Bookfest Timișoara 2026 event schedule, 13th edition, March 19 – 22, 2026
Thursday, March 19
12.00 Official opening of the Bookfest Book Fair, 13th edition.
(Bookfest Stage)
13.00 Brumar Publishing House - Book launch: In the footsteps of the Revolution, attended by students from the "Carmen Sylva" National Pedagogical College - Timișoara. Guests: Aneta Gabor and Sorin Codaț. Moderator: Loredana Tîrzioru
(Bookfest Stage)
13.30 Mega Publishing House - Book launch: National Museum of Banat Magazine - Annals of Banat-Archaeology ▪ History. No. XXXIII. Speakers: Nicoleta Toma Demian (editor-in-chief) and Kopecznyi Zsuzsana (editorial secretary); Homo Transnistreanus. The post-Soviet identity of an unrecognized "nation", Serghei Pricopiuc
(Bookfest Stage)
13:30 Romanian Academy Publishing House - Book launch:
A star encounter: Dimitrie Gerota – Constantin Brâncuși. The history of Ecorșeului/ A Match Made in Heaven: Dimitrie Gerota – Constantin Brâncuși. The story of the Flayed Man (Écorché), Irinel Popescu (coord.)
The "Library of Criticism, History and Literary Theory" Collection:
Baudelaire, Metamorphoses and Anamorphoses, Simona Modreanu
Rereading Exercises, Adrian Dinu Rachieru
Presented by: acad. Valeriu Matei– general director of the Romanian Academy Publishing House, prof. univ. dr. Simona Modreanu, prof. univ. dr. Adrian Dinu Rachieru, Pompiliu Crăciunescu – editor-in-chief of the Romanian Academy Publishing House
(Bookfest Café)
14.30 Publishing House of the West University of Timișoara - Book launch: The Twist, author: Rudolf Kocsis, texts: Rudolf Kocsis, George Lecca
(Bookfest Stage)
15.00 Publishing House of the West University of Timișoara - Book launch: E. Lovinescu – Literature, Civilization, Language, author Alexandru Ruja
(Bookfest Stage)
15.30 Publishing House of the West University of Timișoara - Book launch: H. G. Wells Timișoara. Prose 2026 - Three Extra Photons, coord. Laurențiu Nistorescu and Daniel Haiduc
(Bookfest Stage)
16.00 Junimea Publishing House - Editorial signals (book-event) • Dorin MURARIU, 40 +, collection "Fiction and Infantry" • Liliana ARDELEAN, The Conclave of Ghosts or the Adventures of Mafalda de Hauteville,
collection "The Horizon of Reading" • Veronica BALAJ, Between Waters and Heaven, collection "The Other Words" • Viorica BĂLTEANU, Prayer with Fungi, collection "Migrating Words" • SCRIPTOR Magazine, issue 3-4 (March-April)/2026 Presentations by Adrian Dinu RACHIERU Host: Simona MODREANU
(Scene Bookfest)
17.00 Brumar Publishing House- Book launch: 7 stories about the end of the world and Mechanical poetry, author: Florian Mihalcea. Guests: Viorel Marineasa and Marcel Tolcea
(Scena Bookfest)
17.00 Datagroup Publishing House- Book launch: Străinul din interior (2nd edition, revised), by Victor Neumann, in the presence of the author
(Cafeneaua Bookfest)
17.30 Lebăda Neagră Publishing House- Book launch: Chipurile întriciului, author Patricia Lidia. Guests: Patricia Lidia, author, and writers Adrian Petru Stepan and Adrian Christescu
(Bookfest Stage)
18.30 Photo exhibition opening
(Bookfest Stage)
Friday, March 20
11.30 Romanian Academy Publishing House - The "Works" Collection: Nicolae Labiș, Works, I-IV; Titu Maiorescu, The Philosophical Work, I-II; The "Philosophy Library" Collection: The Myth of the Useful, D. D. Roșca. Presented by: acad. Valeriu Matei – general director of the Romanian Academy Publishing House, prof. dr. Adrian Dinu Rachieru, Pompiliu Crăciunescu – editor-in-chief of the Romanian Academy Publishing House
(Scena Bookfest)
12.30 Casa Publishing House - Book launch: the series School in the Impeded Street, the volumes Hello, Your Majesty and Let's See the Miracle written by Erzsi Kertész and translated into Romanian by Ildikó Gábos-Foarță. Moderators: Crăciun-Bökös Emese (editor) and Ildikó Gábos-Foarță (translator)
