Thursday, September 24

12:00 Opening
Official opening of the Bookfest Târgu Mureș 2026 Book Fair

13:00 EIKON PUBLISHING HOUSE
Publishing Marathon – New releases from Eikon Publishing House
Presented by Valentin Ajder, Director of the publishing house

15:00 EIKON PUBLISHING HOUSE
Book launch: Trilogia unui destin / Păianjenul negru [Trilogy of a Destiny / The Black Spider] by Eugenia Cimborovici-Teodoreanu
Guest: Eugenia Cimborovici-Teodoreanu
Moderator: Valentin Ajder

16:00 EIKON PUBLISHING HOUSE
Book launch: Sfârșitul istoriei [The End of History] by Vlad Mureșan
Guest: Vlad Mureșan
Moderator: Valentin Ajder

18:15 Piano concert by Tóni Szilàgyi, former member of the traditional music band Parno Graszt

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25

17:30 LEBĂDA NEAGRĂ PUBLISHING HOUSE

Book presentation: Anatomia lui Liverpool [The Anatomy of Liverpool] by Jonathan Wilson and Scott Murray, translated by Radu Paraschivescu

Participants: Radu Paraschivescu, writer and translator, Adrian Christescu, editor and writer

18:30 HUMANITAS PUBLISHING HOUSE

Cristian Preda Event
Launch of the volume Ideologies and Ideologues in Contemporary Romania
Speakers: Cristian Preda, Radu Paraschivescu
Book signing session

19:00 MAX BLECHER PUBLISHING HOUSE
Launch of the volumes bozgor bebop by Robert Gabriel Elekes and În vortex (In the Vortex) by Claudiu Komartin
With the participation of Al. Cistelecan and the authors

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 26

11:30 TREI PUBLISHING HOUSE
Launch of the novel Dansează când îți vine să plângi (Dance When You Feel Like Crying) by Camelia Cavadia
Camelia Cavadia in conversation with Anca Sfâriac, psychologist and teacher

12:30 HUMANITAS PUBLISHING HOUSE
Nadia Comăneci Event
Featuring the volumes Letters to a Young Gymnast by Nadia Comăneci and For the Sake of Nadia Comăneci by Cho Nam-joo
Speakers: Radu Paraschivescu, Cristian Preda

13:00 POLIROM PUBLISHING HOUSE
Armand Goșu in conversation with Ioan Chiorean, discussing the volume The Endless War. How the invasion of Ukraine changed the rules of the game

14:00 HUMANITAS PUBLISHING HOUSE
Radu Paraschivescu Event
Launch of the book The New Guide for the Shameless (Twenty Years Later)
Speakers: Radu Paraschivescu, Cristian Preda
Book signing session

14:45 Autobiographies – Humanitas Fiction and Humanitas
Ludmila Ulitskaya, My Real Name: Stories from My Biography
Arundhati Roy, My Refuge, My Storm
Melissa Panarello, The Story of My Money
Elizabeth Gilbert, Until the Great River Parts Us
Speakers: Dan-Liviu Boeriu, Radu Paraschivescu, Cristian Preda

15:15 HUMANITAS PUBLISHING HOUSE
Cătălin Vasilescu Event
Launch of the book Placebo: Surgeons in Search of Immortality
Speakers: Cătălin Vasilescu, Leonard Azamfirei, Radu Paraschivescu

16:00 HUMANITAS PUBLISHING HOUSE
Dan-Liviu Boeriu Event
Launch of the book The Aquarium and a Few Other Pieces of Additional Evidence
Speakers: Dan-Liviu Boeriu, Radu Paraschivescu
Book signing session

16:30 HUMANITAS PUBLISHING HOUSE
Launch of the bestseller History of the Blind. Romania at War, 1940–1945, by Alina Pavelescu and Șerban-Liviu Pavelescu
Speakers: Alina Pavelescu, Șerban-Liviu Pavelescu, Cristian Preda, Cornel Sigmirean
Book signing session