BOOK FAIR. The Grand Palais Ephémère is hosting the Paris Book Festival this Friday, April 21, 2023, which replaces the former Salon du Livre. Guest authors, talks… Here’s the schedule!
[Updated April 18, 2023 at 1:10 p.m.] The Paris Book Festival takes place from Friday April 21 to Sunday April 23, 2023 in the heart of the ephemeral Grand Palais in the seventh arrondissement of Paris, where more than 3,000 authors from different universe, including Daniel Pennac, Laurent Gaudé, Victor Castanet, Catherine Meurisse who will promote his latest comic book Human, Too Human), or even Atsushi Kaneko, author of manga (Bambi, Soil, Mushi, Search
Italian letters will be in the spotlight, with the presence of around fifty Italian authors, including the novelists Alessandro Baricco, Erri de Luca, Milena Angus or Maurizio Serra, but also the Italian author of erotic comics Milo Manara, who will be present on April 23 at 9 p.m., but at the Maison de la Poésie in the 3rd arrondissement, for an interview on his adaptation-event of Umberto Eco’s novel Au nom de la rose.
Visitors will be able to meet writers through a program of events, dedications and conferences, and attend the awarding of literary prizes. Here are some program highlights:
Friday, April 21, 2023:
For its 41st edition, the Book Fair, renamed Festival du Livre Paris 2023, will take place from Friday April 21 to Sunday April 23, 2023.
The Festival du Livre Paris is being held for the first time at the Grand Palais Éphémère, a temporary 10,000 m² building located at 2, Place Joffre in the 7th arrondissement of Paris.
But the Festival also invests in other places for programming outside the walls: the Museum of Arts and Crafts, the College of Bernardins, the Climate Academy, the Jacqueline de Romilly and Amélie libraries, the Françoise Sagan and Marguerite Yourcenar media libraries, the Théâtre de la Ville-Espace Pierre Cardin, La Sorbonne, the Maison de la Poésie, the Café de la Mairie and the Jardin des Tuileries.
