Bok & Bibliotek • Göteborg Book Fair

The well-visited book fair in Göteborg has just come to an end. The official number of visitors were 97.000, presentations in the programme were 2700, with around 2100 participating organizations, publishing houses and so forth. Next year they have selected Africa and African literature as the theme.

Nätverkstan had, as usual, a stand for the cultural journals in Sweden where you could read the journals or listen to presentations of editors. One of the main topics of discussions was the Cultural Bill presented by the Government during the week and the point on changes in funding and definitions of cultural journals. The myriad of journals in Sweden, shown in our stand at the fair, would most certainly be effected.

Read the article today in the daily Dagens Nyheter (in Swedish) about the bill, written by journalist Mikael Löfgren. Read a former post on the Cultural Bill here. Download the ”Black list” of cultural journals presented by the journal Fronesis as a reaction on the Bill: adelsohn-liljeroths-svarta-lista (In Swedish).

Blogger Anna Winberg call the stand ”Pretty in Pink” (In Swedish) and project manager Carl Forsberg reads a letter to our Royal Highness Princess Victoria (In Swedish).