Latest news and stories about literary festival in Portugal for expats and residents.
The Óbidos Literary Festival, taking place between 8 and 18 October under the theme 'Beyond the skin', will feature Nobel Prize in Literature winner Jon Fosse among its guests and will mark the launch of a new advisory board.
The literary festival returns to Penafiel between 20 and 25 October. In recent editions, Escritaria honoured Maria do Rosário Pedreira in 2025 and Arnaldo Antunes in 2024.
One of the most prominent contemporary thinkers, the Korean Byung-Chul Han, believes that democracy is at risk due to social media and the way it fragments reality. The philosopher, based in Germany, was recently in Porto to participate in the Babell Literary Festival.
One of the most prominent contemporary thinkers, the Korean Byung-Chul Han, believes that democracy is at risk due to social media and the way it fragments reality. The philosopher, based in Germany, was recently in Porto to participate in the Babell Literary Festival.
The Babell Literary Festival, in the city of Porto, highlighted poetry by offering a real-life listening experience of 11 poems by Portuguese authors.
Porto has transformed into a large “book-city” today. The first edition of BABELL has begun, a literary festival that brings together the greatest writers and names in global thought.
An initiative that brings together great figures of world literature in the city. The inauguration was attended by the President of the Republic, who stressed that books are an “antidote against extremism.”
The literary festival that brings the world to the city and takes its name from Borges' infinite library begins this Wednesday in Porto. Next weekend, the Invicta will have the highest concentration of international writers per square metre, from Salman Rushdie, Byung-Chul Han, or Margaret Atwood to Nobel laureates Olga Tokarczuk and László Krasznahorkai.
Fifty bookstores in Porto have joined the proposal to participate in the literary festival organised by Lello: every book purchased is worth a ticket to go and listen to a favourite writer.
The programmer of Babell, which brings Atwood, Rushdie and Tokarczuk to Porto, says that the owners of Lello — who have done 'a lot for the city' — invested more than 3 million and that the impact will be measurable.
The first edition of the literary festival kicks off on the 24th and runs until the 29th.
The book fair, which had not been held since 2014, will return on October 2nd, and the first edition of the festival will begin five days later under the theme “Before it's too late”.
The 16th edition of the Tomar literary festival takes place from Thursday to Saturday. Highlights include debates on the author's work, AI, and a performance featuring music by Yuri Marchese.
The ninth edition of the festival will take place in the municipalities of Arganil, Lousã, Condeixa-a-Nova, and Coimbra, with this year's theme being 'Genocides, the dark interior of Humanity'.
The 10th edition of the literary festival takes place between 17 and 24 April in Nelas, a municipality in the Viseu district with deep roots in the writer's work and memory.
The full programme for the first edition of the Babell literary festival includes Hungarian author László Krasznahorkai, winner of the 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature, as the main highlight for the event taking place in Porto from 24 to 29 June.
The literary event will take place from 24 to 29 June. Julian Barnes, Conceição Evaristo, and Héctor Abad Faciolince are the other new additions to the programme.
It promises to be one of the biggest literary events of the summer, bringing great writers from Portugal and around the world to Porto. Two Nobel laureates will attend Babell, which will also feature a unique concert bringing together Abrunhosa and GNR.
A new literary festival takes place in public spaces across the city between 24 and 29 June. In addition to the Nobel laureates, Julian Barnes and a joint concert by GNR and Pedro Abrunhosa are also on the programme.
The literary festival and the celebration of Francophone culture are joined by the Berry Singers, the Lisbon Metropolitan Orchestra, chanfana dishes, and traditional crochet lace.
The writer will travel to Portugal to present the book at the Correntes d'Escritas Festival.
Winners and finalists of the 2025 Booker Prize arrive in Portugal for the first time. Agustina Bessa-Luís, Shakespeare, Sylvia Plath, Slavoj Žižek and Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida are among the new additions.