(Bookfest Stage)
13.30 Humanitas Junior Event - Book launch: The Land of the Sun on the Back. Spring. A Small Guide to Japanese Culture, Dorothea Ko
With: Mircea Dragu, Florentina Ivănescu and Gabriela Maaz
(Bookfest Stage)
14.00 Brumar Publishing House - Book launch: Entia anthropology and philosophy series, author: Mircea Lăzărescu
Guests: Smaranda Vultur and Marcel Tolcea
(Scena Bookfest)
15.00 Junimea Publishing House - Editorial signals (literary criticism/essay/linguistics)
Editorial signals
• Ion DUR, Drafts and Days. Readings below, collection "Orizontul lecturii"
• Alexandru COLȚAN, Reality and circles, collection "Orizontul lecturii"
• Emina CĂPĂLNĂȘAN, Romanian today: findings, convictions, consolations (on the bedside table with DOOM3), collection "Universe didactical"
Presentations by Adrian Dinu RACHIERU, Florina-Maria BĂCILĂ
Host: Simona MODREANU
(Scena Bookfest)
16.00 Editura Humanitas - Conference Valentin Constantin, Why we look in the wrong direction. Autograph session
(Bookfest Stage)
16.30 Datagroup Publishing House - Book launch: Dead Smoke by Nebojša Jevrić, an event book translated by the well-known Timisoara writer Goran Mrakić, editor of the publishing house's latest collection, "Balkan Express". The launch will take place in the presence of the author and will be moderated by Goran Mrakić.
The same new collection also includes the volume Vegeta trip – Memories of a Young Yugoslav from the Golden Age, written by Aco Stanković
(Bookfest Café)
16.45 Humanitas Fiction Publishing House- Novel launch: Long Island, Colm Toibin; Abel, Alessandro Baricco; The Age of Predators, Giuliano Da Empoli. With: Dan-Liviu Boeriu, Cristian Preda and Denisa Comănescu
(Scena Bookfest)
17.00 Publishing House of the West University of Timișoara - Book launch: Antiutopia, author: Cristian Vicol
(Cafeneaua Bookfest)
17.30 Editing House Lebăda Neagră - Book launch: Anatomia lui Liverpool. A History in Ten Matches, by Jonathan Wilson and Scott Murray. Translated from English by Radu Paraschivescu. Guests: Radu Paraschivescu and Adrian Christescu
(Bookfest Stage)
17.30 Publishing House of the West University of Timișoara - Book launch: Always Different: The Lives of William Shakespeare, author: Pia Brînzeu and Dana Percec
(Bookfest Café)
18.00 Editing House Humanitas - Gabriel Liiceanu in dialogue with Cristian Preda about The Human Condition by Hannah Arendt
(Bookfest Stage)
18.30 Humanitas Publishing House - Book launch and autograph session: Ideologies and Ideologists in Contemporary Romania by Cristian Preda
With: Cristian Preda, Mircea Mihăieș
(Bookfest Stage)
18.30 Aranca Publishing House - Book launch: Marea Madăfacăreală by Borco Ilin
With the author: Radu Paraschivescu and Adriana Babeți
(Bookfest Café)
19.00 Editura Trei - Book launch and autograph session Andreea Ionescu: The invisible map of attachment. The journey towards understanding close relationships
With the author: Gabriela Bădăluță
(Scena Bookfest)
19.00 Art Encounters - Presentation of the volume Ștefan Bertalan. In the rhythm of the world, publisher: Bernard Blistène, Art Encounters, 2026. Speakers: Ileana Pintilie, Adriana Babeți, Andreea Palade Flondor, Diana Marincu, Vlad Gaivoronschi
Moderator: Oana Doboși
(Cafeneaua Bookfest)
19.30 Publishing House of the West University of Timișoara - Book launch: Encyclopaedia Bannatica, Values of Banat from its origins to the Austrian Empire, coord.: Adrian Bădescu
(Scena Bookfest)
Saturday, March 21
10.30 Datagroup Publishing - Volume launch:
Anyleea – A Captive World, Ally E.T.
