Marguerite Duras is an author who always “comes back”, recently thanks to several Catalan independent publishing houses: Club Editor, in 2010, with Moderato cantabile; LaBreu, in 2014, with La tarda del senyor [...]
The publishing houses Buc, AdiA, Cafè Central and LaBreu —sponsored by LIBERISLIBER— launch together the Francesc Garriga Poetry Prize, open to all poets with no [...]
To keep up with the tradition, on Saturday night we will know which wonderful books —due to their quality and heterodoxy— are the winners of the Liberisliber Xic Imago Prize, the Liberisliber Xic Textus Prize, the Liberisliber Pensa Prize, the Liberisliber Lira Prize and the Liberisliber Prize (Fiction). Place your bets!
This event will take place as soon as we will inform the lucky winners of the contests Enjoy your Meal and your Book, The Magic Raffle and Are you Ready, Bookstagrammers? Good luck!
Culture is institutionally dominated by a hotchpotch of top talks, insignificant exhibitions and books signed with a smile during Sant Jordi Festival, together with a fierce [...]
In recent years storytelling has become one of the fundamental focal points of communication. Political arguments and the design of narrative strategies about any decision on [...]
What’s the difference between a film coming from a new script and one adapting a book? Is it a disadvantage the fact that readers may have recreated the characters and the places in their imagination? How does a director [...]
Through a one-hour long didactic guided tour, you will discover the town of Besalú and its more emblematic corners, such as the Romanesque Bridge, the Jewish Quarter, the excavations at the [...]
The visit finishes where it started. Maximum group size: 30 people. Price without discount: €4.60. On Sunday there will be another visit, same place, same time.
Through a one-hour long didactic guided tour, you will discover the town of Besalú and its more emblematic corners, such as the Romanesque Bridge, the Jewish Quarter, the excavations at the synagogue, [...]
The visit finishes where it started. Maximum group size: 30 people. Price without discount: €4.60
Illustrator Laura Reixach invites us to visit the city of Girona through her drawings, made on the spot, in order to discover places and details often unnoticed by tourists or even by the city residents. This is the first guide [...]
In many genres and works, the story slides down the characters just like it could slide down any other person. However, when the character eats up the story, digests it, and receives its nourishment, we usually come up with the term [...]
Between 1512 and 1515, Copernicus collaborated with the mathematician Johannes Eyckermann. Among the documents found in Copernicus’s archives, there is a series of unfinished poems written by Eyckermann and entitled The [...]
The magic mountain of Montserrat gathers more than a thousand summits, but only very few of them are accessible on foot. In this book, Albert Masó presents a collection of 16 routes with the aim of reaching these 16 peaks.
Joan Rioné -the publisher- and Pep Molist -one of the authors- will come and talk to us about a book made by many hands and with three purposes: awaken the senses, celebrate children’s books and gaze at the naked word.
We’ve come to LIBERISLIBER to spread fiction situated out of the standards of power and focused on a high aesthetic plenitude: Las nimfes sota el sol [The nymphs under the sun], by Josep Maria Argemí.
Taking the book Le discours impur by Jean-Noël Vuarnet as a starting point, WE WILL WONDER: What do we understand by “impure discourse”? Why is it necessary (today, yesterday and always)? How does this type of discourse affect other fields: philosophy, literature, cinema, music, etc.? Do “impure thinkers” really exist? Are they necessary? Why? What for?
Toni Beltran, and his book Ensenya'm la lengua [Show me the tongue], to be presented in Besalú, intend to provide us with a new tool to rescue some popular and informal Catalan vocabulary which was alive, explicit and absolutely natural just a few years ago.
What is “Vermoutry”? It is celebrating new verses together with their creators and a good glass of vermouth in hand, all stitched by the poet Míriam Cano. This year, the authors presenting [...]
Rafael Ramis (Figueres, 1880-1936) was a man of values and ideals. A man who worked to serve republicanism, socialism and catalanism, always with the determination of building a better and fairer country. Despite all his efforts, carried out in his three living spaces -Figueres, Paris and Barcelona-, his figure and his work have fallen into oblivion.
Ladies and gentlemen, it is happening again. Choose your best outfit and get ready to attend the poetical fight of the century. Five pugilists-poets will get on the canvas-stage and a referee-master of ceremonies will ensure that [...]
