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Lydia Cacho, Mexican journalist and writer, and Roberto Saviano, Italian author, were awarded with Olof Palme Prize 2011. They both spoke about justice and human rights issues in their native countries with a great deal of courage, and currently they are living under threats and persecution.
On November 28, twelve authors were awarded the 2011 EU Prize for Literature (EUPL) during a gala ceremony at the Hotel Plaza in Brussels.
On 10 February 2012, Michael D. Higgins, President of Ireland, will present Irish PEN's annual award to Joseph O'Connor for his remarkable achievements and contributions to Irish Literature.
Nawal El Saadawi, Egyptian author, became the Stig Dagermanm Prize winner. The author will receive the prize carrying 50,000 SEK for her work identical in nature with that of Dagerman's.
The Swedish Academy awarded newly established Ole and Ann-Marie Söderströms prize to author Eva-Marie Liffner.
In November 2011, Esi Edugyan was named the year's winner of Scotiabank Giller Prize for her novel "Half-Blood Blues".
Media Days in Gothenburg (Meg), can now present several new guests who will join the event that will be held for the first time on 8-9 March 2012.
The novel by Patrick DeWitt earned him Governor General's Literary Award 2011 in fiction carrying $25,000.
On October 12, 2011, John Ralston Saul, President of International PEN, will participate in the discussion about education, book markets and international dialogue at the Frankfurt Book Fair.
The national members of the Adjudicating Committee have produced a list of candidates for the Nordic Council Literature Prize 2012. Among them are Swedish Katarina Frostenson and Eva-Marie Liffner.
"The French Art of War", the first novel by Alexis Jenni, has now earned him France's most important literary prize, Le Goncourt.
"Dictatorial and authoritarian governments corrupt society" the author stressed.
January 2012 will mark the 100th anniversary since August Strindberg's death. Besides the celebration of the author's achievements, the Arts Council will hold events throughout the next year
American author Jonathan Franzen, who will visit Göteborg Book Fair this year, is one of three winners of the Chicago Tribune's 2011 literary awards.
A Zimbabwean writer has been awarded with this year's Cane Prize and £10,000 for her short story "Hitting Budapest".
The Belarus government authorities did not allow poet Uladzimir Njakljajev to travel to Sweden to receive this year's Tucholsky prize on November the 15th – the Day of Imprisoned Writers, celebrated by International PEN Club.
Nordic literature at Göteborg Book Fair 2012
Voices from Göteborg Book Fair
Twitters about the Book Fair
Relive Göteborg Book Fair
