Which international book fairs and festivals will you attend in 2018?
2 Seas Agency has listed the international book fairs and festivals that will take place throughout the world in 2018.
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 speaking at a panel on books in translation during the 2014 BookExpo America
May 2018
Thessaloniki Book Fair, Greece
3 – 6 May
Strokestown International Poetry Festival, Ireland
3 – 7 May
Teheran International Book Fair, Iran
2 – 12 May
Istanbul Tanpinar Literature Festival, Turkey
4 – 13 May
Prague International Book Fair, Czech Republic
10 – 13 May
Turin International Book Fair, Italy
10 – 14 May
Warsaw International Book Fair, Poland
17 – 20 May
Derek at the 2013 Bienal do Livro in Rio de Janeiro
Hay Festival, Wales
24 May – 3 June
Madrid Book Fair, Spain
25 May – 10 June
Lisbon Book Fair, Portugal
25 May – 13 June
BookExpo America, New York, USA
30 May – 1 June
New York Rights Fair, New York, USA
30 May – 1 June
Bookfest, Bucharest, Romania
30 May – 3 June
Tbilisi International Book Fair, Georgia
31 May – 3 June
June 2018
Seoul International Book Fair, Korea
20 – 24 June
Venezuela International Book Fair, Venezuela
21 – 23 June
Lit Link Festival, Croatia
28 – 30 June
July 2018
Hong Kong Book Fair, China
18 – 24 July
Comic-Con International, San Diego, USA
19 – 22 July
Paraty International Literary Festival (FLIP), Brazil
25 – 29 July
International Book Fair of Lima, Peru
20 July – 5 August
Chrys in front of the Sharjah International Book Fair, Expo Centre (November 2016)
August 2018
Bienal Internacional do Livro de São Paulo, Brazil
3 – 12 August
Beijing International Book Fair, China
22 – 26 August
Melbourne Writers Festival, Australia
24 August – 2 September
Ghana International Book Fair, Accra, Ghana
30 August – 2 September
September 2018
Moscow International Book Fair, Russia
5 – 9 September
South African Book Fair, Johannesburg, South Africa
7 – 9 September
Indonesia International Book Fair, Indonesia
12 – 16 September
Lviv International Book and Literature Festival, Ukraine
19 – 23 September
Bloody Scotland, Stirling, UK
21 – 23 September
Marleen and Chrys at the 2016 Frankfurt Book Fair (© João Piedade)
Nairobi International Book Fair, Kenya
26 – 30 September
Amman International Book Fair, Amman, Jordan
26 September – 6 October
Göteborg Book Fair, Sweden
27 – 30 September
October 2018
LIBER International Book Fair, Barcelona, Spain
3 – 5 October
Frankfurt Book Fair, Germany
10 – 14 October
International Belgrade Book Fair, Serbia
21 – 28 October
Krakow International Book Fair, Poland
25 – 28 October
Antwerp Book Fair, Belgium
28 October – 11 November
Books sold to Knaus Verlag in Germany through 2 Seas Agency, at the 2015 Leipzig Book Fair
Helsinki Book Fair, Finland
25 – 28 October
November 2018
Sharjah International Book Fair, UAE
31 October – 11 November
Krasnoyarsk Book Culture Fair, Russia
1 – 5 November
Bibliotéka Bratislava, Slovakia
8 – 11 November
Vienna International Book Fair, Austria
7 – 11 November
Malta Book Festival, Valletta, Malta
7 – 11 November
Shanghai International Children’s Book Fair, China
9 – 11 November
International Children and Young Adults Book Fair (FILIJ), Mexico
9 – 19 November
Istanbul Book Fair, Turkey
10 – 18 November
Interliber, Zagreb, Croatia
13 – 18 November
Salon du livre de Montréal, Canada
14 – 19 November
Marleen in action at the 2016 Guadalajara International Book Fair
Dublin Book Festival, Ireland
15 – 18 November
Gaudeamus Book Fair, Bucharest
dates TBC
Slovenian Book Fair, Ljubljana, Slovenia
20 – 25 November
FIL de Guadalajara, Mexico
24 November – 2 December
Moscow Non/Fiction Book Fair, Russia
28 November – 2 December
Pula Festival of Books and Authors, Croatia
29 November – 9 December
Marleen at the 2016 Turin Book Fair, at the end of her 5-week European tour
December 2018
Più Libri Più Liberi (Rome Book Fair), Rome, Italy
5 – 9 December
Sofia International Book Fair, Bulgaria
11 – 16 December
Jeddah International Book Fair, Saudi Arabia
12 – 22 December
January 2019
New Delhi World Book Fair, India
6 – 14 January
International Kolkata Book Fair, India
19 – 31 January
Marleen at the 2011 Beijing International Book Fair: 2 Seas Agency’s very first book fair participation, just a few months after its launch!
Jaipur Literature Festival, India
24 – 28 January
Festival International de la Bande Dessinée, Angoulême, France
24 – 27 January
February 2019
Lahore International Book Fair, Pakistan
dates TBC
Feria Internacional del Libro de La Habana, Cuba
dates TBC
Taipei International Book Exhibition, Taiwan
dates TBC
Casablanca Book Fair, Morocco
dates TBC
Perth International Arts Festival, Australia
8 Februar – 3 March
Brussels Book Fair, Belgium
dates TBC
Vilnius International Book Fair, Lithuania
dates TBC
Riga Book Fair, Latvia
dates TBC
March 2019
Chrys at the 2016 Lisbon Book Fair
Emirates Airline Festival of Literature, Dubai, UAE
dates TBC
Tempo di Libri, Milan, Italy
dates TBC
Leipzig Book Fair, Germany
dates TBC
London Book Fair, UK
12 – 14 March
Paris Book Fair, France
15 – 18 March
Alexandrina International Book Fair, Egypt
dates TBC
Marleen and Chrys at the London Book Fair 2016 edition
Bologna Children’s Book Fair, Italy
dates TBC
Bangkok International Book Fair, Thailand
dates TBC
April 2019
Quebec International Book Fair, Canada
10 – 14 April
Bogota International Book Fair, Colombia
23 April – 7 May
Budapest International Book Festival, Hungary
dates TBC
Santiago Book Fair, Chile
dates TBC
Sant Jordi Festival, Barcelona, Spain
23 April
Geneva Book and Press Fair, Switzerland
1 – 5 May
Buenos Aires Book Fair, Argentina
dates TBC
Eurasian International Book Fair, Astana, Kazakhstan
dates TBC
Abu Dhabi International Book Fair, UAE
dates TBC
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