Chrisalidă Trilogy, Andreea Sepi
Zgârcă, Cătălina Gal
Pisicile magice, volumes 1+2, Vlad B. Popa
Host and moderator: Claudiu T. Arieșan
(Scena Bookfest)
11.30 Humanitas Junior Event - Launch and autograph session
The Most Beautiful Jungle Story by Alexandru N. Stermin The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
With: Alexandru N. Stermin, Mircea Dragu and Gabriela Maaz
(Bookfest Stage)
12.00 Polirom Publishing House - Adelin Petrișor, Live from the front line Adelin Petrișor in dialogue with Melania Cincea
(Bookfest Stage)
12.30 Polirom Publishing - Book launch: Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, The Science of Being and the Art of Living. Transcendental Meditation.
Presented by: Paul Cărămidariu, Adelina Marian, Nicolae Stoian
(Bookfest Café)
12.45 Humanitas Publishing - Elizabeth Gilbert Event
Launch of the memoir Until the Great River Divides Us. Love, loss and liberation
With: Radu Paraschivescu, Alexandru N. Stermin and Cristina Chevereșan
(Scena Bookfest)
13.00 Lebăda Neagră Publishing House - Book launch: Cafeneaua noastră, author Leonard Relea
Guests: Leonard Relea, author, and writers Lili Crăciun and Mugur Ioniță
Moderator: Adrian Christescu, editor
(Cafeneaua Bookfest)
13.15 Humanitas Publishing House - Gabriel Liiceanu Event
Launch of the volumes Strigoii noști and In the Solitude of My Mind
Dialogue with Radu Paraschivescu and Melania Cincea
(Scena Bookfest)
13.30 Crime Scene Press- Book launch: Lupoaica, authors: Dănuț Ungureanu, Marian Truță. Guests: Marian Truță and Horia Nicola Ursu (Crime Scene Press editor), as moderator.
(Cafeneaua Bookfest)
14.00 Trei Publishing House - Book launch and autograph session Iulian Bocai, Dawn's Outpouring. With the author: Raluca Hatmanu
(Scena Bookfest)
14.00 Romanian Academy Publishing House - Collection "One Hundred and One Poems":
Armura de lacrimi, Simona-Grazia Dima
Prin suburbiile cerului, Valeriu Stancu
Nordul, Vasile Macoviciuc
Facerea, Virgil Diaconu
Presented by: acad. Valeriu Matei - general director of the Romanian Academy Publishing House, prof. univ. dr. Simona Modreanu, prof. univ. dr. Adrian Dinu Rachieru, Pompiliu Crăciunescu – editor-in-chief of the Romanian Academy Publishing House
(Bookfest Café)
14.30 Humanitas Fiction Event - Novel launch:
My Refuge, My Storm, Arundhati Roy
People Who Will Always Be With Me, Narine Abgarian With: Ioana Pârvulescu, Radu Paraschivescu, Denisa Comănescu
(Bookfest Stage)
15.00 Humanitas Publishing House - Ioana Pârvulescu Event
Launch of the volume Alfabetul domnilor
Dialogue with Cristina Chevereșan and Alexandru N. Stermin Autograph session
(Bookfest Stage)
15.00 Lebăda Neagră Publishing House - Book launch: Judecătorul Artificial, author Geo Moisi
Guests: Geo Moisi, Daniel Timariu and Adrian Petru Stepan
(Bookfest Café)
15.30 Editura Humanitas - Radu Paraschivescu Event, preview reading of The New Guide to the Senseless – After 20 Years and the launch of the volume By the Power of Ineptitude. New Anthology of Pearls
