Czechia:
A Country on the Coast
From October 7 to 11, 2026, the Czech Republic will be the Guest of Honour at the world's largest book fair held in Frankfurt am Main.
The Year of Czech Culture, comprising dozens of events about literature and other arts, will take place in the German-speaking countries until December 2026.
Programme
Guest of Honour
Přeskočit programServus & Ahoj München
Beneš Eli
Denemarková Radka
Horáčková Alice
Torčík Marek

Live drawing: Then and Now, with Mikuláš Podprocký

Live drawing: Then and Now, with Mikuláš Podprocký

Grand opening of the Czech National Stand

Mikulov: town of literature and literary town
Understanding and utilising cultural influences in visual language
Dahmen Tobi
Fürstenau Rita
S. Zhu Christina
It’s possible, surely? Czech literature in German translation
Kraetsch Mirko
Marzolff Sophia
Miesenböck Julia

Live Drawing: De-evolution, with Stanislav Setinský

Mikulov Town Cimbalom Band CM TourOld
News
Přeskočit novinky
Frankfurt commemorates Václav Havel with a new bench

Czech Literature in the German-speaking Media in September

Literature and film complement and enrich each other. Check out our film program

Photo report from the exhibition ‘Garden Utopias: A Look at the Landscapes of the Future’

Photo Report from the Exhibition “I Married the Czech Language: Reiner Kunze and Czech Poetry”

Six days of live drawing in the Guest of Honour Pavilion at the Frankfurt Book Fair

6 Reasons to Stop by the Czech-German Future Fund Booth

Explore the Frankfurt Book Fair with the Book Pass

Photo Report from the Opening of the Exhibition “Beyond Paper Plane” / More Than Flat Paper

Photo report from the exhibition ‘More is Now! New Czech Architecture’
Video spot for the Guest of Honour
Turn on subtitles from the bottom bar of the video.
Czech book market in 2024
Number of published books
12 100
Proportion of books published in Czech
> 88 %
Extent of the Czech book market
CZK 8.2 bn
Number of registered publishing houses
6 321
Number of translations into Czech
5 684

