Open Book Festival
open book festival annual literary festival held cape town south africa focus south african literature international context event includes literary event featuring author day although south african literature feature prominently literature across world also featured anglophone francophone author featuring prominently festival event main venue event located fugard theatre also includes nearby venue cape town district museum homecoming centre townhouse hotel slave lodge museum national gallery central library lobby book first open book festival held event initiated mervyn sloman book lounge cape townbased bookshop ben williams book live literary focused subsidiary south african newspaper time live festival founded bring best literature world cape town promote south african writing internationally make book literature accessible young reader event noted representative drawing wider range author south african book festival event fall one following subevents particular focus poetica twodaylong programme event focused poetry comic book fest focus comic book graphic novel author number panel discussion workshop presentation event focused author youth programme number event focus encouraging love book amongst young people open book festival broke guinness book world record world longest book chain consisting book open book festival cape town central library break guinness world record open book festival june