The CCCB, the MACBA and the Biblioteca Can Fabra will host a new edition of the literary festival Món Llibre. The event returns to Barcelona from May 29 to 31 with a proposal focused on the book as a space for fiction.
This year's event focuses on the book as a physical space for fiction and explores children's ability to imagine possible worlds from everyday environments, while also asserting the presence of children's culture in contemporary culture spaces. It does so with a free program for children, families, and professionals, with names like Pere Ginard, Joan Negrescolor, Marina Sáez, Olivier Douzou, Nina Izycka or Anna Font.
In addition, it also programs an immersive exhibition with six spaces created by the Galician studio Fabulatorio. The exhibition proposes an immersive journey inspired by classics of children's literature and will include specific activities for adolescents and sector professionals. Conceived as a participatory experience, it invites visitors to interact with different environments using materials, symbolic objects, and a specific chromatic palette that evokes some of the most representative imaginaries of children's literature of the last century.
A wide range of activities
The program includes a wide range of activities, all free, linked to children's and young adult literature, with the participation of Pere Ginard, Joan Negrescolor, Marina Sáez, Olivier Douzou, Nina Izycka or Anna Font, among other illustrators, visual artists, authors and disseminators. The program combines workshops and proposals for illustration, stamping, photographic intervention, literary creation, loud reading, visual thinking, collage, construction games and character creation, among other participatory formats.
On Friday, May 29, the Tarda Jove will also take place, a specific space for adolescents curated by Freddy Gonçalves, which explores the appropriations of cultural spaces by young people through activities and conversations with the participation of Blackie Books and Alba G. Mora.
Proposals also aimed at professionals
Món Llibre 2026 also includes two proposals aimed at professionals in the sector. On the one hand, the Illustrated Morning, organized in collaboration with illustration and design schools in the city and aimed at students who are starting in the field of children's publishing. On the other hand, the professional day, which will take place on Saturday, May 30, and will bring together publishers, mediators, teachers, and professionals from the cultural and educational fields, as well as library staff, with the participation of international figures such as Olivier Douzou and Bernardo P. Carvalho.
