The festival 2019

To present The Creator, by Salomo Friedlaender, we will offer a reading staged by actress Montserrat Romero and soprano Ilona Schneider, who will go through the text on a journey supported by a score by Colombian composer Jorge [...]

• Saturday, October 5th 2019, at 6 p.m.

Accompanied by the musical ensemble Arannà, and Eugenia Broggi, the book’s publisher, Toni Sala is coming to Besalú to present and read from one of the most commented books of the season.

* “All Ears” are the narrative [...]

• Sunday, October 6th 2019, at 12 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 6th 2019, at 7 p.m.

Jansky, the Catalan-Majorcan duet formed by Laia Malo and Jaume Reus, has always defended with facts, i.e. song after song, how the connexion between music and poetry allows for a boundless experimentation.

Based on Laia’s recent translation of Patti Smith’s poems, they will perform a show where these two realities become, more than ever, just one.

• Sunday, October 6th 2019, at 6 p.m.

Presented by: Eva Vázquez

Anna Maria Iglesia and M. Àngels Cabré have recently published two books very linked to the feminist revolution, a phenomenon evidently developed throughout history but nowadays still in need of being rescued for the collective memory.

• Saturday, October 5th 2019, at 12 p.m.

Coordinated by: Xavier Bassas

Far from the image of philosophers in an ivory tower, all the illustrated thinking was based on questioning, on controversy, on the caustic word aimed against prejudice, mainly [...]

• Saturday, October 5th 2019, at 4 p.m.

Presented by: Veronika Paulics

The representation of pain and every woman’s struggles to overcome it are the core of these two very different books, even though they share words as a tool to express themselves.

• Sunday, October 6th 2019, at 4 p.m.

Presented by: Annna Guitart

In recent years we have witnessed quite a remarkable phenomenon: a boom of books written in the first-person singular. Led by journalist Anna Guitart, we will get together with a group of authors who have used the “I” or have studied it in depth: Andrea Valdés, Adrià Pujol Cruells, Llucia Ramis and Eva Baltasar.

• Sunday, October 6th 2019, at 5 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 5th 2019, 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 6th 2019, at 1 p.m.
• The visit finishes where it started. Maximum group size: 30 people. Price without discount: €4.60

1 fill inesperat i 1 sofà [An unexpected son and a sofa] is a story written in the first person by Gemma Vilanova, Josep’s mum, which allows us to step into her shoes and to understand how, with the passing of the [...]

• Saturday, October 5th 2019, at 12 p.m.
• Seating available for the audience

In 1966, the book Turistes, sirenes i gent del país ["Tourists, mermaids and countryfolk"], by Manuel Costa-Pau, was published. At that time, it caused quite a stir, since it was the first essay on mass tourism, an [...]

• Saturday, October 5th 2019, at 12 p.m.

This year’s winner of “The Empordà award” is a novel written by Blai Manté. Fresh and thrilling, sometimes funny and often politically incorrect, it is the story of a caregiver and his work with people with [...]

• Saturday, October 5th 2019, at 1 p.m.

After winning the Liberisliber Prize in 2013 with Viatge a l'illa dels pingüins [A trip to the island of penguins] (Voliana), Bernat Gasull comes back to Besalú with his last novel, Hotel de l'Univers, published by the same publisher [...]

• Sunday, October 6th 2019, at 11 a.m.
• Seating available for the audience

Presented by: Mar Carrera

For years, Mohamad Bitari has been collecting texts by six Sirian poets, with the intention of publishing them: Raed Wahesh, Rasha Omran, Talal Bu Khadar, Abdul·lah Al-Hariri, Nisrín Akram [...]

• Saturday, October 5th 2019, at 1 p.m.

L’Avenç publishing house has collected all the memoirs by Joan-Daniel Bezsonoff in one volume, which he will present in Besalú with a stupendous accompanist and writer, Vicenç Pagès Jordà.

• Saturday, October 5th 2019, at 5 p.m.

Presented by: Míriam Cano

This year’s vermoutry is not in verse, but it comes as a great celebration of a happy coincidence: two different publishers -Godall and Wunderkammer- have translated into Catalan and Spanish several texts by the great Russian author Vladimir Nabokov.

• Sunday, October 6th 2019, at 1 p.m.
• Vermouth will be served among the audience.

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 5th 2019, at 6 p.m.

Teresa Aranguren and Sandra Barrilaro will present and project the book they have written about the photographic memory of a place, Palestine, and a people, the Palestinian. Those pictures are the traces of an existence some wanted to erase. Their publication, therefore, is not an exercise of nostalgia but of assertion.

• Saturday, October 5th 2019, at 6 p.m.

Jorge Sierra is a young man who dared to go around the globe on board a ’78 Citroën 2CV. He will tell us about it in detail.

• Sunday, October 6th 2019, at 12 p.m.

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

• Sunday, October 6th 2019, at 11 a.m.

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

• Sunday, October 6th 2019, at 12 p.m.

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 5th 2019, 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 5th 2019, at 12 p.m.

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

• Saturday, October 5th 2019, at 4 p.m.

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

• Sunday, October 6th 2019, at 11 a.m.

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

• Sunday, October 6th 2019, at 4 p.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 of [...]

• Thursday, October 3rd 2019, at 10 a.m.

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 5th 2019, 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 5th 2019, 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 5th 2019, at 9 p.m.
• Prior booking is required.

Presented by: Carme Fenoll

Big publishing groups keep on concentrating -either by means of purchases, takeover bids or mergers- and gathering a huge capacity to influence, due to both [...]

• Sunday, October 6th 2019, at 12 p.m.

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.

Winner 2019: Marta Manera

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  The winner will be announced at V for Victory.

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.

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 6th by noon! The winner will be announced at V for Victory.

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 5th 2019, 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!

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 5th 2019, at 11 a.m.
• Offer only valid during the two days of the fair.

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 5th 2019, at 11 a.m.
• Offer only valid during the two days of the fair.

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 in Hola! Stand (Plaça del Claustre) when buying a book. Have a great day!

• Saturday, October 5th 2019, 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 5th 2019, at 11 a.m.
• While supplies last (usually until Saturday noon).