Dialogue with Cristian Preda. Autograph Session
(Scena Bookfest)
15.30 Junimea Publishing House - Editorial signals:
• Ion CREANGĂ, COMPLETE WRITINGS. Stories, Childhood Memories, Stories, Didactic Stories, Original Lyrics, Popular Poems, Sayings, Sayings, Words, Articles, Polemical Articles, Theater, Correspondence. Edited by Constantin PARASCAN
• Viorel MARINEASA, Views from Timișoara, "Narratio" collection
• Gheorghe FLORESCU, Echoes / Одјеци, the "Migratory Words" collection
• George VIGDOR, I'm Trying to Sit on the Page, "The Other Words" Collection
Presentations by Adrian Dinu RACHIERU, Marcel TOLCEA
Host: Simona MODREANU
(Bookfest Cafe)
16.00 Editura Trei- Book launch and autograph session Bogdan-Alexandru Stănescu, Cuban Fishes. A Century in Essays
With the author: Adriana Babeți and Mircea Mihăieș
(Bookfest Stage)
16.30 Lebăda Neagră Publishing House - Presentation of the short prose anthology A Too Small World, edited by Adrian Petru Stepan and Cristian Vicol. Guests: Adrian Petru Stepan, Cristian Vicol, Mugur Ioniță, Patricia Lidia, Bogdan Piticariu, Geo Moisi and Adrian Christescu
(Bookfest Café)
16.45 Editura Humanitas - Launch and autograph session of History of the Blind. Romania at War, 1940–1945by Alina Pavelescu, Șerban-Liviu Pavelescu
With: Alina Pavelescu, Șerban-Liviu Pavelescu, Daniela Rațiu and Cristian Preda
(Scena Bookfest)
17.30 Editura Humanitas - Event Dan Liviu Boeriu, The Aquarium and some additional evidence. Dialogue with Radu Paraschivescu. Autograph session
(Bookfest Stage)
17.30 Editura Trei - László Krasznahorkai Event - Nobel Prize laureate for literature 2025. Participating: Ildikó Gábos-Foarță and Bogdan-Alexandru Stănescu
(Bookfest Café)
18.00 Sens Publishing House - Book launch: Under the sky sometimes open – Stories of Salbek Castle (Romanian and English version) by Alexandru Potcoavă Guests: Alexandru Potcoavă, Salbek Castle Association
(Scena Bookfest)
18.00 Brumar Publishing House - Book launch: In Somnia Mores, author Mimo Obradov
Guest: Tudor Crețu
(Cafeneaua Bookfest)
18.30 Humanitas Fiction Event - Novel launch:
I dedicate my silence to you,Mario Vargas Llosa
We will not part and The Greek Lesson,Han Kang
With: Dan-Liviu Boeriu, Ioana Pârvulescu and Denisa Comănescu
(Scena Bookfest)
19.00 Humanitas Publishing House - Dan Alexe Event Launch of the autobiographical novel At the Water of the Dead Dialogue with Cristian Preda and Marcel Tolcea. Autograph session
(Scena Bookfest)
Sunday, March 22
10.30 Editura Sens - Ștefan Pușcașu in dialogue with Bogdan Ioja (philologist, theologian and master's student in American Studies), about the phenomenon of cancel culture in the era of modern censorship. Starting from Keyserling's volume Psihanalisa Americii, we explore how these global trends originating in the USA redefine our values and how we can regain the courage to think with SENSE.
