About us

Svět knihy, Ltd. – we are a company of the Association of Czech Booksellers and Publishers. 

Our main activities include the holding of international book fairs and literary festivals:

• Book World Prague – the biggest celebration of books in the Czech Republic. In its four days at the Exhibition Grounds it is attended by over 50 000 visitors. More than 400 exhibitors fill some 4 000 m2 of exhibition area. Every year the literary festival presents close to 800 participating writers, illustrators, translators, experts and other players from the book industry in 650 accompanying programmes. The book fair and the festival present guests from over 30 countries of the world.
• Book World Pilsen – autumn book event held at the DEPO2015 venue since 2018. It offers an overview of the book production from over sixty publishers. The region of Pilsen hosts dozens of Czech and foreign authors, presenting themselves in a two-day colourful showcase of genres and literary programmes. The attendance approaches 8 000 visitors.

We are interested in everything concerning books. We run a year-round blog in which we draw attention to interesting aspects of domestic and foreign literature and important events taking place on the book market.

We are working closely together with writers and illustrators. We have interviewed many of them and recorded their author’s reading online during the coronavirus epidemic in the spring of 2020, when Book World Prague had to be cancelled. The interviews were broadcast by Mall.tv, where these virtual encounters can still be watched today.

We are also concerned with reader literacy in our society. Our aim is to develop it especially in children and young people, which is why we run the Growing with the Book campaign in support of the reading of books. 

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