Renowned authors, familiar voices of literature, and literary newcomers have accepted their invitations to Hausach in recent years. The authors and poets came from the entire German-speaking area like Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Italy and Belgium, and from around the world: India, Egypt, the USA, Mexico, Russia, Poland, Czech Republic, Japan, Nigeria and other African countries.
This year, the Poetry International Festival Rotterdam turns 50! The milestone makes it the oldest festival in the city, and one of the oldest in the country, with a wealth of history and highlights. Nobel Prize-winning poets once stood on Poetry’s stages as bright young talents, and the festival is both a shining example for, and founding parent of, poetry festivals worldwide. Poetry International celebrates its golden anniversary with an extra festive edition at de Doelen, which also hosted the debut festival back in 1970.
Trailblazing poets will deliver transformative work thrumming with the now. Unique fusions of poetry by engaging artists from the worlds of music, cinema, and dance amplify the power, the beauty, and the personal impact of poetry, here in the form of an intimate reading or workshop, there as a multidisciplinary theatrical poetry spectacle. Right in the heart of the city, inviting, challenging, unmissable.
It first took place in 1933. Today, the over 350 stalls set up along the Paseo de Carruajes avenue in Madrid’s Retiro park not only offer the public the chance to discover the latest literary offerings, but also to meet their favourite writers. Every day, the bookshops and publishing companies organise book-signing sessions featuring the most popular authors. What’s more, you’ll find all kinds of books arranged on the different stands, which you can buy at a very attractive discount.
The Lisboa Book Fair returns to Parque Eduardo VII for yet another edition, offering a diverse program of events with debates, presentations, launches, and autograph sessions, as well as activities for families and children. It is also an opportunity for visitors to sample some traditional specialties in the food court, as they make their way through the fair. Until 16th June, every day from 12.30 pm to midnight, at Parque Eduardo VII (metro: Marquês de Pombal, São Sebastião). Free entry.
Hay Festival brings readers and writers together to share stories and ideas in sustainable events around the world. The festivals inspire, examine and entertain, inviting participants to imagine the world as it is and as it might be.
Nobel Prize-winners and novelists, scientists and politicians, historians and musicians talk with audiences in a dynamic exchange of ideas. Hay Festival’s global conversation shares the latest thinking in the arts and sciences with curious audiences live, in print and digitally. Hay Festival also runs wide programmes of education work supporting coming generations of writers and culturally hungry audiences of all ages.