The four-day 23rd Vilnius Book Fair begins in Vilnius, the main highlights of which this year are Vilnius celebrating its 700th birthday and surviving the war that started a year ago and is still going on. Ukraine.
The book fair program includes awards, meetings with book authors, discussions and talks, educational programs, film screenings, book presentations and concerts, creative workshops, media forums and others. events.
Jurgas Ivanauskaitė and Vilnius Club prizes will be awarded at the book fair, the winners of the Book Art Competition will be awarded, the twelve most creative books of the Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore and the winning book will be presented.
Also, nominations for the Book of the Year election and IBBY Lithuanian branch's literature for children and teenagers will be announced, and the most cinematic books of 2021 will be presented, according to the organizers' press release.
At the Vilnius Book Fair, great attention will be paid to Ukrainian authors, Ukrainian literature and the literature of European freedom struggles.
About 30 events for adults will be related to Ukraine, and about 20 - to Vilnius.
The organizers of the fair hope that this year they will be able to get 50 thousand visitors. About 200 book fair participants and more than 500 events await them.
The organizers of the fair are the Association of Lithuanian Publishers, the Lithuanian Institute of Culture and the Lithuanian Exhibition and Congress Center LITEXPO.
Calendar of book fair days
- Friend's Day is Thursday. On Friends' Day, librarians with a librarian's certificate can visit the fair free of charge.
- The day of excitement is Friday.
- Date day is Saturday.
- Family day is Sunday.
Program of book fair events
