Which international book fairs and festivals will you attend in 2017?
2 Seas Agency has listed the international book fairs and festivals that will take place throughout the world in 2017.
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!
January 2017
New Delhi World Book Fair, India
7 – 14 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
19 – 23 January
International Kolkata Book Fair, India
25 January – 5 February
Cairo International Book Fair, Egypt
27 January – 9 February
Festival International de la Bande Dessinée, Angoulême, France
26 – 29 January
February 2017
Taipei International Book Exhibition, Taiwan
8 – 13 February
Feria Internacional del Libro de La Habana, Cuba
9 – 19 February
Casablanca Book Fair, Morocco
9 – 19 February
Perth International Arts Festival, Australia
10 February – 5 March
Vilnius International Book Fair, Lithuania
23– 26 February
Chrys at the 2016 Lisbon Book Fair
Riga Book Fair, Latvia
24 – 26 February
March 2017
Emirates Airline Festival of Literature, Dubai, UAE
3 – 11 March
Brussels Book Fair, Belgium
9 – 13 March
London Book Fair, UK
14 – 17 March
Leipzig Book Fair, Germany
23 – 26 March
Alexandrina International Book Fair, Egypt
23 March – 4 April
Paris Book Fair, France
24 – 27 March
Marleen and Chrys at the London Book Fair 2016 edition
Bangkok International Book Fair, Thailand
29 March – 9 April
April 2017
Bologna Children’s Book Fair, Italy
3 – 6 April
Quebec International Book Fair, Canada
5 – 9 April
Tempo di Libri, Milan, Italy
19 – 23 April
Budapest International Book Festival, Hungary
20 – 23 April
Sant Jordi Festival, Barcelona, Spain
23 April
Bogota International Book Fair, Colombia
25 April – 8 May
Geneva Book and Press Fair, Switzerland
26 – 30 April
Buenos Aires Book Fair, Argentina
27 April – 15 May
Abu Dhabi International Book Fair, UAE
26 April – 2 May
Marleen speaking at a panel on books in translation during the 2014 BookExpo America
Strokestown International Poetry Festival, Ireland
27 – 30 April
May 2017
Teheran International Book Fair, Iran
3 – 13 May
Istanbul Tanpinar Literature Festival, Turkey
6 – 11 May
Nigeria International Book Fair, Lagos
8 – 13 May
Thessaloniki Book Fair, Greece
11 – 14 May
Prague International Book Fair, Czech Republic
11 – 14 May
Turin International Book Fair, Italy
18 – 22 May
Warsaw International Book Fair, Poland
18 – 21 May
Bookfest, Bucharest, Romania
24 – 28 May
Derek at the 2013 Bienal do Livro in Rio de Janeiro
Tbilisi International Book Fair, Georgia
25 – 28 May
Hay Festival, Wales
25 May – 4 June
Madrid Book Fair, Spain
26 May – 11 June
BookExpo America, New York, USA
31 May – 2 June
June 2017
Lisbon Book Fair, Portugal
1 – 18 June
Jerusalem International Book Fair, Israel
11 – 15 June
Eurasian International Book Fair, Astana, Kazakhstan
15 – 18 June
Seoul International Book Fair, Korea
14 – 18 June
July 2017
Hong Kong Book Fair, China
19 – 25 July
Paraty International Literary Festival (FLIP), Brazil
26 – 30 July
Chrys in front of the Sharjah International Book Fair, Expo Centre (November 2016)
August 2017
Shanghai Book Fair, China
16 – 22 August
Belt and Road Book Fair, Shandong, China
19 – 21 August
Beijing International Book Fair, China
23 – 27 August
Melbourne Writers Festival, Australia
25 August – 3 September
Bienal do Livro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
31 August – 10 September
September 2017
Indonesia International Book Fair, Indonesia
6 – 10 September
Moscow International Book Fair, Russia
6 – 10 September
Bloody Scotland, Stirling, UK
8 – 10 September
South African Book Fair, Johannesburg, South Africa
8 – 10 September
Marleen and Chrys at the 2016 Frankfurt Book Fair (© João Piedade)
Lviv International Book and Literature Festival, Ukraine
15– 18 September
Colombo International Book Fair, Sri Lanka
dates TBC
Baku International Book Fair, Azerbaijan
28– 30 September
Göteborg Book Fair, Sweden
28 September – 1 October
Tokyo International Book Fair, Japan
dates TBC
Nairobi International Book Fair, Kenya
27 September – 1 October
October 2017
LIBER International Book Fair, Barcelona, Spain
4 – 6 October
Frankfurt Book Fair, Germany
11 – 15 October
Doha International Book Fair, Qatar
12 October – November 30
Antwerp Book Fair, Belgium
31 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
26 – 29 October
International Belgrade Book Fair, Serbia
dates TBC
November 2017
Sharjah International Book Fair, UAE
1 – 11 November
Venezuela International Book Fair, Venezuela
3 – 13 November
Vienna International Book Fair, Austria
Second week of November
Malta Book Festival, Valletta, Malta
8 – 12 November
Marleen in action at the 2016 Guadalajara International Book Fair
Dublin Book Festival, Ireland
10 – 13 November
Istanbul Book Fair, Turkey
12 – 20 November
Salon du livre de Montréal, Canada
15 – 20 November
Gaudeamus Book Fair, Bucharest
dates TBC
Shanghai International Children’s Book Fair, China
17 – 19 November
Reykjavik Book Fair, Iceland
18 – 19 November
FIL de Guadalajara, Mexico
26 November – 4 December
Beirut International Book Fair, Lebanon
dates TBC
Moscow Non/Fiction Book Fair, Russia
30 November – 4 December
Marleen at the 2016 Turin Book Fair, at the end of her 5-week European tour
December 2017
Pula Festival of Books and Authors, Croatia
1 – 11 December
Più Libri Più Liberi (Rome Book Fair), Rome, Italy
7 – 11 December
Sofia International Book Fair, Bulgaria
13 – 18 December
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