The
Gothenburg Book Fair is an annual event held in
GothenburgGothenburg is the second-largest city in Sweden and the fifth-largest amongst the Nordic countries. Situated on the south-west coast of Sweden, the city proper has a population of 502,833 with 622,287 in the urban area and total of 911,406 inhabitants in the metropolitan area.The City of...
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SwedenSweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe...
, since 1985. It started primarily as a trade fair (for librarians and teachers) but is now the biggest literary festival in
ScandinaviaThe Nordic countries make up a region in Northern Europe and the North Atlantic which consists of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden and their associated territories which include the Faroe Islands, Greenland and Åland...
and the second biggest book fair in Europe after the
Frankfurt Book FairThe Frankfurt Book Fair is the world's largest trade fair for books, based on the number of publishing companies represented, although the Turin Book Fair does attract a wider number of visitors....
. The book fair usually takes place in the last week of September each year.
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The
Gothenburg Book Fair is an annual event held in
GothenburgGothenburg is the second-largest city in Sweden and the fifth-largest amongst the Nordic countries. Situated on the south-west coast of Sweden, the city proper has a population of 502,833 with 622,287 in the urban area and total of 911,406 inhabitants in the metropolitan area.The City of...
,
SwedenSweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe...
, since 1985. It started primarily as a trade fair (for librarians and teachers) but is now the biggest literary festival in
ScandinaviaThe Nordic countries make up a region in Northern Europe and the North Atlantic which consists of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden and their associated territories which include the Faroe Islands, Greenland and Åland...
and the second biggest book fair in Europe after the
Frankfurt Book FairThe Frankfurt Book Fair is the world's largest trade fair for books, based on the number of publishing companies represented, although the Turin Book Fair does attract a wider number of visitors....
. The book fair usually takes place in the last week of September each year.