Bookworld Prague 2012

With its accompanying literary festival and international reach, Book World Prague is the largest event for books in the Czech Republic. Over four days visitors can acquaint themselves with practically every producer of books on the Czech market; this concerns primarily fiction, but also the publishing activities of most university presses and publishers of specialist literature. Altogether about 400 exhibitors from more than 30 countries and regions from all over the world are represented at the fair.

Book World Prague supports the work of translators, publishers and other figures of world literature from the Czech Republic and abroad and seeks to present them in a nationwide context.

The central theme of the 2012 fair will be the comics There will be exhibitions, seminars and meetings with authors active in a genre of literature that is currently attracting a great deal of interest, not least from the younger generation of readers.