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The Göteborg Book Fair 2010 presents its widest focal theme so far: Africa and African literature! More than 70 guests from 25 of the African nations are expected to visit the book fair. All in all this year’s seminar programme includes 446 seminars with about 800 participants from 36 countries.
Swedish Crime Fiction is rising in popularity all over Europe. Last year, five Swedish authors were ranked among the top 15 European authors. International bestseller number one is without any doubt Swedish Stieg Larsson who gained top position 2009 and outclassed all other competitors.
One crime writer and one debutant. Two promising South African authors will attend the Göteborg Book Fair in September 2010 - Kopano Matlwa and Deon Meyer.
Erica Jong, bestselling author of Fear of flying and Seducing the demon will participate at this year's Book fair.
South African contemporary poet, playwright and rap-artist Lesego Rampolokeng will make a visit to the Göteborg Book fair this year.
Goodness and the desire to create a better world is programmed into all people. That is the message in Mpho Tutu's book Made for Goodness, co-written with her father Desmond Tutu.
The Finnish author Sofi Oksanen has won the Nordic Council Literature Prize 2010 for her work Puhdistus (Cleasning). Sofi Oksanen visited the Göteborg Book Fair in 2007 and took part in two seminars.
The Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award (ALMA) is the world's largest prize for children's and young adult literature. This year's Award winner Kitty Crowther will be a guest at the Göteborg Book Fair in September!
A new powerful writing voice from Africa will attend Göteborg Book Fair 2010. Petina Gappah is an author from Zimbabwe, with law degrees from Cambridge, Graz University and the University of Zimbabwe. She lives with her son in Geneva where she works as counsel in an international organization that provides legal aid to developing countries.
Nuruddin Farah, one of Africa's best established and talked about authors, has been tipped as a possible Nobel Prize winner for many years and will attend Göteborg Book Fair this year. Another visitor is one of Tanzania's most colourful cultural personalities - Elieshi Lema.
The Egyptian writer and doctor Nawal El Saadawi will attend the Göteborg Book Fair this year. Renowned as a leading figure in the women's movement in the Arab world, she has suffered death threats, prison time and periods of exile because of her commitment to the cause.
The author Brian James from Sierra Leone (born in 1983) will participate at the Göteborg Book Fair. James has been invited to the Nordic Africa Institute for three months this autumn where he will be the Institute's "Guest Writer" 2010.
We can now confirm that the author of the popular series about the No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency, Alexander McCall Smith, will attend Göteborg Book Fair in 2010.
Nobel Laureate in Literature 2009, Herta Müller, has visited Göteborg Book Fair twice; in 1993 and in 2008.
In 2009 the Book Fair was celebrating its 25th birthday! The Book about the Book Fair - in which Ulf Roosvald tells the story of the Book Fair's first 25 years - was published just in time for the fair 2009.
We can now confirm that the 2011 Book Fair will focus especially on Germanic literature. Germany, Austria and Switzerland are working together on the theme which will draw attention to many writers, including the new post Berlin Wall generation.
Africa in focus 2010
Twitters about the Book Fair
Relive Göteborg Book Fair 2009