(Scena Bookfest)
11.00 Junimea Publishing House - Editorial signals:
• Lucian IONICĂ, The Future of Us, the collection "Orizontul lecturii"
• Casian BALABASCIUC, Stranii povestiri hutțule (vol.I-II), the collection "Quanticipația"
• George LAZĂR, Începutul eternitatei, the collection "Quanticipația"
Presentations by Adrian Dinu RACHIERU, Lucian IONICĂ Host: Simona MODREANU
(Scena Bookfest)
11.00 Universității de VEast of Timișoara - Book launch: Romanian language for our children and others – Illustrated dictionary, with forms and with content, author Emina Căpălnășan
Presented by: Simona Constantinovici, Amalia Secoșan Giulia Fischer and Emina Căpălnășan
(Bookfest Café)
11.30 Publishing House of the West University of Timișoara - Book launch: Videologos. Transmedia thematic readings, author: Cristina Chevereșan and Adina Baya Presented by: Alexandru Condrache, Cristina Chevereșan and Adina Baya (Bookfest Café)
12.00 Polirom Publishing - New items in the Polirom Library collection
Salman Rushdie, The Eleventh Hour. A quintet of stories
Malala Yousafzai, Retracement
Ivo Andrić, The Cursed Court and Other Stories
Harper Lee, The Land of Sweet Eternity
Kev Lambert, Let Our Joy Remain
Juan Gabriel Vásquez, All the Names of Feliza
Yu Yoyo, Nonexistent Cats. Study on the fluidity of cats or oddities about cats
Asta Olivia Nordenhof, Money to throw away
Andreï Makine, Prisoner of the scarlet dream
Jonathan Coe, Witness to my innocence
Raymond Carver, Elephant and other stories
Participants: Dana Crăciun, Carmen Preoteasa, Mihai Gafencu, Otilia Ghițescu, Ina Biebel, Raluca Selejan, Mirela Iacob, Oana Doboși, Radu Pavel Gheo, Radu Paraschivescu, Radu Vancu. Moderator: Dan Croitoru
(Scena Bookfest)
12.00 Romanian Academy Publishing House - "Contemporary Novel" Collection:
The Sun Is Late in Rising, Maria Bulat-Săhărneanu
The Founders, George Aman
Foreign Travelers about the Romanian Countries in the 19th Century, Daniela Bușă (coordinator),
Presented by: academician Valeriu Matei – general director of the Romanian Academy Publishing House, prof. dr. Adrian Dinu Rachieru, Pompiliu Crăciunescu – editor-in-chief of the Romanian Academy Publishing House
(Bookfest Café)
13.00 Polirom Publishing House - Paradis&Transparențaby Radu Vancu
Radu Vancu in dialogue with Raluca Selejan and Oana Doboși
(Scena Bookfest)
13.00 ARI Publishing House - Presentation on "The Wisdom of Kabbalah and the Book of Zohar", lecturer Daniel Meze, director of ARI Publishing House
(Cafeneaua Bookfest)
13.30 Photo contest premiere.
(Cafeneaua Bookfest)
13.45 ARTLIT Association - What am I looking for in your book?
A discussion about the relevance of the book translator, starting from a controversy on social networks and the image of literary translators in public opinion.
Speakers: Mirela Iacob, Ramona Miza, Gabriel Kohn
(Scena Bookfest)
14.15 Lebăda Neagră Publishing House - Meeting with writers from Timisoara
Debate about creativity, technology and authorship: The writer and the algorithm. Who will create the literature of the future?
Guests: Adrian Petru Stepan, Mugur Ioniță, Bogdan Pitacariu, Patricia Lidia, Alex Szöllö , Geo Moisi
Moderator: Adrian Christescu
(Scena Bookfest)
15.00 Publishing House of the West University of Timișoara - Book launch: Public Art in Timișoara after 1989, author: Andreea Lazea
(Scena Bookfest)
15.30 West University of Timișoara Publishing House - Book launch: Narratives of the Body, Disease and Discourse, author: Daniela Șilindean
(Scena Bookfest)
