We read. We discuss. We connect.
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Our home, the planet
The 4th Chania Book Festival (CBF) concluded with great success, leaving behind six days filled with inspiration, encounters, and lively dialogue about books. This year's event, organized by the Municipality of Chania in collaboration with the Region of Crete and under the auspices of the Hellenic Parliament, opened its doors on Tuesday, June 24, with the official inauguration by the President of the Hellenic Parliament, Mr. Nikitas Kaklamanis, and ended on Sunday, June 29, 2025, in an atmosphere of enthusiasm and participation.
With the central theme "Our home, the planet" and the slogan "We read, we discuss, we connect," the Festival invited the public to reflect on our relationship with the world and nature through the power of literature, speech, and encounter.
From the very first day, the public response was overwhelming. The halls were filled with readers of all ages, who participated in presentations, discussions, readings, and activities for young and old alike. The people of the book, creators, and visitors came together to form a lively and open community, proving that the Chania Book Festival is much more than a cultural event—it is a celebration of ideas, encounters, and inspiration that grows every year.
Highlights Opening Events · 24.06.2025
Highlights Day #1 · 25.06.2025
This year, more than 160 speakers from 16 countries participated in the FBC—writers, academics, translators, philologists, literary critics, journalists, artists—not only from Greece and Cyprus, but also from Haiti, Argentina, Brazil, France, the USA, Italy, Colombia, Cuba, Great Britain, Norway, Portugal, Sweden, Turkey, and the Czech Republic, who took part in approximately 120 thematic discussions, book presentations, workshops, performances, concerts, focusing on contemporary Greek and foreign prose, poetry, and essays from 43 publishers.
Expanding the FBC's connections and cooperation with similar festivals abroad, as well as local, national, and international cultural organizations.
During this year's 4th edition, the FBC discussed topics such as climate change and the relationship between humans and nature, family relationships in their various aspects in today's changing world, complex international geopolitical conditions, and all of these in their interaction with literature. There were also discussions on literary translation, the book market, dialects in Crete and Cyprus, and ways of collaborating between book festivals, with the participation of representatives from important festivals in Greece and abroad, such as the "Oh les beaux jours!" in Marseille, the LEA Festival (Greek-Ibero-American Literature Festival in Athens), the Limassol International Book Fair, and the Sardam International Interthematic Literature Festival in Cyprus.
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Highlights Day #5 · 29.06.2025
Tribute event for Titos Patrikios
"This festival is a significant event. Not only because it brings the city to life, not only because it attracts people from far away, but mainly because it creates dialogue between people. It breaks the loneliness that threatens each of us. And the problem, I think, is basically how to get everyone out of their loneliness and communicate with each other, and thus get to know themselves again. From this point of view, the Chania Festival makes a huge contribution to the effort to bring people together."
