Open Book Festival

The Open Book Festival is an annual literary festival held in Cape Town, South Africa with a focus on South African literature in an international context. The event includes over 150 literary events, featuring over 100 authors over 5 days. Although South African literature features prominently literature from across the world is also featured with both Anglophone and Francophone authors featuring prominently in the festivals events.

History

The first Open Book festival was held in 2011. The event was initiated by Mervyn Sloman of The Book Lounge (a Cape Town-based bookshop) and Ben Williams of Books Live (a literary focused subsidiary of the South African newspaper Times Live). == Focuses of interest ==

Focuses of interest

The festival was founded to bring the best literature in the world to Cape Town; to promote South African writing on an internationally; and to make books and literature more accessible to young readers. Most of the 150 events fall into one of the following sub-events with particular focuses: • Poetica: a two-day-long programme of events focused on poetry. • Comic Book Fest: focus on comic books and graphic novels. • Authors: number of panel discussions, workshops, presentations, and other events focused on authors. • Youth Programme: a number of events that focuses on encouraging a love for books amongst young people. == Notable events ==

Notable events

• In 2013 the Open Book Festival broke the Guinness Book of World Records for the world's longest book chain consisting of 2586 books. ==References==

Source: Wikipedia ↗

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