Hosted by İzmir Metropolitan Municipality and organised in partnership with İZFAŞ and SNS Fuarcılık at fuarizmir, İZKİTAP – İzmir Book Fair opens its doors to visitors on 28 October 2023. Having carved out a distinctive place among book fairs in its very first year with 80 talks and more than 800 signing sessions, İZKİTAP will once again bring hundreds of outstanding writers, illustrators, journalists and academics together with their readers through signing days, events and talks. İZKITAP will also offer book lovers a cultural feast with the finest cultural publishers, educational publishers, second-hand booksellers and auctions, international guest authors and exhibitions.
The “Guest of Honour” of İZKİTAP – İzmir Book Fair, which with the support of İZELMAN A.Ş. will bring authors and publishers together with book lovers and the industry as a whole, is the poet and writer Birhan Keskin. At the fair, hundreds of distinguished writers, poets and illustrators – among them Ayşe Kulin, Canan Tan, İlber Ortaylı, Mert Arık, Şermin Yaşar, Şükrü Erbaş, Timur Soykan and Umut Sarıkaya – will meet their readers at signing days and talks.
Hosting more than 30 fairs and events a year with thousands of local and international exhibitors and visitors, fuarizmir – with its indoor and outdoor exhibition areas, seminar halls, café areas, free car park for 2,500 vehicles, shuttle services and many other facilities – will welcome every part of the publishing sector, civil society organisations and book lovers from 28 October to 5 November 2023.
To make it easier for İzmir residents to reach fuarizmir, İzmir Metropolitan Municipality has set up special transport lines for İZKİTAP. In addition to bus lines 92 Üçyol Metro–Fuar İzmir, 610 Gaziemir Semt Garajı–Fuar İzmir, 650 Fahrettin Altay–Fuar İzmir and 540 Lozan Meydanı–Fuar İzmir, there will be regular services to fuarizmir from Bornova Metro Station and the Şirinyer İZBAN interchange. School pupils will also be brought to İZKİTAP by shuttle buses.
Tens of thousands of book lovers are expected to visit the fair over its nine days. It will be open to visitors free of charge from 10:00 to 20:00.
