Industry | Bookstore |
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Founded | 5 May 1966 |
Headquarters | Nuuk, Greenland |
Area served | Greenland |
Key people | Dorthe and Claus Jordening[1] |
Products | Books |
Website | atuagkat.com |
Atuagkat Bookstore (Greenlandic for "books") is Greenland's leading bookstore, located in the capital Nuuk. It is located at Aqqusinersuaq 4, opposite Hotel Hans Egede and Greenland Travel.
Atuagkat Bookstore is today one of two bookstores in Greenland, the other being in Ilulissat.
Atuagkat Bookstore (colloquially Atuagkat) has a wide range of books within, among other things, fiction, biographies and memoirs, children's literature, English literature for young people, in addition to the world's largest collection of Groenlandica within the bookstore industry, including an extensive antiquarian collection of Greenlandic publications. Atuagkat also has a wide range of games, posters, and maps of Greenland.
Atuagkat conducts trade locally in Nuuk, but also nationwide and internationally via their website, just as they accept inquiries by telephone, per email and via social media.
Atuagkat was founded on 5 May 1966[2] and is Greenland's oldest bookstore.