Bok & Bibliotek
The Gothenburg Book Fair (Book & Library), also known as Gothenburg Book Fair known is a 1985 founded Book Fair , held annually in the Swedish Gothenburg takes place. It is a meeting point for writers, publishers, literary agents, literary scholars, librarians, literary critics and readers.
history
In the beginning, the Bok & Bibliotek was a trade fair exclusively for booksellers , in its founding year 5000 visitors were counted. With over 70,000 to 100,000 visitors, it is now the largest trade fair for the book and library industry in Scandinavia . It takes place annually on four days in the last week of September, with the first two days reserved for trade visitors. It is organized by "Bok & Bibliotek i Norden AB", a subsidiary of Svenska Mässan . The venue is the Svenska Mässan congress center in central Gothenburg. 900 exhibitors from the fields of books, newspapers, magazines, comics, maps, art books and books for artists, antiquarian books, graphic and office supplies, library facilities and databases, film and audiovisual equipment are exhibiting on 14,000 m². (As of 2010)
The fairs each have an annual focus. At the 25th Bok & Bibliotek 2009, the focus was on literature from Latin American countries, in 2010 the attention was given to 70 guests from 25 African countries. The 27th event was dedicated to books from the German-speaking countries of Germany, Austria and Switzerland under the motto “Three countries - one language”. At the 28th fair, which took place between September 27 and 30, 2012, attention was drawn to Nordic literature. The 29th fair was scheduled for the days from September 26th to 29th, 2013 and had Romania as its theme, the 30th fair took place from September 25th to 28th, 2014 and had Brazil as the theme country (number of visitors: around 97,000 visitors) .
Dates and topics
- 1985: 23-25. August
- Topic: Library fair ( librarianship )
- 1986: 21-24. August
- Subject: Nordic cultural manifestation
- 1987: 20-23. August
- Author: Norway
- 1988: 18-21. August
- Author: Finland
- 1989: 07-10. September
- Author: Denmark
- 1990: 13-16. September
- Author: Iceland
- 1991: 26-29. September
- Topics: North, Germany, 400 years of children's books , 450 years of the Bible , 150 years of crime novels
- 1992: 10-13. September
- Greenland culture
- 1993: 09-12. September
- Topic: Indians (Indian year)
- 1994: 27.-30. September
- Nordic literature
- 1995: 26.-29. October
- Right to freedom of expression, freedom of speech and freedom of the press
- 1996: 24.-27. October
- Topic: multiculturalism
- 1997: October 30th – 2nd November
- Topics: Dutch and Flemish literature, adult education
- 1998: 22-25 October
- Topics: children's and youth literature, cultural heritage
- 1999: 16-19 September
- Topics: German-language literature, new ways for books
- 2000: 14-17 September
- Topic: Nordic Literature, Läsrörelsen (Swedish Campaign: Learning for Life)
- 2001: 13-16 September
- Subject: Nordic literature, Norway, architecture
- 2002: 19. – 22. September
- Subject: Finland , Journal02 (cultural magazine)
- 2003: 25-28 September
- Subject: Poland , popular science
- 2004: 23-26 September
- Author: British literature
- 2005: September 29th – 2nd October
- Author: Lithuania
- 2006: 21.-24. September
- Subject: Freedom of Expression
- 2007: 24.-27. September
- Author: Estonia
- 2008: 25-28 September
- Author: Latvia
- 2009: 24.-27. September
- Author: Spain
- 2010: 23-26 September
- Subject: Africa
- 2011: 22-25 September
- Topics: Germany , Austria , Switzerland - German-speaking countries in focus.
- 2012: 27.-30. September
- Subject: The North
- 2013: 26.-29. September
- Author: Romania
- 2014: 25-28 September
- Author: Brazil
- 2015: 24.-27. September
- Author: Hungary
- 2016: 22-25 September
- 2017: September 28th - October 1st
- 2018: 27.-30. September
- 2019: 26.-29. September
- Author: South Korea
Known visitors
Henning Mankell , 2005
Liza Marklund , 2005
Håkan Nesser , 2005
Dick Harrison , 2006
Mari Jungstedt , 2007
Anna Jansson , 2008
Etgar Keret and Jonas Karlsson , 2009
Nadine Gordimer , 2010
Web links
- Gothenburg Book Fair website (English & Swedish)
- Stock exchange journal of the German book trade for the 2011 fair
Individual evidence
- ↑ Brasilianskt på Bokmässan 2014 ( Memento of October 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ). Retrieved October 3, 2014 (Swedish).
- ↑ Jan Andersson: Ungern temat för Bokmässan 2015 ( Memento from September 30, 2014 in the Internet Archive ). In: gp.se of September 28, 2014. Retrieved October 3, 2014 (Swedish).