TiBE 2019 Yearly Theme: Time for Reading

TiBE 2019 Guest of Honor: Germany

The 27th Taipei International Book Exhibition in 2019 received wide acclaim with 735 exhibitors from 52 countries, 1184 reading events, 1440 rights meetings, and 580,000 visits. In addition, the “New Semester Starts in TiBE” event brought in an impressive number of student groups.

This year, TIBE welcomed international authors and local literary giants such as Pai Hsien-yung, Huang Chun-ming, and Wu Ming-yi, as well as celebrities (including actors, singers, and politicians), had speeches or signing events at the book fair. With the participation of these well-known faces, TiBE 2019 set a new one-day attendance record with more than 160,000 visits on 2/10.

Guest of honor Germany brought a large delegation of 13 authors to Taipei. Their events were packed with passionate readers, and the pavilion was crowded with excited visitors taking photos in Bauhaus costumes. While other international exhibitors saw business opportunities from fruitful rights meetings held during the exhibition.

Apart from featuring books, TiBE invited Taiwanese artist Page Tsou to curate the “Taiwan/Bologna 30 exhibition”, which showcased 235 works from Taiwanese illustrators’ that were selected by the Bologna Illustrators Exhibition over the past 30 years.