The annual Việt Nam Book Day (April 21) kicked off yesterday in Hà Nội with various activities at Thống Nhất Park and the National Library.

The Hà Nội Book Festival will take place on October 3-7, highlighting modern reading culture.

Writer Nguyễn Ngọc Tư is announced as the laureate of the Literaturpreis Prize 2018 for the German version of her book Cánh Đồng Bất Tận (Endlose Felder).

For the first time ever, Hanoians will experience Europe Village - a unique cultural entertainment event that will showcase the richness of European cultures in fields ranging from the arts to culinary traditions to lifestyle at the Lý Thái Tổ Statue Garden by Hoàn Kiếm Lake.

HCM City’s annual Book Festival kicks off on Monday (March 19) at Lê Văn Tám Park in District 1.

The book 1987, containing stories of those born in 1987 — the first year after the initiation of the country’s famous Đổi Mới (Renewal) policy—has become a best-seller, with 10,000 copies selling out only three months after its release.

Book lovers in Hà Nội can enjoy Lunar New Year holiday by reading as many books as they can. A book festival will take place at the Book Street on February 18-25.

The Việt Nam Publishing Association has proposed to raise the discount limit on books to 80 per cent instead of the current maximum rate of 50 per cent.

More than 300,000 copies of books and 3,000 student and office accessories are on display at Summer Book Festival 2017, which opened on Friday (June 16) at the HCM City Exhibition House in District 1.

The 24th Budapest International Book Festival was inaugurated on Thursday with the attribution of the Budapest Grand Prize to Turkish winner of Nobel Prize in Literature Orhan Pamuk.