 Over 30,000 volumes with substantial discounts, the most beautiful children's books and the interesting releases of the season can be found at Bookfest Brașov, between October 16 and 19, at the Transilvania University Auditorium (Iuliu Maniu Street, no. 41A).
 Not to be missed are the meetings with some of the most appreciated authors of the moment: Doina Ruști, Sabina Fati, Georgiana Țăranu, Radu Paraschivescu, Cristian Preda, Ileana Căzan, Adrian Lesenciuc, Laurențiu-Ciprian Tudor or Mihail Vakulovski.
 Bookfest Brașov 2025 takes place in the "Sergiu Chiriacescu" Auditorium of Transilvania University, from Thursday to Sunday, between 10 am and 8 pm.
 Public entry is free both within the Book Fair and at the events scheduled during it.

There is only one week left until literature lovers are invited to the "Sergiu Chiriacescu" Hall of the Transilvania University of Brașov (Iuliu Maniu Street, 41A), to the 9th edition of the Bookfest Brașov Book Fair, which starts on October 16. Participating publishers have prepared offers and discounts, as well as launches of the latest volumes, debates and autograph sessions with Doina Ruști, Sabina Fati, Georgiana Țăranu, Radu Paraschivescu, Cristian Preda, Ileana Căzan, Adrian Lesenciuc, Laurenţiu-Ciprian Tudor or Mihail Vakulovski. The little ones are also expected to meet their favorite authors: Diana Miron, Adriana Ștefan and Ana Groszler at the launches of the latest children's books.
At Bookfest Brașov, you will be able to visit the stands of some of the most important publishing houses in Romania: Romanian Academy Publishing House, ARI, Art Editorial Group, Association of the League of Albanians in Romania, Bookzone, Corint Editorial Group, Didactica Publishing House, Humanitas and Humanitas Fiction publishing houses, Gama publishing house, Litera Editorial Group, Nemira Publishing House, Noua Acropolă, Niculescu - Oxford University Press, Polirom, Pilot Books, Romania de Mâine Foundation Publishing House, Trei.

Double editorial event Doina Ruști
Friday, October 17, from 1 p.m., Humanitas and Youngart publishing houses await those who love the work of author Doina Ruști at a double event – ​​the presentation of the novels Ferenike and Platanos. In Ferenike, published by Humanitas Publishing House, "a cinematic, formidable prose, with mythological resonances, in which the scenes unfold before our eyes" (Roxana Dumitrache), the characters, with names ranging from picturesque to strange, are a gallery of paintings painted face-to-face, reality and fiction. Platanos, published by Youngart Publishing House of the Art Editorial Group, calls us to a dystopian world, in which fantasy and mystery intertwine. In a world in which all humans and animals seem destined to change their kingdom and become vegetables, Sisinel knows that he has no choice and must adapt. That is precisely why he now lives in an experimental center, alongside others like him, where he tries to learn the ways of the new world, where news from outside penetrates more difficultly and where life slowly takes on a different rhythm. Doina Ruști and Virgil Borcan will speak at the launch, and it will be followed by an autograph session.

Children's Literary Celebration at Bookfest Brașov
On Saturday, October 18, starting at 11 am, Humanitas Junior Publishing House is waiting for the youngest readers to be part of some of the most spectacular adventures contained in the books. Bit & R. Explorers through the Multiverse is the latest novel by Diana Miron, illustrated by Renata Macoveanu. “In this fascinating novel, technology and physics meet fantasy, and the theory of multiverses takes on a human face through the eyes of an 11-year-old child, passionate about programming. Bit is the witness of a parallel reality, born from an almost impossible calculation and a bold dream,” says physicist Cristian Presură about this volume. A web programmer herself, Diana Miron was included in the Forbes "30 under 30 Europe" list in the "Technology" category in 2019. This will be followed by the launch of the newest novel by authors Adriana Ștefan and Ana Groszler, illustrated by Ionela Marinovschi, The Adventures of the Dragon Maurice. This purple, gourmet dragon shoots flames out of its nose like all dragons, but what makes it special is that it can travel from the world of stories to the world of people. His adventures are at the same time funny, touching little life lessons, sprinkled with a touch of magic. Next, Humanitas Junior Publishing House offers us two novels full of adventures and surprises, presented by Radu Paraschivescu and Gabriela Maaz: The Cat and the Devil by James Joyce, translated by Radu Paraschivescu, is an old French story retold with humor by James Joyce, author of the masterpiece Ulysses, in a superbly illustrated edition by Lelis. A classic novel that has delighted entire generations of readers of all ages, The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling, illustrated by Valentin Tănase and translated by Tatiana Niculescu, remains the same timeless story about friendship, family and the importance of respecting nature, more than 130 years after its publication. The graphic novel Oscar and Auntie Roz is a delightful adaptation of the well-known novel by Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt. It brings us the same tender, moving, timeless story, which reveals the beauty of humanity in each of us. Vincent Zabus signs the adaptation and dialogues, the drawings belong to Valérie Vernay, and the translation is done by Elena Ciocoiu.

