions and also special workshops for secondary school students. It’s impossible to ignore the mighty Shannon River when you are in Dromineer, and…
Find out more »XIX International Celebration Lake Orta: Poetry on the Lake
This British-run festival celebrates poetry with readings, discussions, workshops, dance and music taking place in a myriad of locations around the lake, both on land and on water. The lake’s seductive and intimate setting attracts poets from the world over, who come to experience and share their work in one of Italy’s most charming locations.
Find out more »Cheltenham Literature Festival
For ten days every Autumn Cheltenham is transformed into a literary lover’s dream as we welcome over 600 of the world’s finest writers, actors, politicians, poets and leading opinion formers to help us celebrate the joy of the written word. Alongside a programme of nearly 500 debates, interviews and workshops, we also host Book It! our festival within a festival for families and young readers. Where else could you see the Gruffalo rub shoulders with an award-winning novelist, or a…
Find out more »Turku International Book Fair
Turku Book Fair’s themes will be updated – in the future the fair themes will include not just literature but also other art forms. “Already next autumn, we will start a series of cross-disciplinary main themes, which are intended to broaden the concept of literature as an art form – to highlight its naturally cross-disciplinary dimensions and to serve an audience that consumes a broad spectrum of culture. First in line is theatre, the art form that is probably closest to literature,”…
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