The eighteenth edition of the event “Molière Days” will take place from 11 to 26 May, offering meetings with contemporary Francophone writers, as well as their translators, publishers and readers.
The programme begins on 11 May at the French Institute in Belgrade with a special guest appearance by author Benoît Peeters, who will present himself as the biographer of philosopher Jacques Derrida. The following day, in Novi Sad, he will discuss his biography of psychoanalyst Sándor Ferenczi.
Audiences will then meet him as a comics theorist and an expert on the work of the renowned comic artist Hergé and his even more famous character Tintin on 13 May in Belgrade, the French Institute announced.
As announced, Peeters – also the scriptwriter of the comic series The Obscure Cities (Les Cités obscures) – will take part in a discussion on the topic “Comics and Architecture” on 14 May at the Cultural Centre of Belgrade, as part of Belgrade International Architecture Week.
A special highlight of “Molière Days” will be the Francophone Book Salon. For this occasion, from 13 to 16 May, the French Institute in Knez Mihailova Street will be transformed into a fair-like setting, thanks to cooperation with Serbian publishers.
As announced, the book fair will then move to the Zenit bookshop in Novi Sad from 20 to 23 May. On 13 May, the French Institute in Belgrade will also host Valérie Lévy-Soussan, director of the French publishing house Audiolib, which specialises in audiobooks.
The French Institute has also announced talks and workshops in Belgrade on 15 and 16 May with children’s author Anne-Gaëlle Balpe, organised in cooperation with Kreativni Centar, the Serbian publisher of her book Tića and the Cheerful Llama Crew.
To conclude “Molière Days”, which offers free admission, organisers have announced a French-German poetry evening on 26 May at the Goethe-Institut in Belgrade. On that occasion, translator Nevenka Balanesković will present her collection of translated poetry “Poet, Where Are You? A New Reading of French and German Classics.”
(Euronews, 06.05.2026)
https://www.euronews.rs/kultura/aktuelno-iz-kulture/222441/molijerovi-dani-od-11-do-26-maja/vest
