Open Book Festival

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The Open Book Festival is a festival "committed to creating a platform to celebrate South African writers, as well as hosting top international authors".

Founded in 2011, consists of one hundred events over five days and include talks by international authors and South African writers; poetry; a comics marketplace; panel discussions; book launches; outreach reading initiatives; youth programmes and writer sports.

The Festival has been shortlisted for the London Book Fair Excellence Awards in the category of Literary Festivals.

In 2015, Open Book hosted nearly 10 000 visitors at the 123 events with more than 150 participants.

It also runs the Open Book School Library Project at St Mary’s Primary School and writing programmes as part of a mentorship project.


Sources

http://www.openbookfestival.co.za.

Artslink.co.za <news0816@artslink.co.za>

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