Open Book Cape Town is an annual literary festival, the first of which happened in 2011. Dates for Open Book 2013 are 7 – 11 September. Authors include Adam Habib, Ian Rankin, Gillian Slovo, Andy Mason and Conrad Botes, amongst others. Full list of authors and programme available from their website openbookfestival.co.za.
Literary Tourism is tourism that deals with places and events from fictional texts as well as the lives of their authors. This could include following the route a fictional character charts in a novel, visiting particular settings from a story or tracking down the haunts of a novelist.
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