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In Sweden, the day is known as Världsbokdagen ("World Book Day") and the copyright aspect is seldom mentioned. Normally celebrated on 23 April, it was moved to 13 April in the year 2000 [8] and 2011 to avoid a clash with Easter. [9]
Overview. It started primarily as a trade fair (for librarians and teachers), but is now the largest literary festival in Scandinavia and the second largest book fair in Europe after the Frankfurt Book Fair. [3] The book fair usually takes place in the last week of September each year. It has around 100,000 visitors and 900 exhibitors annually.
Swedish literature ( Swedish: Svensk litteratur) is the literature written in the Swedish language or by writers from Sweden. [ 1] The first literary text from Sweden is the Rök runestone, carved during the Viking Age circa 800 AD. With the conversion of the land to Christianity around 1100 AD, Sweden entered the Middle Ages, during which ...
This is a list of books released for World Book Day in the UK and Ireland.In 1998 and 1999 a specially created WBD anthology priced at £1 (€1.50 in Ireland) was published.
The Lutheran Church of Sweden was formed and remained the official religion of the Christian state until the turn of the 21st century. In recent years, the Swedish religious landscape has become increasingly diverse, with Christians comprising in 2021 some 59.6% (of which 53.2% belonging to the Church of Sweden) of the total population and ...
In 2011, the first book was returned to the library-an atlas by Cornelius Wytfliet. It had been bought by a map dealer in New York from a Sotheby's auction in 2003. Its value was estimated at $450,000. [15] In 2015, some books were repatriated to Sweden by the U.S. Attorney's Office. [16] In 2021, ten books were returned.
Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark ( 1796) is a personal travel narrative by the eighteenth-century British feminist writer Mary Wollstonecraft. The twenty-five letters cover a wide range of topics, from sociological reflections on Scandinavia and its peoples to philosophical questions regarding identity.
The history of Sweden can be traced back to the melting of the Northern Polar Ice Caps. From as early as 12000 BC, humans have inhabited this area. Throughout the Stone Age, between 8000 BC and 6000 BC, early inhabitants used stone-crafting methods to make tools and weapons for hunting, gathering and fishing as means of survival. [ 1]