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 Festival of Crime Fiction by the Monogram bookstore aims to support this popular genre and focuses on encouraging writers in the field of crime. Over several days in May and July, writing workshops, debates, interactive games and other creative events take place in the city of Athens. Some of the most important representatives of the genre are present at the fair.
The LEA Festival in Athens is the top cultural event in Greece focusing on the dissemination of the Latin American, Spanish and Portuguese language and literature. The festival is intended as a cultural meeting promoting reading, intercultural dialogue as well as exchange of ideas and entertainment and is usually held in June.
First held in 2004, the Thessaloniki International Book Fair aims to create a new meeting point for cultural and commercial exchanges in the field of international publishing. The Thessaloniki Book Fair is the only international book fair held in Greece and attracts more than 400 book professionals from Greece and abroad. More than 65,000 people visit the fair each year in May.
