Turning pages, opening horizons
The Chania Book Festival (CBF), organised by the Municipality of Chania in co-organisation with the Region of Crete, returns for its fifth consecutive year in Chania from Monday 22 to Sunday 28 June 2026 under the central theme Worlds in Conflict. The festival will take place at the Venetian Harbour of the city, between the Center of Mediterranean Architecture (Grand Arsenal) and the Mikis Theodorakis Theatre.
At a time when certainties are being shaken and social, political and cultural polarities are intensifying, the 5th CBF – timely and interventionist in nature – with the participation of prominent Greek and international authors, publishers, translators, academics and thinkers, will focus on the contrasts that define the contemporary world: peace and war, open borders and fortified walls, democracy and the rise of the far right, economic development and social inequalities, emerging individual rights and the revival of conservative identities, spirituality and fanaticism, human creativity and artificial intelligence, among others.
Through literature and essay writing, the 5th CBF seeks to highlight conflict not only as rupture, but also as a field of encounter, dialogue, understanding and coexistence between different worlds.
Speakers to be announced.
For more information, visit the Chania Book Festival (CBF) website.