This April 12, 13 and 14, 2024, the Grand Palais Ephémère is hosting the third edition of the Paris Book Festival (previously Paris Book Fair), organized by the National Publishing Union (SNE). What is the program for this major literary event, which this year puts Quebec in the spotlight?

Every year, the Paris Book Festival brings together the world of publishing as well as a wide and rich overview of current editorial creation, for all ages and audiences. For this 2024 edition, 320 authors will speak on the 6 stages of the Grand Palais Ephémère. The event is organized by theme, and makes it possible to cross approaches between literary genres (fiction, non-fiction, comics, young adult), also to encourage meetings and synergy between book professionals, authors, winners of literary prizes, novelists, French and international essayists. The meeting also welcomes filmmakers, actors, visual artists, musicians and organizes round tables, comic meetings, writing workshops, workshops for children, concerts and artistic performances, as well as conferences for people interested in careers. of publishing.

What is the program of the Paris Book Festival?

On the program for the Paris Book Festival: signing sessions, readings, interviews, debates, conferences and speeches by 329 authors on the 6 stages of the Grand Palais Ephémère and in other emblematic places in the capital. Among the authors present, it will be possible to meet Marc Levy, Nicolas Mathieu, Amélie Nothomb, Hélène Dorion and even Rachida Brakni.
Each year, the Paris Book Festival honors a guest country: its most representative authors, its readers, its issues, its society. This year, place in Quebec, whose literary scene is in full swing, twenty-five years after its official presence at the Salon in 1999! Readers will have the opportunity to discover this French-speaking region through its book professionals, its authors, its booksellers.

On the sidelines of the event, the Grand Dictation of the Games will be held. 100 days before the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics, this giant dictation on the Champ-de-Mars motivated by the values ​​of Olympism will be hosted by the journalist and novelist Rachid Santaki, in the presence of Agnès Martin-Lugand, David Foenkinos and Marc Lévy.

Find the official program and practical information on the website of the Paris Book Festival.

Where does the Paris Book Festival take place?

The event, which previously took place at Paris Expo Porte de Versailles, will be held this year at the Grand Palais Ephémère, located Place Jules Joffre 75007 Paris.
Off-site programming is also on the agenda, and will be held in emblematic places in the capital: Grand Amphithéâtre de la Sorbonne, Maison de la Poésie, Académie du climat, Musée des Arts et Métiers, Collège des Bernardins, Marguerite Yourcenar Media Library…