Watch the Mermaid Award 2025 Seminar with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The complete talk and prize ceremony with the Nigerian author is now available to stream.

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The complete talk and prize ceremony with the Nigerian author is now available to stream.

Watch here

The Gothenburg Book Fair 2026 will start in

Gothenburg Book Fair 2025 has concluded

Thank you all for visiting us – this year we welcomed 3,250 participants from 53 different countries, including 151 international authors.

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Reports from this year's Fair, and the themes of 2026 announced

Reports from this year's Fair, and the themes of 2026 announced

This year’s Gothenburg Book Fair was a powerful celebration of books. Over four days, seminar halls, stages, and exhibition spaces were filled to the brim, with record-long queues and an overwhelm...

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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Receives the Mermaid Award 2025 at the Gothenburg Book Fair

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Receives the Mermaid Award 2025 at the Gothenburg Book Fair

On Saturday, the Gothenburg Book Fair presented its literary prize Sjöjungfrun (The Mermaid) for the second time. This year’s laureate is Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, who accepted the awa...

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Peter James: "I think what is forgotten is how many of the greatest writers of the past wrote what we would call crime today."

Peter James: "I think what is forgotten is how many of the greatest writers of the past wrote what we would call crime today."

You are one of the most lauded crime writers in the UK – and loved and read by many Scandinavians. For anyone who has not yet taken part of your particular world of crime – how would you introduce the...

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