The Time of the Predators, the cold mirror of current politics
Sabina Fati, Radu Paraschivescu and Cristian Preda invite you, from 12:30, to discover three of the most spectacular editorial appearances recently published on "Raftul Denisei" from the Humanitas Fiction publishing house. First, the volumes written by Giuliano da Empoli, The Magician of the Kremlin and The Time of the Predators will be presented; awarded in 2022 with the Grand Prize for the Novel of the French Academy and the Honoré de Balzac Prize, The Magician of the Kremlin is a documentary novel, with prophetic accents, about contemporary Russia. The Time of the Predators, the latest novel by Giuliano da Empoli, is also a political novel, a “disturbing portrait of the new world of chaos” that L’Opinion does not recommend to the faint of heart. Then, the public’s attention will be directed to George Saunders’s book, Liberation Day - nine incisive and disturbing stories, forming an unexpected universe, which penetrate the deep folds of the subconscious and reveal monsters, but also victims.

How Russia wants to destroy the European Union
For 1 p.m., Humanitas Publishing House has prepared a special meeting for the public with the writer Radu Paraschivescu and the latest editorial appearances that he signs. To begin with, the author will talk to us about his latest novel, Bracelet on Your Ankle, a story that is more felt than read, about mature love. Later, Radu Paraschivescu will also present his latest anthology of pearls, În virtutea ineptiei - not just a catalog of nonsense and aberrations, but also proof of the increasingly low level of public discourse. The author will be present at the launch together with Cristian Preda, and at the end of the event you will have the opportunity to get his autograph.
The series of launches continues with Sabina Fati's latest volume, Cine râvnește la Gurile Dunării? A wartime journey in the extended Delta: Transnistria, Ukraine, Bessarabia, Romania. The volume published in the collection "Memoirs. Journals" by Humanitas Publishing House explains why and how Russia wants to destroy the European Union. The author will be accompanied by Cristian Preda, and the launch will end with an autograph session

Cristian Preda makes the ideological panorama of Romania
Humanitas Publishing House invites history and political science enthusiasts to explore Cristian Preda's latest book published in the collection "History" - Ideologies and ideologues in contemporary Romania, an encyclopedia with an entire typology of characters: "the sycophant and the nationalist with a hammer and sickle at his belt, the villain and the unconscious, the traitor and the coward, the amnesiac of the conjuncture and the buffoon, the unscrupulous scoundrel and the fool as night, the plagiarist with eloquence and the unrepentant neo-Stalinist, (...) in which the author offers a spectacle of information excellently put on the page", as Radu Paraschivescu says. Starting at 2 p.m., Cristian Preda, Georgiana Țăranu and Raimar Wagner, director of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation, will be in dialogue, and the launch will be followed by an autograph session.
From 2:30 p.m., Humanitas Fiction publishing house awaits us again with newly published volumes in the "Denis's Shelf" collection: We Can't Part with Han Kang, The Body of the Soul by Ludmila Ulitskaya and Journey to the Rainbow by Yasunari Kawabata. Han Kang is today considered the most important contemporary Korean author, with translations in over fifty countries, the series of awards she has received culminating in the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2024. The eleven stories in The Body of the Soul speak to us about the poetry of existence, even in the imminence of death, accompanied by the often black humor that is an attractive feature of Ludmila Ulitskaya's style.

Yasunari Kawabata's novel, Journey to the Rainbow, is being translated into Romanian for the first time, Kawabata being the first Japanese writer to receive the Nobel Prize, in 1968, for his "literary mastery, which expresses with great sensitivity the essence of the Japanese spirit". The novel, set in Japan recently defeated in World War II, is one of the first published by Yasunari Kawabata and follows a complex family, still unhealed from the wounds of the past, over the course of a year. Sabina Fati and Laurențiu-Ciprian Tudor will talk about the three editorial appearances.

