Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has accepted Sjöjungfrun – The Mermaid Award 2025

"She is one of the most influential storytellers of our time", says Programme Director Oskar Ekström.

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"She is one of the most influential storytellers of our time", says Programme Director Oskar Ekström.

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The Gothenburg Book Fair 2026 will start in

Gothenburg Book Fair 2025 has concluded

Thank you all for visiting us – this year we welcomed 3,250 participants from 53 different countries, including 151 international authors.

Gothenburg Book Fair 2025 has been inaugurated

It is with pride we open the doors to the largest cultural event in the Nordics.
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Browse the 2025 seminar programme

This year’s themes – Love and Lust and Drama – run like a red thread through conversations on relationships, identity, theatre, and the written word’s journey to the stage.
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Bridgerton author Julia Quinn to visit The Fair

Gothenburg Book Fair is proud to announce its first guest for this year’s fair: Julia Quinn, the bestselling author behind the world-famous Bridgerton series.
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Read up on this year's themes at the Fair

The themes for Gothenburg Book Fair 2025 have been presented! We are already in the middle of the lustful curation progress.
Theme: Drama Theme: Love and Lust

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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Receives the Mermaid Award 2025 at the Gothenburg Book Fair

28 September / 2025

On Saturday, the Gothenburg Book Fair presented its literary prize Sjöjungfrun (The Mermaid) for the second time. This year’s laureate is Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, who accepted the awa...

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Peter James: "I think what is forgotten is how many of the greatest writers of the past wrote what we would call crime today."

22 September / 2025

You are one of the most lauded crime writers in the UK – and loved and read by many Scandinavians. For anyone who has not yet taken part of your particular world of crime – how would you introduce the...

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Love, Drama and the Burning Questions of Our Time Take Centre Stage at Gothenburg Book Fair 2025

27 May / 2025

What does education mean in the age of TikTok? How can libraries continue to safeguard democracy? And what should we do with each other? Gothenburg Book Fair 2025 presents a programme that brings toge...

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