On 1 December 2014 Granada was officially granted membership of the UNESCO Creative Cities Network (UCCN) in the Literature category. Granada was the first Spanish-language City of Literature to be afforded this distinction.
Our project
After a break in 2020 due to covid-19, in 2021 the Granada International Writers-in-Residence Programme has once again launched a worldwide call for applications through …
The cooperation between Granada and Heidelberg UNESCO Cities of Literature Heidelberg is once again reflected in the invitation to creators from Granada to participate in …
Granada UNESCO City of Literature, which depends on Granada City Council’s Department for the Arts, in partnership with the University of Granada (through its University …
We call “Granada is Literature” the set of activities in collaboration between the programme Granada City of Literature (belonging to the Department of Culture of …
UNESCO Cities of Literature strive every day to improve life outcomes and wellbeing for their communities. As the world battles the COVID-19 pandemic, the network …
These past weeks has seen a global outbreak of Coronavirus (COVD-19), including in many UNESCO Cities of Literature across the world. Our thoughts and admiration …
Granada’s bookshops
We have devised this project with several objectives: to bring to the fore the quality, quantity, diversity and richness of Granada’s bookshops; to realise their potential for visibility and promotion; to build bridges between bookshops a nd the reading public; to generate self-esteem and added value; to develop a link between the specific ambit of bookshops and the general sphere of cultural and tourism development in Granada; and to bring bookshops together under a unified concept, idea or image of quality to add to the list of the city’s cultural attractions.
Meet our Network of Bookshops
Once again, as a result of the collaboration with Heidelberg UNESCO City of Literature, creators from the city of Granada have been invited to participate …
Wonju City of Literature offers a chance for writers from Cities of Literature to come to Wonju and stay in Toji Cultural Centre for our …
Bucheon (Republic of Korea), a UNESCO Creative City of Literature, has launched the Call for the second edition of the “Bucheon Residency Programme”. The residency …