Belgrade Book Fair

The International Belgrade Book Fair is one of the oldest regional book events in Serbia.

Both national and regional Serbian publisher put on the show before publishing their annual production. Your basic goal is to enable publishers, authors, librarians, book distributors and multimedia companies, to socialize, share experiences, to open businesses and build other forms of business and cultural cooperation. In addition to the exhibitors an accompanying program of conferences, round table discussions, writers meetings, forums and workshops will be held in the exhibition. The Book Fair is the founder of the city of Belgrade. The event is chaired by Buchmesserat, the Executive Organizer is the company Belgrade Fair. The fair is traditionally held in October, in the Belgrade exhibition halls 1, 1A, 2 and 4, on the area of ​​30.000 m² and lasts for eight days.

Background

The Book Fair is the most visited cultural event in Serbia. 2012 had the fair 150 798 visitors. Due to the organizer data, Messe was followed in 2012 by renowned journalists in 1275, of which 71 are from abroad. Also 2010 on Belgrade citizens conducted by Strategic Marketing According to the survey, the Book Fair is the largest trademark of Belgrade.

Prize-giving

During the Belgrade Book Fair awards in the categories " Publisher of the Year ", " publisher Project of the Year " and awarded " Children's Book of the Year". These prizes are awarded Publisher and production plants, which represent an extraordinary effort by the publishers, editors and writers for their quality and the value of their scientific and artistic achievement. All publishers participating in the show from Serbia can apply for the award. Since 2007, the Dositej Obradovic Prize is awarded to an international publisher for his permanent contribution of the publication and promotion of Serbian literature. The previous winners were the Austrian Wieser Verlag from Klagenfurt (2007 ), the French publisher Gaia Editions of Bordeaux ( 2008), the Hungarian publisher Jelenkor of Pécs (2009), the Italian publisher Zandonai from Rovereto (2010), the Bulgarian publisher Sieia from Sofia and the Slovak publisher Kaligram from Bratislava.

Guest of Honour

Since 2002, the Belgrade Book Fair also has a guest of honor: a host country, its literature and publishing production are particularly presented. The guest of honor gets a special place in the book fair, in the arena of Hall 1 At its booth as well as in the exhibition halls, the promotion guest of honor country has the opportunity to present his Publishing and its culture. The previous guest of honor countries were Norway (2002 ), Canada (2003 ), France ( 2004), UK ( 2005), United States ( 2006), Italy ( 2007), Japan ( 2008), Greece ( 2009), Sweden (2010 ), Portuguese (2011 ) and Hungary ( 2012).

Authors

The Book Fair closes all the more important authors and writers from Serbia and the region with a. The fair is traditionally opened by local authors. Among them were people like David Albahari, Milovan Danojlić, Dragan Velikić and László Végel. International were Alain Robbe-Grillet, Erica Jong, Claudio Magris, Charles Simic and Peter Handke as a guest.

School

Since 2005, the so-called school day is organized in the Mass, the organized visits of students, teachers, professors and school librarians as well as tailored to these groups includes accompanying programs.

History

The first book fair was held in 1956 in the Yugoslav Zagreb under the patronage of Josip Broz Tito instead. In attendance were writers in the country, among them Ivo Andrić and Miroslav Krleža. Around 12,000 books of all Yugoslav publishers were issued, while also publishing companies from Austria, Czechoslovakia, the Netherlands, Great Britain, France, Italy, China, Hungary, the GDR and the Federal Republic of Germany, Poland, Romania, USA, the Soviet Union and Switzerland were issued.

The following year, the fair moved to Belgrade, where the construction of an exhibition center was completed. The books were of 60 domestic and 36 foreign publishers from 16 countries in Europe, America and Asia, issued. It was agreed that the International Book Fair last six days and to be represented in a catalog. The first Belgrade Book Fair 1966 took place in late October in the Belgrade Fair Hall 3 and was opened by Rodoljub Čolaković, the Vice President of the Federal Executive Council. At the Messefestlichkeiten the Revue launched the book and the world. The International Book Fair in Belgrade gathered annually more and more publishers from Yugoslavia and the world, so that it was after the Frankfurt Book Fair and the International Book Fair in Warsaw, the largest meeting place of the publisher employees from Europe, America, Asia and Africa.

Opinions

" Већ на први, површан поглед може се видети жеља да Сајам буде отворен прозор са двоструким видиком, са видиком за нашег човека у страни свет књиге и видиком за странца на пут и развитак књиге у књижевностима наших народа. Поред издања на језицима свих наших народа и народности, на њему учествује око 70 излагача из 18 земаља ... У вези са Сајмом организована је, уз сарадњу стручњака, изложба у част 100 годишњице В. И. Лењина, затим међународна изложба славистичких издања наших кућа и станова [ ... ]. "

" Even at first superficial glance, you can see the desire that the fair an open window with dual view is a foreign for our people to the world of books and the other for a foreigner to Buchweg and development in the literature of our people. In addition to the issues in the languages ​​of all our peoples, and nations, take it around 70 exhibitors from 18 countries participated in [ ... ]. In this regard, was organized with the collaboration of experts, the exhibition in honor of the 100th anniversary of VI Lenin, the international exhibition of Slavic editions of our houses and apartments [ ... ]. "

" Погледајте ову огромну количину тајни око себе! На Сајму књига се увек осетим више тужна него радосна: Да поживимо стотине година, не бисмо стигли отворити све ове шкољке бисера људске мисли, пуне ватре срца и олуја маште [ ... ] ".

"Look at this huge amount of secrets on to you! In the book fair, I feel more and more sad than happy. Even though we lived hundreds of years, we would not have time all these shells the pearls of human opinions, full of heart and imagination fire storms to open, [ ... ]. "

" Translation: [ ... ] The literature lives of deceased classics and lively readers are finding a new question: Can we love a book? And how much we appreciate it, or how nice it is [ ... ]. Addiction so today is a book that you can also love evening. Thus it might help the planet to survive [ ... ]. "

" Сајам књига представља једно дивно средишно место на којем могу само да сретнем писце које познајем и да видим, прегледам и упознам се са целокупном домаћом продукцијом. Дакле, Сајам књига је најдивније време за мене у Београду. "

" The book fair is a wonderful focal point, where I can meet writers simply that I know of, as well as see, look and learn can know the entire domestic production. So, the book fair is the best time for me in Belgrade [ ... ]. "