Book town
Hay Castle bookshop in Hay-on-Wye, Wales, with other bookshops on the road behind
A book town is a town or village with many used book or antiquarian book stores. These stores, as well as literary festivals, attract bibliophile tourists. Some book towns are members of the International Organisation of Book Towns.[1]
List of book towns[]
Scotland's largest second-hand bookshop in Wigtown
Book towns with known dates of operation[]
- Kaifeng, China (17th century)
- Jinbōchō, Tokyo, Japan (early 1880s)
- Hay-on-Wye, Wales (1961)
- Redu, Belgium (1984)
- Bécherel, France (1988)
- Montolieu, France (1989)
- Bredevoort, Netherlands (1993)
- Saint-Pierre-de-Clages, Switzerland (1993)
- Fontenoy-la-Joûte, France (1993)
- Mundal, Fjærland, Norway (1995)
- Wigtown, Scotland (1997)
- Zossen-Wünsdorf, Germany (1997)
- Damme, Belgium (1997)
- Dalmellington, Scotland (1997, though the last bookseller closed in 2005 and the project has folded)[2]
- Sysmä, Finland (4 July 1997)
- Mühlbeck-Friedersdorf, Germany (1997)
- , Malaysia (3 December 1997)
- Archer City, Texas, U.S. (1999)
- Montmorillon, France in 2000.[3]
- Southern Highlands, Australia (2000)
- Tvedestrand, Norway (2003)
- Sedbergh, England (2003)
- Blaenavon, Wales (28 June 2003,[4] though the project had folded by March 2006)[5]
- Brownville, Nebraska, U.S., (2004)[6]
- Hobart, NY - Book Village of the Catskills[7] (2005)
- Atherstone, Warwickshire (2005)
- Torup, Denmark (2006) [8]
- Richmond, Great Karoo, South Africa (2006)
- , Malaysia [9] (17 April 2007)
- Urueña, Spain (2007) [10]
- Bellprat, Catalonia, Spain (2008)[11]
- Esquelbecq, France (2010) [12]
- Borrby, Sweden (17 July 2011)[13]
- Clunes, Victoria, Australia (2012)
- Montereggio Mulazzo, Italy
- Óbidos, Portugal (2015)
- Featherston, New Zealand (2015)[14]
- Cervera, Catalonia, Spain (2016)
- Montblanc, Catalonia, Spain (2017)
- , India (2017)
- , Catalonia, Spain (2018)
- , Catalonia, Spain (2019)
Book Towns with unknown dates of operation[]
- Sidney, British Columbia, Canada
- Gold Cities BookTown, Grass Valley, California
See also[]
- UNESCO World Book Capital (est. 2001)
References[]
- ^ "International Organisation of Book Towns". www.booktown.net.
- ^ Goodenough, Mike (11 April 2005). "Dalmellington Book Town - on the road to nowhere". TheBookGuide. Archived from the original on 20 July 2011.
- ^ Alex Johnson (5 April 2018). Book Towns. Frances Lincoln (White Lion 2). p. 90. ISBN 978-1-78101-242-0.
- ^ Kennedy, Maev; Correspondent, Heritage (28 June 2003). "Books open new chapter for Plywood City". The Guardian.
- ^ Goodenough, Mike (17 March 2006). "Blaenafon - The Booktown Experiment Fails". TheBookGuide. Archived from the original on 3 July 2010.
- ^ "Welcome to Brownville Nebraska - Events, News and Info". Brownville Nebraska - Merchants of Brownvill.
- ^ "For Those Who Love Books - Home". Hobartbookvillage.com. Retrieved 2013-05-02.
- ^ torupbogby.dk. Torup Bogby home page.
- ^ Book Village Malaysia
- ^ "Turismo Provincia de Valladolid". Diputaciondevalladolid.es. Retrieved 2013-05-02.
- ^ "Bellprat Vila del Llibre". www.viladelllibre.cat. Retrieved 2013-05-02.
- ^ "Esquelbook le site d'Esquelbecq, Village du Livre". esquelbook.com (in French). Retrieved 2 January 2018.
- ^ "Borrby Bokby - Sveriges första bokby". Borrby Bokby.
- ^ "Booktown | Featherston, New Zealand". featherston-booktown. Retrieved 2020-06-06.
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Categories:
- Literary festivals
- Bookstore neighborhoods
- Bookstores
- Bookselling
- Types of towns