10. INTERNATIONAL BELGRADE BOOK FAIR

The International Belgrade Book Fair  is the most visited cultural event in Serbia. As such, it benefits from an outstanding media coverage and also is one of the oldest and most important literary events in the region.  Its main objective is to provide opportunities for publishers, authors, booksellers, librarians, distributors of books, multimedia companies and other stakeholders, to establish contacts, share experiences, make business arrangements and obtain other forms of business and cultural cooperation. All publishers from Serbia and most respected publishers in the region at the Fair present their annual publishing production.

International Belgrade Book Fair is a 8 day event being organized in October at the Hall 1, Hall 2, Hall 1A, Hall 4 in Belgrade, Serbia. This event showcases products like fiction, religion and theology, practical books, antique books, computer books and periodicals etc. in the Book industry.

The first Yugoslav Book Fair was held in 1956, at Zagreb Fair. In the following year, 1957, the Fair was moved to Belgrade, where the construction of a modern fair ground was completed.

The 60th Anniversary International Belgrade Book Fair was finished during the last, 2015 year. 

In 2012, there were 150,798 visitors at the Fair. Based upon the organizer's data, in 2012, the Fair was followed by 1.275 accredited journalists, of which 71 were international. According to a research conducted in 2010 among Belgrade citizens by Strategic Marketing, the Book Fair was chosen as the largest brand of Belgrade.

The so-called School Day has been organized at the Fair since 2005, which encompasses organized visits of pupils, students, professors and school librarians, as well as many side event programs intended for them.

Also Several prizes are awarded during the Belgrade Book Fair:

• Publisher of the Year,
• Publishing Project of the Year,
• Children's Book of the Year
• The Most Beautiful Book.

In addition to these prizes, the Dositej Obradović Prize has also been awarded since 2007, to an international publisher, for his continuous contribution to publishing and promotion of Serbian literature.