We’ll try to identify some of the possibilities bound to be explored by the new contemporary narrative. We’ll focus on a hybrid genre, narrative nonfiction, a type of writing in between novel, essay, travel journal, memoirs, chronicles and prose poetry.
Thanks to the “Programme in support of book fairs in Catalonia”, carried out by the Library Services in collaboration with the Catalan Institute for Cultural Companies (ICEC), around 20 different libraries will come to [...]
At LIBERISLIBER fun is guaranteed for everyone, also for the youngest. Besides the coolest books for learning and setting in motion their imagination, they will also find a place to play and play and play again. The play corner we have prepared is waiting for them!.
Open both days during the fair, (11 a.m. – 2 p. m. and 4 p.m. – 6p.m.). For children over 3 years old.
In 2015, while the members of the theatre company Cap de Pardals were developing a solidary project in Thille Boubacar, the children of the village often approached them: they wanted paper to draw on. These drawings are of great [...]
Sunday, October 7th 2018, from 13.00 p.m. to 14.00 p.m. at the stand of the publisher Albertí Editor (books: Dames, reines, abadesses. 18 personalitats femenines de la Catalunya medieval)
Saturday, October 6th 2018, from 18.00 p.m. to 19.00 p.m. at the stand of the publisher Albertí Editor (books: Dames, reines, abadesses. 18 personalitats femenines de la Catalunya medieval)
Saturday, October 6th 2018, from 12.00 p.m. to 13.00 p.m. at the stand of the publisher Bellaterra (books: CAPERUCITA ROJA Y EL LOBO FEROZ. ¿Cómo era el cuento?)
Are you going on holidays and don’t know which book to read? You don’t have holidays? You only read a book a year and you hesitate? Your reading thirst is unquenchable? Dear friends, Liberisliber is back [...]
As dictated by tradition, during the period around Goddess Fortuna’s Day, we offer you the chance to win a fortunate weekend in Besalú, to be precise the days of the fair (October 6th-7th). Isn’t it AMAZING? A [...]
It is simple: just by coming to the fair any of the two days and buying a book, you will receive a magic raffle ticket. Fill it out and put it in the box at the Hola! Stand of the organization. If goddess Fortuna chooses you, you will be the lucky person receiving a wonderful literary present.
Are you a bookstagrammer? Would you like to be? It is simple. Grab your phone and take a picture or record a video of your favourite book, or the one you are reading at the moment or you find more appealing and [...]
Dear friends, if around mid-September you happen to sit down to eat at some restaurant in the area of la Garrotxa and the province of Girona, two things will happen to you. First, and very importantly, you’ll [...]
You would like to come to Liberisliber on Saturday but you don’t have a car? You would like to come to Liberisliber but you don’t have enough cash to buy a book and pay for the bus fare? You would like to come to [...]
Children under 12 may travel without purchasing the voucher if their accompanying adult chooses to do so. The bus departs from Barcelona!
On the occasion of this year’s Liberisliber, Besalú’s Museum of Miniatures and Microminiatures, Micromundi, will offer a 2-4-1 discount to visit the museum to anyone buying a book at the fair.
Come in and amaze yourself!
Mind the opening times: it closes at 6.30 pm, one hour before the fair. Please show the bookmark you’ll receive when buying a book in order to get the discount.
If you buy a book at LIBERISLIBER and then you want to feast yourself on some sublime delicatessen or any other local product, do not hesitate and visit the Rebost del Comtat in Besalú. You’ll get a 20% discount! You only need to show the ticket you’ll receive when buying a book.
Have a great day!
Opening times during the fair: 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. and 4.30 - 7 p.m.
Hurry up, ladies and gentlemen, the first 100 people buying 2 books at Liberisliber will get the Haversack, that is, the fair official tote bag filled with some delicious titbits. As the saying goes, the [...]
While supplies last (usually until Saturday noon).
Those publishers showing the sign (check the list of publishing houses taking part) will apply a 10% discount when buying any of their books. Not bad, right?
Vallmajor is a tricentennial masia located inside the Natural Interest Area of Alta Garrotxa, two kilometres away from Montagut. There, not only can you enjoy a half board stay, but also participate in a [...]