Dua Lipa Is Opening a Physical Library in Portugal
Rolling Stone • • entertainment
Key Points:
- Dua Lipa is launching the Manifesto Library, the first physical extension of her Service95 book club, to promote literary arts and encourage reading worldwide.
- The library will open on June 27 at Livraria Lello, a renowned bookstore in Porto, Portugal, as part of the international BABELL – City of Books festival.
- The collection features nearly 100 books centered on themes of power, control, voice, and memory, including works by Margaret Atwood, Reginald Dwayne Betts, Salman Rushdie, and Olga Tokarczuk.
- Lipa emphasizes that the library highlights banned or censored books and honors authors who have faced persecution, aiming to challenge restrictions on reading and promote open dialogue.
- Livraria Lello's Head of Brand, Francisca Pedro Pinto, supports the initiative as a defense of reading as a "technology of freedom" essential to society's ability to imagine and shape its future.
