Czechia 2026, concert
Mikulov Town Cimbalom Band CM TourOld
Frankfurter Buchmesse - Czechia 2026 Pavilion - Harbour Stage
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 programreading
Lesung aus ABCD meines Lebens mit Radvana Kraslová
Kraslová Radvana
Frankfurter Buchmesse - Halle 3, Stand D87
Czechia 2026, debate
Talking about literature: the purpose of the literary festival
Basset Guillaume
Hejkalová Markéta
Šilpochová Michaela
Frankfurter Buchmesse - Czechia 2026 Pavilion - Shore Stage
Czechia 2026, reading
Telling Her Story: Women, Trains, and the Weight of History
Frankfurter Buchmesse - Czechia 2026 Pavilion - Harbour Stage
reading
»Aber pass auf!« Der Autor Pavel Novotný liest aus seinen performativen Texten
Frankfurter Buchmesse - Halle 3, Stand D87
Czechia 2026, debate
Grants supporting publication of books in translation: Czech Republic and EU
del Mar Martín María
Fojtík Michal
Frankfurter Buchmesse - Czech National Stand 3.1 / C65
Czechia 2026, debate
When Czech books speak Spanish
Gonzálezová Iveta
Pérez Héctor F. Santiago
Tarrida Joan
Frankfurter Buchmesse - Czechia 2026 Pavilion - Shore Stage
debate
Gespräch mit Jan Drees (Deutschlandfunk Kultur)
Frankfurter Buchmesse - Stand von Deutschlandradio, Halle 3.1 H 15
Czechia 2026, debate
Translating Europe: The ENLit Network and its Support for Literary Translation and Translators
Arretxe Izaskun
di Blasio Eleonora
Vanoosthuyse Elise
Frankfurter Buchmesse - Czechia 2026 Pavilion - Harbour Stage
Czechia 2026, debate
How Czech literature is received in the Francophone world
Agullo Nadege
Meulemans David
Sirotchouk Tatiana
Frankfurter Buchmesse - Czechia 2026 Pavilion - Shore Stage
News
Přeskočit novinky
Our translators: Nataša von Kopp
Novel for Frankfurt: The winners have been announced
Czech Literature in the German-speaking Media in August
Our translators: Eva Profousová
Interview with Tomáš Kubíček on the Samizdat exhibition
Photo Report from the Exhibition “Samizdat: Words of Freedom in Czechoslovakia, 1939–1989”
On Kafka, creative writing and children’s books: An interview with Radek Malý
Studio JinJan will bring a small rock city to the Frankfurt Book Fair. An interview with the architects
Our translators: Patrik Valouch
Put the fly swatters aside. Dora Kaprálová Brings “Mariborská hypnóza” to Frankfurt
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