Paris Book Fair

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Paris Book Fair

Branch Books
Place of issue Paris
Website livreparis.com
Last exhibition
date March 15, 2019 to
March 18, 2019
Next exhibition
date March 19, 2021 to
March 22, 2021

The Paris Book Fair (French: Salon du livre de Paris ) is the largest book fair in France. It takes place annually in March on the exhibition grounds at the Porte de Versailles .

history

The book fair was founded in 1981 and today has around 150,000 visitors (2017) on around 55,000 square meters. Publishers from around 50 countries present 3,000 authors in readings and other events.

The fair is not designed as a trade fair, but as a public fair ; since 2005 pupils are exempt from entry. The sponsor is the Syndicat national de l'édition , the organizer is the British-Dutch Reed Elsevier .

There have been country priorities since 1989: These were Germany (1989), India (1990), Italy (1991), Spain (1992), the USA (1996), Japan (1997), Brazil (1998), Québec (1999) , Portugal (2000), again Germany (2001), Italy (2002), the Dutch- speaking world (2003), China (2004), Russia (2005), the Francophonie (2006), India (2007), Israel (2008), Mexico (2009).

In 2011 the fair took place from 18 to 23 March. The focus was on the Nordic countries . Among the 40 invited writers were Helle Helle and Jens Christian Grøndahl from Denmark, Tore Renberg from Norway and Sofi Oksanen from Finland.

In 2012 the fair took place from March 16-19; the focus was on Japan and numerous Japanese authors were invited, including Kaori Ekuni , Moto Hagio , Mitsuyo Kakuta and Kenzaburo Oe .

In 2020, the fair should take place from March 20 to 23, with the focus on India . Due to the COVID-19 pandemic , it was canceled on March 1st.

See also

Other book fairs in the French-speaking world are:

Web links

Commons : Salon du livre de Paris  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Livre Paris : "Communiqués de presse, Paris le 1er mars 2020" ( Memento of March 13, 2020 in the Internet Archive ).
  2. ↑ "1991-2012: histoire du salon du livre de Pointe-à-Pitre" , Gens de la caraïbe , 29 September 2012. Access date: 15 March 2020.