Bulgaria to be guest of honor at the Bookfest International Book Fair 2026 in Bucharest

Bulgaria will be the guest of honor at the International Book Fair Bookfest, which will take place in Bucharest, at Romexpo, between June 3 and 7. Over 20 guests, including the most important Bulgarian writer of the moment, Georgi Gospodinov, will come to Bucharest to take part in a rich series of debates, book launches, and autograph sessions, according to Agerpres.

Among the guests will be some who “have also recently had new books translated into Romanian, such as Georgi Gospodinov, Ioanna Elmy, Elena Alexieva, Nadejda Radulova, Kostadin Kostadinov, Emil Andreev, or Ivan Stankov,” but also the author of children’s books, Petya Kokudeva, according to the Bulgarian Ministry of Culture.