Món Llibre 2026 claims the book as a space of fiction

The literary festival Món Llibre will celebrate a new edition from May 29 to 31 at the CCCB and MACBA with a free program aimed at children, families, and industry professionals. This year's proposal focuses on the book as a physical space for fiction and explores children's ability to imagine possible worlds from everyday environments, while also advocating for the presence of children's culture in contemporary cultural spaces.

The festival's central exhibition, by the Galician design and publishing studio Fabulatorio, offers an immersive journey through six walkable spaces inspired by classics of children's literature. Conceived as a participatory experience, the exhibition invites visitors to interact with different environments using materials, symbolic objects, and a specific color palette that evokes some of the most representative imaginary worlds of children's literature from the last century.

Space, as Georges Perec wrote, is a doubt. It must be conquered and signified with each appropriation, with each practice, and in childhood it becomes crucial because it is when we give meaning to the world. Physical space during the first years of life is changing and tends to lose its usual contours thanks to the intense exercise of imagination. Children have the capacity to superimpose realities and transform places with imaginary practice, and Món Llibre wants to bring this universe of imagination closer through children's works.

This year's edition explores the child's capacity to imagine, situating the book and the page as a physical space for fiction. The proposal draws possible worlds on top of everyday places, where children can explore these imaginary territories.

Programming for children

The program includes a wide range of activities, all free, linked to children's and youth literature, with the participation of Pere Ginard, Joan Negrescolor, Marina Sáez, Olivier Douzou, Nina Izycka and Anna Font, among other illustrators, visual artists, authors and disseminators.

The program combines workshops and proposals for illustration, printing, photographic intervention, literary creation, reading aloud, visual thinking, collage, construction games and character creation, among other participatory formats.

Space for adolescents

The festival also keeps adolescents in sight and returns with Tarda Jove, scheduled for Friday, May 29. The specific space for adolescents is curated by Freddy Gonçalves, who explores the appropriations of cultural spaces by young people through activities and conversations with the participation of Blackie Books and Alba G. Mora.

Proposals for 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 starting in the field of children's publishing. On the other hand, the Professional Conference, which will take place on Saturday, May 30, and will bring together editors, mediators, teachers, and professionals in the cultural and educational field, as well as library staff, with the participation of international figures such as Olivier Douzou and Bernardo P. Carvalho.