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Frankfurter Buchmesse
Every year in mid- October, the German city of Frankfurt witnesses the largest gathering of academics and publishers from around the world. For five days, the city's teeming with literary professionals there just to attend the largest annual trade show for books—Frankfurter Buchmesse.
Find out more »Scottish International Storytelling Festival
The 31st SISF celebrates old traditions and new connections, showcasing how music, dance and story communicate shared experiences that are ‘Beyond Words’. Canada and Scotland have closely interwoven identities and histories, so SISF is delighted to headline ‘Canada-Scotland: Coast to Coast’ for its International Exchange, thanks to Festivals Expo support. In this UN International Year of Indigenous Languages, First Nation and Scottish tradition bearers will share their story, dance and song inheritance, while contemporary narratives of exile, migration and cultural…
Find out more »International Belgrade Book Fair
The International Belgrade Book Fair is one of the oldest and the most important literary events in the region, with the main goal of helping publishers, authors, booksellers, librarians, book distributors, multimedia companies, and others in the business establish contacts, exchange experiences, make business deals, and start other forms of business and cultural cooperation. All the most prominent Serbian and regional publishers choose to present their annual publishing work at the Fair each year.
Find out more »Conrad Festival
The purpose of past editions of the Conrad Festival, the largest literary event in Poland, was to exemplify how to talk about reality. This time around, the invited writers will be discussing how reality comes into being thanks to literature. The week-long encounter with the world's best authors, critics, and translators will be an opportunity to discuss such concepts as objects, words, images, ideas, places, and characters. Hence the theme of the festival - Realities. The invited guest list is impressive and includes (among many others) Almudena Grandes, author of the prize-winning novel Las edades de Lulú, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, author of the popular novel Americanah, and Dmitrij Bukow, one of the most popular writers in today's Russia. The festival, named after Joseph Conrad, an eminent Polish writer who wrote exclusively in English.
Find out more »Helsinki Bok Fair
Helsinki Book Fair is the most important event for lovers of literature and book industry professionals in Finland. It brings together the brightest stars of Finnish literature and the most promising new talents. The themes at this year’s book fair include the freedom of speech, songwriting and American literature and culture. Helsinki Book Fair features 15 programme venues and more than 40 international literary guests . The programme consists of more than 800 debates and interviews, In addition to authors, speakers…
Find out more »The Geneva Book Fair
The Geneva Book Fair is the only publishing fair in Switzerland and brings together some 350 exhibitors from all over the French-speaking world. For five days, it welcomes readers, writers, publishers and booksellers with an open heart where pleasure, exchange and discovery reign supreme. Each year, many authors, ambassadors of French and foreign literature come to embody the diversity of literary genres, through the thematic scenes and the stands of publishers and booksellers. In each edition, a country or a region in the spotlight presents all their cultural and literary richness.
Find out more »Crossing Border, International Music and Literature Festival, the Hague
Every year more than 100 writers, artists and musicians from all over the world come together at the Crossing Border festival in The Hague. Presented on stage in Theater aan het Spui. Big names and emerging talent alternate.
Find out more »Antwerp Book Fair / Boekenbeurs
The Antwerp Book Fair is a business to consumer fair organized by the Flemish trade sector organization: the non-profit association ‘Boek.be’. This association embodies the landscape of the book sector in Flanders and reunites book publishers (both trade, scholar/academic/professional publishers, importers) and booksellers (independent stores, book chain members and online booksellers).The fair dates back to 1932 and was always located in Antwerp, the heart of the publishing industry in Flanders. The number of visitors increases yearly.
Find out more »Krasnoyarsk Book Culture Fair
The Krasnoyarsk Book Culture Fair offers an innovative approach to promoting reading, including an overview of the book in a modern multimedia cultural field, an analysis of its evolution, and a demonstration of the transformation of the book in its competition with new types of art and information media. Throughout its time, the Krasnoyarsk Book Culture Fair has become a renowned event and, given the composition of the participants in the exhibition and cultural programs, has received international attention.
Find out more »Istanbul Book Fair
The Istanbul Book Fair by TÜYAP Fairs started 36 years ago and is the largest event in the industry. With almost half a million visitors, it is a fair with great access to readers in Europe. Visitors have the chance to meet favorite authors and have their books signed. The fair introduces foreign literature and international publications in many different languages. There are many events to choose from including talks, panel discussions, poetry recitals and workshops. Hundreds of events and book signings make the fair one of the foremost cultural activities in the city.
Find out more »2019 Malta Book Festival
The 2019 Malta Book Festival Preparations for the 2019 Malta Book Festival, taking place between Wednesday 6 and Sunday 10 November, are well underway! A literary conference, relating to the genres of sci-fi and fantasy will be kicking off the festival on the evening of 6 November. Participating guest authors will be Loranne Vella, author of the 2018 National Book Prize winner Rokit (Merlin Publishers), Malta-born Jon Courtenay Grimwood, Kali Wallace and Dave Rudden. The programme for the MBF 2019, featuring book launches,…
Find out more »Buch Wien—International Book Fair
November is all about the book! The BUCH WIEN is with more than 400 program points the largest industry event in the country and DAS Literaturevent Austria. For a week, the current books of this autumn and their authors take center stage in venues all over Vienna. 51,000 visitors, 100,000 books, 400 events, 400 stars, 30 locations, 20 nations - that was BUCH WIEN's tenth birthday. In the year 2018, the philosopher Svenja Flaßpöhler gave one of the most popular opening speeches…
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