Europe’s vast range of literary events includes some of the oldest and most venerated in the world. Use the search menu below to find events across the continent.
The Stockholm Writers Festival is a gathering of writers held over a weekend in August. Writers come together to find inspiration, develop expertise, and build networks that help bring their stories to the world. All writers are welcome regardless of genre, experience level or background. Each year, local and international teachers, industry experts, and literary agents are invited to the Swedish capital to share their experience and insights with the attendees.
Littfest is Sweden’s largest literature festival and has been arranged in Umeå every March since 2007. It started as countermovement against the commercialization of the book industry and combines international and local content. There are carefully prepared seminars that follow the festival’s theme, artistic ambition, and the current social debate. The festival was initially run by several committed private individuals, and later took the form of a non-profit association. The main part of the festival takes place at Umeå Folkets Hus, with four parallel stages.
The Göteborg Book Fair is a manifestation of arts and culture. Established in 1985 as a conference for librarians, the fair now gathers about 85,000 teachers, librarians, and book lovers every year in autumn. Writers, scholars, Nobel Laureates, politicians, and thinkers from around the world appear in readings, talks and debates. The fair combines an extensive seminar program and many exhibitions with teaching materials, children’s books, comics, fiction, non-fiction and more. The focus of the Gothenburg Book Fair has always been on Nordic literature.