Nicolae Iorga and the fascination for Italian fascism
Starting at 3 p.m., Humanitas Publishing House proposes the launch of the volume Nicolae Iorga and the seduction of Italian fascism by Georgiana Țăranu, a book that deconstructs the myth that still surrounds the historian Nicolae Iorga. Georgiana Țăranu, Ileana Căzan and Crisrian Preda will speak at the launch, and the event will be followed by an autograph session.
From 3:30 PM, we turn our attention to the "Raftul Denisei" collection of Humanitas publishing house, when Cristian Preda, Adrian Lesenciuc, Mihail Vakulovski and Gabriela Maaz present the novels Teatrul de la malul mării by Joanna Quinn, Să furi noapea by Romana Petri, Fiicele pictorului by Emily Howes and O vară daor pentru noi by Ann Patchett.
The novel Teatrul de la malul mării takes place in interwar England where a little girl finds a whale stranded on the coast, from whose skeleton she will build a theater. Thus begins the great adventure of Cristabel Seagrave, who builds a universe of stories and spectacle, far from the memory of the war.
Romana Petri has written a novel that reconstructs the turbulent path of the author of The Little Prince, from his first flights over the Sahara to his mysterious disappearance during World War II. To Steal at Night was among the finalists for the prestigious Strega Prize in 2023.
Published in 2024, The Painter's Daughters, the debut novel by writer Emily Howes, was selected by the New York Times Book Review among the three best historical novels of 2024.
A Summer Just for Us by Ann Patchett is the winner of the Southern Book Prize for Fiction in 2024.

Dumitru Crudu, premiering at Bookfest Brașov
Continuing the Bookfest Brașov program, Cartier Publishing House invites readers, at 4 p.m., to discover Dumitru Crudu's latest editorial appearance, You and Other Women. "Oxana, Iulia, Nina, Livia. Tanța, Sveta, Gagarin, Artur, Serhii are just some of Dumitru Crudu's heroes, just as Flutura, Chișinău, Tbilisi, Stepanakert, Brașov, Balchik, Odessa are just some of the cities where the numerous stories of this atypical, alluvial novel unfold, with dramatic scenes, with acutely poetic observations, with a permanent questioning of the captive in a space torn by conflicts, with pages that remain in the reader's mind long after closing the book", said Ioana Nicolae about the latest novel signed by Dumitru Crudu. In addition to the author, professor Adrian Lăcătuș, dean of the Faculty of Letters, and writer Mihail Vakulovski will speak at the launch.
Next, from 4:45 p.m., visitors are expected at Boris Cremene's editorial debut, Fantoma Blondă. Lived Journals, a volume of memoirs. “He stayed in Brazil, Ireland, China, the United States of America, Norway, France, England, Spain, Portugal and each time he took something with him from these worlds. (...) Beyond any description, Boris Cremene is an actor born, not made. A storyteller who exposes his own life stories, moving the stage into a book”, is the description of the cultural journalist Cătălin Ștefănescu. Currently, Boris Cremene works as a counselor for culture, education, social and mass media at the Embassy of the Republic of Moldova in Bucharest. Boris Cremene, Dumitru Crudu and Mela Mihai will speak at the launch, and the author will offer autographs.

At the end of the launch program, from 17:30, the ARI publishing house invites poetry lovers to the conference and launch of the volume Chemarea Adâncurilor - Ecouri din Umbre și Lumină. The dialogue will be held between the author of the volume, Teodora Dumitru, and Daniel Meze, the director of the ARI publishing house. Teodora Dumitru is an integrative psychotherapist and creator of conscious movement and dance workshops. “I entered the world of psychology and spirituality at a young age and I believe that there are two sides of the same coin: one more rational and the other more emotional-energetic.” are the words with which the author describes herself.

As with all Bookfest events, public entry will be free at the Bookfest Brașov 2025 Salon, which will be open from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.

The event program will be available soon on www.bookfest.ro

The Bookfest Book Salon is organized by the Romanian Publishers Association, under the aegis of the Romanian Publishers Federation.

Media partners: Transilvania Expres, mytex.ro, Bună Ziua Brașov, Biz Brașov, News BV

Bookfest is the most important book fair in Romania and the only event of the publishing industry that has managed to acquire a significant international dimension. The 2025 Bookfest International Book Fair (Bucharest, May 28 - June 1, 2025) featured over 170 exhibitors, with the five-day program including over 400 events, from launches and debates to film screenings and interactive events. The Guest of Honor for the 2025 edition was Portugal. In previous international editions, the invited countries were: Spain, Hungary, France, German-speaking countries (Germany, Austria, Switzerland), Poland, Czech Republic, Israel, Sweden, the United States of America, the United Kingdom, Japan, Italy, the Republic of Moldova and Portugal.
The Bookfest Book Fair has local editions in Bucharest, Timișoara, Cluj-Napoca, Târgu Mureș and another international edition in Chișinău.

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