PREVIOUS EDITIONS

Visitors' number: 25 000
Motto: "Man lives by change" Stanislaw Lem
Fair's Guests e.g.: prof. Jerzy Bralczyk, Ałbena Grabowska, Thomas Arnold, Mariusz Szczygieł, Andrzej Pilipiuk, Denis Urubko, Krzysztof Wielicki, Janusz Leon Wiśniewski i Ewelina Wojdyło, Magdalena Wolińska-Riedi, Nela Mała Reporterka, Jacek Komuda, Marisa de Lempicka, Mery Spolsky, Ten Typ Mes

- discounts from publishers and distributors, valid during the fair week (October 19-25, 2020)
- discounts in bookstores in Krakow, valid during the market week (October 19-25, 2020)

Exhibitors' number: 572
Visitors' number: 68 000
Motto: „By reading, I could live more intensely" Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Guest: Germany - German Stories
Fair's Guests e.g.: prof. Jerzy Bralczyk, Anna Kamińska, Marek Krajewski, Andrzej Maleszka, Brandon Mull, Tomasz Organek, Beata Pawlikowska, Samantha Shannon, Philip Zimbardo

Exhibitors' number: 615
Visitors' number: more than 68 000
Motto: „Books are doors that lead out into the street" Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Guest of honour: Sweden
Fair's Guests e.g.: Sylwia Chutnik, Robert Biedroń, prof. Jerzy Bralczyk, Katarzyna Grochola, Jacek Hugo-Bader, Mons Kallentoft, Małgorzata i Michał Kuźmińscy, Anna Lewandowska, Åsa Lind, Herman Lindqvist, Beata Pawlikowska, Krzysztof Pleśniarowicz, Henryk Sawka, Thomas Sjöberg, Andrzej Strejlau, Maciej Stuhr, Vincent V. Severski, Janusz Leon Wiśniewski

Exhibitors' number: nearly 700
Visitors' number: more than 70 000
Motto: „I read and am liberated" Fernando Pessoa
Guest of honour: France
Fair's Guests e.g.: Camilla Läckberg, Zygmunt Miłoszewski, Remigiusz Mróz, Nela Mała Reporterka, Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt, Nicholas Sparks, Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt, Jerzy Stuhr

Exhibitors' number: nearly 700
Visitors' number: more than 68 000
Motto: „To read you need to be open-minded" Etgar Keret
Guest of honour: Israel
Fair's Guests e.g. : Katarzyna Bonda, Guido van Genechten, Wojciech Kuczok, Eshkol Nevo, Peter Seewald, Zeruya Shalev, Filip Springer, Martyna Wojciechowska

Exhibitors' number: 700
Visitors' number: 68 000
Motto: „Reading makes you bold" Nina George
Guest of honour: Lithuania
Fair's Guests e.g. : C.J. Daugherty, Hanna Krall, Nina George, Remigiusz Mróz, Rasa Rimickaite, Mariusz Szczygieł, Janusz Leon Wisniewski, Adam Zagajewski

Exhibitors' number: 696
Visitors' number: 60 000
Motto: „Thinking always begins with reading" Tadeusz Gadacz
Guest of honour: Hungary
Fair's Guests e.g. : Leonardo Patrignani, Anna Dymna, Edward Łysiak, Jerzy Illg, Grzegorz Kasdepke, Antoni Kroh, Emilio Pascual Martin

Exhibitors' number: 570
Visitors' number: 40 000
Motto: „Who read - do not ask!”
Guest of honour Salon of Regions: Kaszuby and Gdańsk
Fair's Guests e.g.: prof. Jerzy Bralczyk, Ignacy Karpowicz, Åsa Elena Larsson, o. Leon Knabit OSB, Carlo A. Martigli, Zygmunt Miłoszewski, Andrzej Pilipiuk, Andrzej Stasiuk

Exhibitors' number: 562
Visitors' number: 34 000
Motto: „This is why I exist, to read books…" Clare Morrall
Guest of honour Salon of Regions: Podhale
Fair's Guests e.g.: Władysław Bartoszewski, Sorj Chalandon, Dorothy Cummings, Julia Hartwig, Jacek Hugo-Bader, Roberto Innocenti, Marek Krajewski, Szahrnusz Parsipur

