48 th International Kolkata Book Fair to begin in January 28

The International Kolkata Book Fair happens to be the biggest festival in our state after Durga Puja. The upcoming 48^th International Kolkata Book Fair will commence from January 28 and will continue till February 9 2025 and will take place at Boimela Prangan, Karunamoyee, Salt Lake.
Currently the International Kolkata Book Fair is the world's largest attended non-trade book festival. Twenty-seven lakh book lovers visited the last book fair in 2024 and the book sales amounted to Rs 23 crores. As happy as we are at this astounding success, we are also a bit worried. Many new publishers have applied to participate in the upcoming book fair, but as the size of the fairground remains the same, we deeply regret to inform that the number of stalls cannot be increased from that of the last year. We are planning to make the fairground more visitors friendly.
For the first time in the history of the International Kolkata Book Fair, Germany, a country with rich cultural heritage and literary legacy will be the Focal Theme Country in the International Kolkata Book Fair 2025.
In this context we would like to mention that the idea of organising the Kolkata Book Fair for the first time in 1976 came from Germany's iconic Frankfurt Book Fair.
Like every year, Great Britain, USA, France, Italy, Spain, Peru, Argentina, Colombia and other Latin American Countries are participating in the upcoming book fair. Besides, there are publications of other states of India, such as Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Haryana, Punjab, Tamil Nadu, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Bihar, Assam, Jharkhand, Telangana, Kerala, Odisha, etc. As always, there will be the Little Magazine Pavilion, the Children's Pavilion and other such attractions.