Colombo International Book Fair 2016 will be open to the public from 16th to 25th of September 2016 at the Sirimavo Bandaranaike Memorial Exhibition Centre and BMICH premises. 

On the opening day, it will be open from 10.00am to 0.00pm and on the last day of the exhibition, from 9.00am to midnight. Rest of the days the event will be conducted from 9.00am to 9.00pm.

Around 60 international are to convene for this year’s event. Exhibition to be included about 410 bookstalls. Organizers expect more than one million local and international visitors to this year’s event. The entrance ticket will cost Rs.20/-.

Parallel to the exhibition, a Bhasha Snagayanawa (language convocation) to be held on 20th to 22nd September, regarding using the language correctly. 

The Colombo International Book Fair is organized by the Book Publishers’ Association of Sri Lanka and was first held in 1999.