Più libri più liberi

The scenic Nuvola by Fuksas will once again host Più libri più liberi, the national fair entirely dedicated to Small and Medium-sized Publishers, which released 49,107 new titles in 2023 alone.

This year, the event sees the presence of 597 exhibitors from all over Italy who will present their new titles and their catalogue to the public.

Five days and more than 700 appointments, at Più libri più liberi you will be able to listen to authors, attend readings, debates and meet professional operators.

The theme of this 23rd edition is The Measure of the World and pays tribute to the 700th anniversary of the death of Marco Polo, traveller and author of The Million. From this masterpiece of travel literature to contemporary classic novels, the 2024 edition of Più libri più liberi is dedicated to imagination, the exact measure of the world and what it contains. If reading is travelling new territories and thoughts, books become the map.

Once again this year, the Nuvola Auditorium will host events with leading figures from the worlds of culture, entertainment and information, including the Spanish writer Alicia Giménez-Bartlett, the most popular Italian cartoonist on social media, Sio, pseudonym of Simone Albrigi, Professor Alessandro Barbero, Carlo Rovelli, who will guide us through some of the inevitable stages of the revolution that shook physics in the 20th century, the eagerly awaited and multi-award-winning journalist and writer Patrick Winn, who has won the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award, a National Press Club prize and three times the Human Rights Press Awards Amnesty International, and many others. Kennedy Journalism Award, a National Press Club award and Amnesty International's Human Rights Press Awards three times, in dialogue with Roberto Saviano, and many others.

Più libri più liberi will be the stage for meetings and debates with the protagonists of the information sector with, among others, Marco Travaglio, Nello Trocchia and the journalists Paola Caridi and Francesca Mannocchi, who have always been engaged on the war fronts.

A section of the cultural programme will be devoted to poetry, science, a subject deeply rooted in our direct experience of the world, with Italian and foreign experts, to the world of comics and graphic novels, and to literature for young people, the focus of several meetings with authors.

Every year Più libri più liberi hosts major national prizes including the Premio Strega Ragazze e Ragazzi, awarded to books of fiction for children and young people published in Italy.

The 2024 edition of Più libri più liberi is in memory of Giulia Cecchettin, murdered on 11 November 2023, and Giacomo Gobbato, murdered on 21 September 2024 to defend a woman who had been assaulted, because violence against women does not only concern women but concerns us all.

At Più libri più liberi a space will be dedicated to the radio account of the fair in collaboration with Radio Sapienza, the official webradio of Sapienza University of Rome: Studio Antenna Sapienza will tell, through interviews and in-depth analysis, what is happening inside the Nuvola, with new formats and dialogues with guests.

The official hashtag of the event is #piulibri24.

Also available from 20 November is the event's app for iOS and Android devices, updated with new functions that will allow visitors to build their own itinerary around the fair, finding their favourite publishers on the map and adding events not to be missed to the calendar.