Book Fair

World Book Fair 2025 is all set to begin this weekend, Feb 1 at the Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi for all book lovers. Documentaries, panel discussions and round tables are among the exciting events

While the reading culture erodes and many books go unread, the passion for buying them remains unabated at fairs

Ooty is hosting the seventh edition of the Literary festival. This year, the celebration will announce the Lifetime Achievement Award to one of Tamil Nadu's leading writers

The festival, which plays host to France as its guest of honour, was inaugurated by 2022 Literature Nobel Laureate, Annie Ernaux

With the participation of over 30 countries and nearly 1,000 publishers and exhibitors, the New Delhi World Book Fair (NDWBF) is returning to its full physical form after a gap of three years, the National Book Trust announced on Thursday. This year's festival will be inaugurated on February 25 by education minister Dharmendra Pradhan, French ambassador Emmanuel Lenain, and NBT chairman Govind Prasad Sharma, among others. The last physical edition of the festival was in January 2020 and then the pandemic enforced the book gala to go online. Based on the theme of 'Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav', the book fair will host France as the guest country with the participation of 16 French authors, including the Nobel Prize winner Annie Ernaux, and more than 60 publishers, literary agents and cultural representatives. "Today we are seeing French people are more and more interested in Indian literature. France and India are two big countries of literature. We have dozens of people arriving from .

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Fair will be inaugurated by MoS for Human Resource Development Mahendra Nath Pandey

A guide and a mobile application for the fair was also launched at the event