First time we went to the Book Fair was just a few months after we arrived, as Sweden was the Guest of Honour in 2014. It was really exciting, we met famous authors, joined a cook-a-long and did a lot of fun things in the Swedish booth.
The following year we returned again, because there was a huge celebration for Pippi Långstrump in 2015, on her 70th anniversary. And do we like Princess Cake.., oh yes!!
So it had been quite a few years since I was last at the Abu Dhabi
International Book Fair, but this year I really wanted to go. For this the 33rd edition, the whole
fair was centered around the theme of tales. Also they had chosen Kalila wa Dimna as the "Book of the World", the one book each year that has influenced the literary and cultural process around the world, and whose influence has spread across cultures and time.
I took my friend Michaela, and we went to have a wonder for a couple of hours on Saturday afternoon.
It was huge, lots to look at! Like a giant tree made up out of books, and a portrait of Sheikh Zayed made with falcon feathers:
The Louvre Abu Dhabi booth was beautiful!
I found out they were premiering a new publication called Pearls of Wisdom, a book I have been waiting for a long time. It is a book made up out of the quotes that you find on the windows all over the museum. So many of our visitors gets moved by them, and this is really the perfect souvenir from a visit at the museum.
We also found the Swedish publisher, with lots of titles we knew:
Love love love books!
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