The festival 2018

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 [...]

• Saturday, October 6th 2018, at 5 p.m.

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!

• Sunday, October 7th 2018, at 7 p.m.

One of the greatest, the magician of the language of music and words.

• Sunday, October 7th 2018, at 7 p.m.

Coordinated by: Xavier Bassas

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 [...]

• Saturday, October 6th 2018, at 4 p.m.

Coordinated by Joan Julibert

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 [...]

• Sunday, October 7th 2018, at 12 p.m.

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 [...]

• Sunday, October 7th 2018, at 6 p.m.

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 [...]

• Saturday, October 6th 2018, at 1 p.m.
• 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, [...]

• Sunday, October 7th 2018, at 1 p.m.
• 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 [...]

• Saturday, October 6th 2018, at 4 p.m.
• Seating available for the audience

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 [...]

• Saturday, October 6th 2018, at 5 p.m.
• Seating available for the audience

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 [...]

• Sunday, October 7th 2018, at 11 a.m.
• Seating available for the audience

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.

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• Sunday, October 7th 2018, at 12 p.m.
• Seating available for the audience

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.

• Sunday, October 7th 2018, at 12 p.m.

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.

Yours sincerely,

• Saturday, October 6th 2018, at 12 p.m.

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?

• Saturday, October 6th 2018, at 5 p.m.

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.

• Sunday, October 7th 2018, at 11 a.m.

Presented by: Míriam Cano

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 [...]

• Sunday, October 7th 2018, at 1 p.m.
• Vermouth Miró Will be served among the audience.

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.

• Sunday, October 7th 2018, at 4 p.m.

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 [...]

• Saturday, October 6th 2018, at 7 p.m.

Poet and songwriter Ivette Nadal will present her book of poems Arbres, mars, desconcerts (Llibres del Segle).

• Sunday, October 7th 2018, at 5 p.m.

Text/Information only available in Catalan and Spanish at the moment.

• Sunday, October 7th 2018, at 12 p.m.
• In catalan.

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.

• Sunday, October 7th 2018, at 11 a.m.
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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!.

• Saturday, October 6th 2018, from 11 a.m. to 18.00
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  Open both days during the fair, (11 a.m. – 2 p. m. and 4 p.m. – 6p.m.). For children over 3 years old.

Text/Information only available in Catalan and Spanish at the moment.

• Saturday, October 6th 2018, at 12 p.m.
• For children over 2 years old.

Text/Information only available in Catalan and Spanish at the moment.

• Saturday, October 6th 2018, at 4 p.m.
• For children over 4 years old. In catalan.

Text/Information only available in Catalan and Spanish at the moment.

• Sunday, October 7th 2018, at 12 p.m.
• In catalan.

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, at 4 p.m.

Text/Information only available in Catalan and Spanish at the moment.

• Wednesday, March 21st 2018, at 11 a.m.

Since 2015, GREPAI (Research Group on Education, Heritage and Intermedia Arts) and the Independent Publishers Book Fair Liberisliber organize an annual symposium discussing different aspects [...]

• Wednesday, October 3rd 2018, at 4 p.m.
• There will be a 10’ break at 5.20 p.m., followed by Lluís Sabadell Artiga’s workshop.

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 [...]

• Saturday, October 6th 2018, at 11 a.m.

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 [...]

• Saturday, October 6th 2018, at 6 p.m.

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!

• Saturday, October 6th 2018, at 9 p.m.
• Prior booking is required.

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 [...]

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  You can participate every week (until we run out of books). Subscribe to our newsletter to receive the notifications or follow our Facebook Page (events).

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 [...]

• Contest open until September 25th.

Text/Information only available in Catalan and Spanish at the moment.

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  Durant la segona quinzena de setembre.

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.

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  The winner will be announced at V for Victory.

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 [...]

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  You can participate until October 7th by noon! The winner will be announced at V for Victory.

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 [...]

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  The winner will be announced at V for Victory. Contest open until October 7th (12.00 m.).

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 [...]

• Saturday, October 6th 2018, at 9 a.m.
• Children under 12 may travel without purchasing the voucher if their accompanying adult chooses to do so. The bus departs from Barcelona!

If you buy a book, you will get a 2-4-1 discount voucher to enjoy the guided tours (not to be combined with any other offer).

Through a one-hour long didactic guided tour, you will [...]

• Saturday, October 6th 2018, at 11 a.m.
• Offer only valid during the two days of the fair.

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!

• Saturday, October 6th 2018, at 11 a.m.
• 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!

• Saturday, October 6th 2018, at 11 a.m.
• 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 [...]

• Saturday, October 6th 2018, at 11 a.m.
• 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?

Great books at unbeatable prices!

• Saturday, October 6th 2018, at 11 a.m.
• Offer only valid during the two days of the fair.

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 [...]

• Saturday, October 6th 2018, at 11 a.m.
• Offer only valid until May 31st 2019.