
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 program
Lucie Lučanská: COZI Festival
Lučanská Lucie
Marek Torčík in conversation with Welsh author Anthony Shapland
Shapland Anthony
Torčík Marek

The individual in a turbulent world that has become unreadable

People with no destiny: the literature of existential crisis

The Landscape of Literature

Contemporary stories with social motivation

Me in the Network
Humans and work: precarity and working poverty
Čechová Miřenka
Háblová Anna Beata
Miesenböck Julia
Šesták Petr

Movement and freedom in contemporary nonfiction for children
Video spot for the Guest of Honour
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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

