RUHR 2010 Book Fair
German-Turkish Book Fair and Literature Festival
At the RUHR Book Fair / Photo: Sascha Kraus
Orhan Pamuk, Elif Safak, Asli Erdogan - those are the names of bestseller authors whose books fly off the shelves - at the RUHR Book Fair. Novelists, crime writers, poets, philosophers - all with links to Turkey. For ten days, Turkish and German authors and writers of Turkish descent will present and discuss their work and the latest happenings.
The diversity of Turkish literature and publications will be examined within a wide range of topics.
The RUHR Book Fair has enriched literary life in the Ruhr Metropolis for the last six years. In a region inhabited by people from 171 nations and with more than 100 languages, this project has become an indispensable event. Indeed, a Turkish-language book fair is in fact not promoting a "foreign" language at all. Every second young person in the Ruhr region has a migration background and migrants of Turkish descent (who number over 300,000) are the largest immigrant group. In NRW as a whole there are more than 900,000 people of Turkish descent.
During the European Capital of Culture year, the RUHR Book Fair again promises to be a popular event and will be organised as usual into a number of categories. Key topics, literature in film, interactive readings for children and a forum for debate are all designed to offer a customised literature experience for specific communities.
22 October 2010 – 31 October 2010
University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen Campus, Glass Pavilion, daily from 10 a.m. - 10 p.m.
Free admission
Organising body: Interkulturelles Bildungszentrum e.V.
Partners: Minister-President of the State of NRW/Literature Development Office, Ministry for the Generations, Family, Women and Integration of the State of NRW, Robert Bosch Foundation, Heinrich Böll Foundation, City of Essen/Office of Culture, Sparkasse Essen, Hürriyet, Milliyet