Which international book fairs and festivals will you attend in 2019?
2 Seas Agency’s 2019 International Book Fair Calendar
Which international book fairs and festivals will you attend in 2019?
2 Seas Agency has listed the international book fairs and festivals that will take place throughout the world in 2019.
Below information is subject to change, and we will, of course, do our best to keep this listing as much up to date as possible. Please contact us if you have additional information, or would like to report changes. Your comments and help are much appreciated!
Marleen at the 2016 Turin Book Fair, at the end of her 5-week European tour
MAY 2019
Thessaloniki Book Fair, Greece
9 – 12 May
Strokestown International Poetry Festival, Ireland
2 – 6 May
Prague International Book Fair, Czech Republic
9 – 12 May
Turin International Book Fair, Italy
9 – 13 May
Jerusalem International Book Fair, Israel
12 – 15 May
Venezuela International Book Fair, Venezuela
15 – 18 May
Warsaw International Book Fair, Poland
23 – 26 May
Derek at the 2013 Bienal do Livro in Rio de Janeiro
International Arsenal Book Festival, Kiev, Ukraine
22 – 26 May
Hay Festival, Wales
23 May – 2 June
Madrid Book Fair, Spain
31 May – 16 June
Lisbon Book Fair, Portugal
29 May – 16 June
BookExpo America, New York, USA
30 May – 1 June
New York Rights Fair, New York, USA
29 – 31 May
Bookfest, Bucharest, Romania
29 May – 2 June
Tbilisi International Book Fair, Georgia
TBC
JUNE 2019
Seoul International Book Fair, Korea
19 – 23 June
JULY 2019
Hong Kong Book Fair, China
17 – 23 July
Comic-Con International, San Diego, USA
18 – 21 July
Paraty International Literary Festival (FLIP), Brazil
10 – 14 July
International Book Fair of Lima, Peru
19 July – 4 August
Marleen speaking at a panel on books in translation during the 2014 BookExpo America
AUGUST 2019
Nepal International Book Fair, Nepal
14-20 August
Beijing International Book Fair, China
21 – 25 August
Melbourne Writers Festival, Australia
20 August – 8 September
Ghana International Book Fair, Accra, Ghana
29 August – 1 September
SEPTEMBER 2019
Moscow International Book Fair, Russia
4 – 8 September
South African Book Fair, Johannesburg, South Africa
6 – 8 September
Indonesia International Book Fair, Indonesia
TBC
Lviv International Book and Literature Festival, Ukraine
18 – 22 September
Bloody Scotland, Stirling, UK
20 – 22 September
Marleen and Chrys at the 2016 Frankfurt Book Fair (© João Piedade)
Nairobi International Book Fair, Kenya
TBC
Amman International Book Fair, Amman, Jordan
26 September – 10 October
Göteborg Book Fair, Sweden
26 – 29 September
Baku Book Fair, Azerbaijan
TBC
OCTOBER 2019
LIBER International Book Fair, Barcelona, Spain
TBC
Frankfurt Book Fair, Germany
16 – 20 October
International Belgrade Book Fair, Serbia
TBC
Krakow International Book Fair, Poland
24 – 27 October
Antwerp Book Fair, Belgium
TBC
Books sold to Knaus Verlag in Germany through 2 Seas Agency, at the 2015 Leipzig Book Fair
Helsinki Book Fair, Finland
24 – 27 October
NOVEMBER 2019
Sharjah International Book Fair, UAE
30 October – 9 November
Krasnoyarsk Book Culture Fair, Russia
31 October – 4 November
Bibliotéka Bratislava, Slovakia
7 – 10 November
Vienna International Book Fair, Austria
6 – 10 November
Malta Book Festival, Valletta, Malta
6 – 10 November
Shanghai International Children’s Book Fair, China
8 – 10 November
International Children and Young Adults Book Fair (FILIJ), Mexico
9 – 19 November
Istanbul Book Fair, Turkey
2 – 10 November
Interliber, Zagreb, Croatia
12 – 17 November
Salon du livre de Montréal, Canada
20 – 25 November
Marleen in action at the 2016 Guadalajara International Book Fair
Dublin Book Festival, Ireland
14 – 17 November
Gaudeamus Book Fair, Bucharest
dates TBC
Slovenian Book Fair, Ljubljana, Slovenia
20 – 25 November
FIL de Guadalajara, Mexico
23 November – 1 December
Pula Festival of Books and Authors, Croatia
29 November – 9 December
December 2019
Moscow Non/Fiction Book Fair, Russia
4 – 8 December
Più Libri Più Liberi (Rome Book Fair), Rome, Italy
4 – 8 December
Sofia International Book Fair, Bulgaria
TBC
Jeddah International Book Fair, Saudi Arabia
7 – 14 December
JANUARY 2020
New Delhi World Book Fair, India
TBC
International Kolkata Book Fair, India
TBC
Jaipur Literature Festival, India
TBC
Festival International de la Bande Dessinée, Angoulême, France
TBC
Cairo Book Fair, Egypt
TBC
Marleen at the 2011 Beijing International Book Fair
FEBRUARY 2020
Lahore International Book Fair, Pakistan
TBC
Casablanca Book Fair, Morocco
TBC
Feria Internacional del Libro de La Habana, Cuba
TBC
Taipei International Book Exhibition, Taiwan
TBC
Perth International Arts Festival, Australia
TBC
Brussels Book Fair, Belgium
TBC
Vilnius International Book Fair, Lithuania
TBC
MARCH 2020
Chrys at the 2016 Lisbon Book Fair
Riga Book Fair, Latvia
TBC
Emirates Airline Festival of Literature, Dubai, UAE
TBC
London Book Fair, UK
TBC
Paris Book Fair, France
Leipzig Book Fair, Germany
TBC
Alexandrina International Book Fair, Egypt
Marleen and Chrys at the London Book Fair 2016 edition
Bangkok International Book Fair, Thailand
dates TBC
APRIL 2020
Bologna Children’s Book Fair, Italy
TBC
Quebec International Book Fair, Canada
TBC
Bogota International Book Fair, Colombia
TBC
Budapest International Book Festival, Hungary
TBC
Istanbul International Literature Festival, Turkey
TBC
Santiago Book Fair, Chile
TBC
Chrys in front of the Sharjah International Book Fair, Expo Centre (November 2016)
Sant Jordi Festival, Barcelona, Spain
23 April
Geneva Book and Press Fair, Switzerland
TBC
Buenos Aires Book Fair, Argentina
TBC
Eurasian International Book Fair, Astana, Kazakhstan
dates TBC
