To find out more about the Garden City Literary Festival, check out their website as well as their blog, The Voice.
Each year World Book Capital is given by UNESCO to a city which has committed itself to promoting books and reading, and to highlight the vitality of literary creativity. According to UNESCO, the nomination does not imply any financial prize, but it is an exclusively symbolic acknowledgement of the best programme dedicated to books an reading.
Port Harcourt is the 14th city (and the 2nd African city - the first was Alexandria in 2002) to be designated World Book Capital. Past World Book Capitals were Madrid (2001), Alexandria (2002), New Dehli (2003), Antwerp (2004), Montreal (2005), Turin (2006), Bogota (2007), Amsterdam (2008), Beirut (2009), Ljubljana (2010), Buenos Aires (2011), Yerevan (2012) and Bangkok (2013).
Port Harcourt will be World Book Capital from April 23 2014 - April 22 2015, and you can find out more here.
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