Exhibitors' number: 539
Visitors' number: 35 000
Motto: „This is not the end of the books” Umberto Eco
Fair's Guests e.g: Władysław Bartoszewski, Janusz Głowacki, Mo Hayder, Michel Houellebecq, Marianne Malone, Chris Niedenthal

Exhibitors' number: 453
Visitors' number: 31 500
Motto: „An hour spent reading is one stolen from paradise.” Thomas Wharton
Fair's Guests e.g: Jeffrey Archer, Władysław Bartoszewski, Marlena de Blasi, Delphine de Vigan, Julia Hartwig, Eustachy Rylski, Roberto Salvadori, Serhij Żadan

Exhibitors' number: 481
Visitors' number: 24 900
Motto: „Who reads books, he lives a double” Umberto Eco
Fair's Guests e.g.: Marek Bieńczyk, Julia Hartwig, Etgar Keret, Petra Morrsbach, Jerzy Pilch, Atiq Rahimi, Leila Rasheed, Anda Rottenberg, Olga Tokarczuk

Exhibitors' number: 482
Visitors' number: 23 530
Fair's Guests e.g.: Jurij Andruchowycz, Darren Baker, Joe Bialowitz, Philip Bialowitz, Jacek Dukaj, Paweł Huelle, Michele Lesbre, Jerzy pilch, Dina Rubina

Exhibitors' number: 436
Visitors' number: 19 335
Fair's Guests e.g.: Philipp Vandenberg, Władysław Bartoszewski, Jonathan Carroll, Julia Hartwig, Sławomir Mrożek, Sven Nordqvist, Barbara Toruńczyk, Jerzy Strzelczyk, Marek Krajewski, Felicitas Hoppe, Jorge Molist

Exhibitors' number: 409
Visitors' number: 18 787
Fair's Guests e.g.: Wiktor Suworow, Sylvie Germain, Maxim Chattam, Marek Krajewski, Adam Wajrak, Ludwik Jerzy Kern, Anna Świderkówna, Sławomi Mrożek

Exhibitors' number: 367
Visitors' number: 18 350
Fair's Guests e.g.: Norman Davies, katarzyna Grochola, Kazuo Ishiguro, Stanisław Lem, Sławomir Mrożek, Andrzej Stasiuk, Władysław Bartoszewski, Stefan Chwin

Exhibitors' number: 331
Visitors; number: 18 300
Fair's Guests e.g.: Ryszard Kapuściński, Wojciech Jagielski, Wiktor Jerofiejew, Wojciech Cerjrowski, Ewa Lipska, Roberto Salvadori, Stanisław Lem, Olga Tokarczuk, Chris Niedenthal

Exhibitors' number: 303
Visitors' number: 24 424
Guest of honour: Russia
Fair's Guests.: Ludwik Jerzy Kern, Stanisław Lem, Ewa Lipska, Andrzej Mleczko, Sławomir Mrożek, Herta Müller, Adam Zagajewski, Olga Tokarczuk, Jean-Pierre Milovanoff

Exhibitors' number: 298
Visitor's number: 19 511
Guest of honour: Republic of Hungary
Fair Guests: Wisława Szymborska, Sławomir Mrożek, Tadeusz Różewicz, Dorota Masłowska

Exhibitors' number: 255
Visitors' number: 16 800
Guest of honour: France
Fair's Guests: Colette Samson, Jean-Christoph Ruffin, Frederic Beigbeder, Wiesław Myśliwski, Francois Boucq, Andrzej Wajda

Exhibitors's number: 248
Visitors' number: 15 900
Guest of honour: Austria
Fair's Guests.: Stanisław Lem, Czesław Miłosz, Andrzej Sapkowski, ks. Jan Twardowski, Jean-Marie Laclavetine

Exhibitors' number: 227
Visitors' number: 11 600
Fair's Guests e.g.: Czesław Miłosz, Stanisław Lem, Zdzisław Beksiński, Sławomir Mrożek

Exhibitors' number: 206
Visitors' number: 8000
Fair's Guests: Czesław Miłosz, Stanisław Lem, Norman Davies, Jonathan Carroll, Andrzej Wajda
1st edition of Jan Długosz Contest

Exhibitors' number: 140
Visitors' number: 4700
Fair's Guests e.g.: Stanisław Lem, Wisława Szymborska