Date:August 13-19

Time:Mon-Thu 9am to 9pm; Fri-Sun 9am to 10pm

Tickets:10 yuan (5 yuan after 6pm)

The city’s annual book fair will open next Wednesday at Shanghai Exhibition Center and visitors can meet some prominent guest speakers such as Nobel-winning author Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul and Pulitzer-winning novelist Robert Olen Butler and poet Robert Hass.

The book fair’s organizer has scheduled various topical seminars, including the Shanghai Economist Summer Forum, serial talks from the Shanghai Association for Science & Technology, Super Bookstore Forum and academic seminars with economists, philosophers and historians discussing domestic and international subjects.