Some prominent guests throughout the years at the Göteborg Book Fair


A list of some of our guests 1995 - 1985



Doris Lessing
1995
Edward W. Said, Jayne Anne Phillips, USA, Doris Lessing, David Attenborough, Rosamund Pilcher, Minette Walters, UK, Salman Rushdie, UK-India, Bei Dao, China-France, Günter Wallraff, Germany, Josyane Savigneau, Hector Biancotti, France, Orhan Pamuk, Yasar Kemal, Turkey, Seamus Heaney, Ireland


Norman Mailer: "This is fantastic! I want to come back!"
1994
Günter Grass, Gudrun Pausewang, Monica Maron, Germany, Péter Nádas, Hungary, Terry Pratchett, UK, Marilyn French, Norman Mailer, USA, Ryszard Kapuscinsky, Poland, Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Russia, Vikram Seth, India, Alan Lomax, Andrew Vachss, USA, António Jobo Antunés, Portugal, Aziz Nesin, Turkey, Fatima Mernissi, Morocco, Michael Ondaatje, Canada, Margrit de Moor, The Netherlands, Margret Atwood, Canada


Ben Okri
1993
Hugo Loetscher, Urs Widmer, Switzerland, Simon Wiesenthal, Austria, Derek Walcott, Trinidad, Herta Müller, Germany, Alberta Bels, Jânis Ramba, Latvia, Jack Mapanje, Malawi, Peter Estherazy, Hungary, Dermot Bolger, Ireland, Oscar Hijuelos, Cuba-USA, Joseph Brodsky, USSR-USA, Jamaica Kincaid, Donald Spots, USA, Ben Okri, Nigeria


Christine Nöstlinger
1992
Margaret Drabble, Julian Barnes, UK, Harlan Ellison, William Kennedy, Elisabeth George, Germaine Greer, Art Spiegelman, Helen Zahavi, Douglas Adams, USA, Wolf Biermann, Peter Schneider, Doris Gercke, Germany, USA, Oriana Fallaci, Italy, Christine Nöstlinger, Austria, Michelle Magorian, Australia, Hugo Claus, Belgium, England, Amos Oz, Israel, György Konrád, Hungary


Mickey Spillane: "A thrilling fair, a thrilling city!"
1991
José Saramago, Portugal, Joao Ubaldo Ribeiro, Brazil, Pere Gimfeller, Spain, Sarah Kirsch, Wolf Biermann, Stefan Heym, Germany, Erica Jong, Richard Ford, Paul Auster, Mickey Spillane, USA, Angeles Mastretta, Mexico, Francisco Sionil José, The Philippines, Alexandre Jardin, France, Colleen McCullough, New Zealand


Arthur Hailey: "This is the most complete and best organized fair I’ve ever visited – and the most enjoyable!"
1990
Margaret Atwood, Canada, Hesham Bahari, Vizma Belsevica, Latvia, Lygia Boljunga Nunes, Lydia Fagundes Telles, Darcy Ribeiro, Ana Miranda, Brazil, Willy Brandt, Ulla Hahn, Germany, Vladimir Dudintsev, D Prigov, Arkadij Vaksberg, M Ajzenberg, Russia, Sigtas Geda, Lithuania, Shusha Guppy, Iran, PD James, UK, Ivan Klima, Stéphàn Zavrel, Czech Republic, Quim Monzo, Jordi Porta, Catalonia-Spain, Robert Ludlum , Sarah Paretsky, Bob Woodward, Arthur Hailey , USA, Margaret Yorke, UK, Helga Schütz, DDR, Adonis, Libya



Jackie Collins &
Bertil Falck

1989
Nadine Gordimer, South Africa, Yasar Kemal, Turkey, Nawal El-Saadawi, Egypt, Robertson Davies, Canada, Tjingiz Ajtmatov, Soviet Union, Elmore Leonard, E L Doctorow, Maurice Sendak, Jackie Collins, USA, Alberto Moravia, Italy, Ruth Rendell, UK, Tahar Ben Jelloun, Morocco, Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Switzerland


Fay Weldon: "To get an invitation to the Göteborg Book Fair almost felt, I believe, like getting the Nobel Prize!"
1988
Jan Wolkers, The Netherlands, Bruno Kreisky, Austria, Ed McBain, Art Spiegelman, Jay McInervey, Tama Janowitz, USA, Joseph Brodsky, USSR-USA, Isabel Allende, Chile, Marie Cardinal, France, Aidan Chambers, Fay Weldon, UK


Joyce Carol Oates
1987
Iris Murdoch, PD James, Roald Dahl, Margaret Drabble, Michael Holroyd, UK, Valentin Rasputin, USSR, Jean M Auel, John Updike, Dr Ruth, Joyce Carol Oates, Jayne Anne Phillips, Jack Higgins, USA, Bernard-Henri Lévy, France, Zhang Jie, China, Wole Soyinka, Nigeria, Ernesto Cardenal, Nicaragua


Anthony Burgess
1986
André Brink, South Africa, Anthony Burgess, Lee Falk, USA, Régine Deforges, France, Ken Follett, Doris Lessing, UK, Christine Nöstlinger, Austria

Isaac B Singer 1985
Isaac B Singer, USA, Neil Postman, USA, Michael Ende, West Germany

Our guests 1996-2006