Europe’s vast range of literary events includes some of the oldest and most venerated in the world. Use the search menu below to find events across the continent.
The international HeadRead literary festival in Tallinn, the capital of Estonia, is organized by writers, publishers and translators and is held in May. It welcomes writers from all over the world and focuses on offering its audience the opportunity to get acquainted not only with the works of various authors, but above all with the authors themselves. The festival has taken place for 12 years and cooperates beyond fiction and non-fiction with theatre, film, and music.
The Baltic Book Fair is held alternately in one of the Baltic capitals of Tallinn, Vilnius and Riga in February. The first fair was held in Tallinn in 1995. It is particularly characterized by the high number of participating countries represented, which increases every year. The biannual fair represents information centers, publishers and larger publishing houses especially from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
Traditionally taking place in the first week of May in Tartu since 2004, the Tartu International Festival Prima Vista features writers, artists, academics, and cultural enthusiasts from different countries to map and make sense of the societal fears and hopes related to the future in the most diverse way possible. It is a cross-disciplinary literary festival that explores the contemporary meaning of utopias and dystopias in an artistic and critical form.
