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!
March 2018
Chrys at the 2016 Lisbon Book Fair
Emirates Airline Festival of Literature, Dubai, UAE
1 – 10 March
Tempo di Libri, Milan, Italy
8 – 12 March
Leipzig Book Fair, Germany
15 – 18 March
Paris Book Fair, France
16 – 19 March
Alexandrina International Book Fair, Egypt
22 March – 4 April
Marleen and Chrys at the London Book Fair 2016 edition
Bologna Children’s Book Fair, Italy
26 – 29 March
Bangkok International Book Fair, Thailand
26 March – 9 April
April 2018
London Book Fair, UK
10 – 12 April
Quebec International Book Fair, Canada
11 – 15 April
Bogota International Book Fair, Colombia
17 April – 2 May
Budapest International Book Festival, Hungary
19 – 22 April
Sant Jordi Festival, Barcelona, Spain
23 April
Geneva Book and Press Fair, Switzerland
25 – 29 April
Buenos Aires Book Fair, Argentina
26 April – 14 May
Eurasian International Book Fair, Astana, Kazakhstan
25 – 28 April
Abu Dhabi International Book Fair, UAE
25 April – 1 May
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
Nigeria International Book Fair, Lagos
dates TBC
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
Tbilisi International Book Fair, Georgia
25 – 28 May
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
June 2018
Seoul International Book Fair, Korea
20 – 24 June
Lit Link Festival, Croatia
dates TBC
July 2018
Hong Kong Book Fair, China
18 – 24 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
Shanghai Book Fair, China
dates TBC
Belt and Road Book Fair, Shandong, China
dates TBC
Beijing International Book Fair, China
22 – 26 August
Melbourne Writers Festival, Australia
24 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
Bloody Scotland, Stirling, UK
21 – 23 September
Marleen and Chrys at the 2016 Frankfurt Book Fair (© João Piedade)
Lviv International Book and Literature Festival, Ukraine
dates TBC
Colombo International Book Fair, Sri Lanka
dates TBC
Baku International Book Fair, Azerbaijan
dates TBC
Göteborg Book Fair, Sweden
27 – 30 September
Nairobi International Book Fair, Kenya
dates TBC
October 2018
LIBER International Book Fair, Barcelona, Spain
dates TBC
Frankfurt Book Fair, Germany
10 – 14 October
Doha International Book Fair, Qatar
dates TBC
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
Santiago Book Fair, Chile
dates TBC
BookExpo Australia, Sidney
dates TBC
Helsinki Book Fair, Finland
25 – 28 October
International Belgrade Book Fair, Serbia
dates TBC
November 2018
Sharjah International Book Fair, UAE
31 October – 11 November
Bibliotéka Bratislava, Slovakia
8 – 11 November
Venezuela International Book Fair, Venezuela
dates TBC
Vienna International Book Fair, Austria
7 – 11 November
Malta Book Festival, Valletta, Malta
dates TBC
Marleen in action at the 2016 Guadalajara International Book Fair
Dublin Book Festival, Ireland
dates TBC
Istanbul Book Fair, Turkey
10 – 18 November
International Children and Young Adults Book Fair (FILIJ), Mexico
dates TBC
Salon du livre de Montréal, Canada
dates TBC
Gaudeamus Book Fair, Bucharest
dates TBC
Shanghai International Children’s Book Fair, China
dates TBC
Slovenian Book Fair, Ljubljana, Slovenia
dates TBC
Reykjavik Book Fair, Iceland
dates TBC
FIL de Guadalajara, Mexico
dates TBC
Moscow Non/Fiction Book Fair, Russia
dates TBC
Doha International Book Fair, Doha, Qatar
dates TBC
Beirut International Book Fair, Lebanon
dates TBC
Marleen at the 2016 Turin Book Fair, at the end of her 5-week European tour
December 2018
Pula Festival of Books and Authors, Croatia
dates TBC
Più Libri Più Liberi (Rome Book Fair), Rome, Italy
dates TBC
Sofia International Book Fair, Bulgaria
dates TBC
Jeddah International Book Fair, Saudi Arabia
dates TBC
January 2019
New Delhi World Book Fair, India
dates TBC
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
dates TBC
International Kolkata Book Fair, India
dates TBC
Festival International de la Bande Dessinée, Angoulême, France
dates TBC
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
dates TBC
Brussels Book Fair, Belgium
dates TBC
Vilnius International Book Fair, Lithuania
dates TBC
Riga Book Fair, Latvia
dates TBC
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