Leipzig Book Fair 2025: Norway's authors enchant the city!

Leipzig Book Fair 2025: Norway's authors enchant the city!

The Leipzig Book Fair will take place this year from March 27 to 30, 2025 and promises to become an incomparable festival of literature. This is underlined by the presence of Norway as a guest of honor, where the literary motto is "dream in spring". As a guest of honor, Norway presents over 50 authors, including prominent names such as Karl Ove Knausgård and Maja Lunde. Kleine Zeitung reports that ...

Norway's literature is presented in six different genres, ranging from contemporary stories to Nordic Noir and literature for children and young adults. In this diverse program, strong thematic focuses are set, including epic and historical novels as well as socially critical crime stories. Leipziger Mass emphasizes that ...

prices and awards

An important highlight of the Leipzig Book Fair is the awarding of the Leipzig Book Prize for European understanding. This year the price, which is endowed with 20,000 euros, is awarded to Alherd Bacharewitsch for his novel "Europe's dogs". This work is described as a mixture of polittriller, epic, adventure history, satire and fairy tales. On March 27, the Leipzig Book Fair Prize will also be awarded in three categories, each endowed with 15,000 euros. In the Belletistics division, Wolf Haas, Kristine Bilkau and Esther Dischereit compete. Kleine Zeitung reports that ...

The last year's winner in the fiction was Barbi Marković with her work "mini -horror".

Austria's presence and events

Austria will be represented at the book fair with a gratifying number of 138 exhibitors, including 98 publishers. Around 50 Austrian publishers have their own stands, while 24 publishers will issue the HVB community stand. The IG authors presenting around 60 editions with almost 680 new releases on 50 square meters. In addition, over 2,000 events are planned as part of the “Leipzig Liest” reading festival, where, among other things, Nobel Prize winners such as Swetlana Alexijewitsch and Olga Tokarczuk are expected.

Particularly interested is also likely to arouse the newly set up "AudioTelt" of the book fair, which presents audiovisual content. At the same time, the Manga-Comic-Con, which is closely connected to the book fair, will offer a diverse program with workshops and signing hours.

The opening of the host country stand by Crown Princess Mette-Marit was canceled for health reasons because it suffers from lung fibrosis. Mette-Marit has been actively committed to promoting Norwegian literature since 2017.

tickets for the Leipzig Book Fair are available on the official website, and there is still the option of buying cheaper early bird tickets until February 26, 2025. For more information, the website leipziger-buchmesse.de can be visited.