The Live Literature Market Brings Together Authors, Booksellers and Readers

The Goethe-Institut is excited to invite you to be part of the Live Literature Market on Saturday, 12 April 2025. The event serves as a vibrant gathering of authors, booksellers, and readers, happening alongside the closing of the #WNSLegacyX Exhibition. Here’s what you need to know.

Goethe-Institut Live LiteratureMarket Speaker, Lesedi Molefi — Award-winning author, Lesedi Molefi

What is the Live Literature Market all about?

The Live Literature Market is your chance to showcase your books, connect with literature lovers, and engage with a community passionate about storytelling. Featured guest speakers for the event include award-winning author of Patient 12A Lesedi Molefi, black literature podcasters Cheeky Natives, and actress, singer, writer, and coach Lwazilubanzi Mthembu.

If you’re an independent author looking to share your work or a bookseller eager to connect with new audiences, this market is the perfect space to celebrate literature in all its forms. Take this opportunity to showcase your work and register for the market now!

Cost: FREE entry. The restaurant will be open on the day | Authors and booksellers register to be a part of the market via Google Form

When: Saturday, 12 April 2025 from 12pm
Where: Goethe-Institut South Africa, 119 Jan Smuts Ave, Parkwood, Johannesburg

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More about the Goethe-Institut

The Goethe-Institut aims to cultivate international and local cultural exchange through the arts, sciences and languages. With over 100 institutes worldwide, and 14 in the sub-Saharan region, including the one in Johannesburg, the Goethe-Institut is committed to fostering transnational diversity, understanding and trust.

The Johannesburg institute’s Language department offers German lessons in the Goethe-Institut and otherwise, supporting German teachers in the country and working closely with the South African Department of Education.

Their Library and Information Department works in partnership with libraries and other institutions involved in book and reading promotion in South Africa and encourages exchanges between information specialists and publishers in South Africa, sub-Saharan Africa and Germany.

And their Cultural Programmes Department focuses on a variety of different artistic approaches from the visual arts to drama, dance, literature, film, and others to support the local cultural scenes and strengthen pan-African dialogue through the arts.