High school students with free entry to the Babell literary festival

Segundo the municipality, which co-productions the festival with the Livraria Lello Foundation, “is exempt from the prior purchase of a book” to students from 10th to 12th year, who are “in phase of dating the book”.

“ Your participation in Babell sessions will be free, upon presentation of your student card in a bookstore, which will serve to prove the frequency of the secondary school cycle in a school in Porto. As an exchange currency, the student receives a password” for a session at the festival, which must then be converted into an online ticket, can be read in a statement.

The Porto Chamber warns that participation is subject to the filling of each space, with several sessions already exhausted in the inaugural edition of the event, which will take place in the Gomes Teixeira Square, the Porto Colosseum and several other places, mainly putting international writers to talk, including two winners with the Nobel Prize in Literature.

The program also has events thought of families and children, as well as formations, exhibitions, street interventions, poetry and cinema, beyond conversations with national and international writers.

In the education chapter, a colloquium dedicated to this theme and to reading will take place, on the morning of June 29, with the presence of current and former rulers, in addition to the presentation of the municipal program to promote literacy, entitled Port of Words.

The Polish Olga Tokarczuk, Nobel Prize for Literature in 2018, is one of the highlights of the event, alongside the artist Cai Guo-Qiang, who signs an artistic spectacle in the skies under the Douro River, besides another Nobel Prize for Literature, the latter in 2025, László Krasznahorkai.

The Hungarian author of “The Tango of Satan” and “Herscht 07769” joins the British Salman Rushdie, Julian Barnes and Margaret Atwood among the highlights, as well as Conceição Evaristo, Héctor Abad Faciolince, Javier Cercas and Byung-Chul Han, among others.

Lusophonia is represented, the organization advances, by names such as Lídia Jorge, Gonçalo M. Tavares, Ana Paula Tavares, Valter Hugo Mãe, Conceição Evaristo, Milton Hatoum, João de Melo, Dulce Maria Cardoso, Djamilia Pereira de Almeida and Bruno Vieira Amaral, among others.