Welcome to four bustling days at Göteborg Book Fair!

Prepare yourself for festivities, because that is what the Göteborg Book Fair is all about - a four day long literary festival! The many stages and exhibitors' stands host thrilling meetings between writers, Nobel Prize winners, publishers and booklovers who want to explore the power of the written word together. Don't hesitate - come and join us on the 27-30th of September 2012, when Nordic literature will be in focus!

Next year Göteborg Book Fair will be a true Nordic cultural manifestation! In
cooperation with the Nordic Council and the Nordic Council of Ministers, as well as different organisations and publishers from the Nordic region, the Book Fair will focus on Nordic literature in 2012.

-Interest in Nordic literature is growing and growing. And so is interest in the Nordic way of life. We have many things to share and much to discuss with others. The internationally renowned Göteborg Book Fair is a wonderful venue for this during 2012, a year of many different anniversaries, commented Halldór Ásgrimsson, General Secretary of the Nordic Council of Ministers, and Jan-Erik Enestam, President of the Nordic Council.

In 2012 the Nordic Council celebrates its 60th anniversary and the 50th anniversary of the awarding of the first Nordic Council literature prize, while 40 plus one years have gone since the Nordic countries agreed to cooperate at a ministerial level, and founded the Nordic Council of Ministers.

Göteborg Book Fair 2012 takes place the 27th-30th September.

We hope to see you all here in September, a big welcome!