The Feria Internacional del Libro Monterrey 2026 opens this October 10 at Cintermex, inside Parque Fundidora, with close to 600 activities and around 400 authors from more than 13 countries, and with El Colegio Nacional as Guest of Honor.

According to El Universal, the fair reaches its 34th edition, organized by Tecnológico de Monterrey, and runs through October 18 with free admission. Proceso reports that the exhibition area grew 12 percent, to 21 thousand square meters, and that the program includes a philosophy gathering, activities for children and young people, and a socio-environmental strand. Milenio adds that the program spans poetry, science and literature, with a children's pavilion dedicated to air and activities for publishing professionals. The fair's director, Henoc de Santiago, said the gathering seeks to promote the humanities inside and outside Tecnológico de Monterrey. For readers in northeastern Mexico and the southern United States, Monterrey concentrates nine days of direct access to international authors without having to travel to Mexico City.

The 2008 Nobel Prize in Literature winner, Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio, takes part on Sunday, October 11 at 12:00 hours in the Auditorio JAC, with an appearance transmitted from France with a hologram effect and dedicated to Alfonso Reyes, according to Proceso. Among the announced authors are Emmanuel Carrère, Gioconda Belli, Leonardo Padura, Janne Teller, Rita Dove and Alberto Manguel. El Colegio Nacional is installing a 200 square meter pavilion with more than 800 titles and a program featuring ten of its members, among them Enrique Krauze, Juan Villoro and Cristina Rivera Garza, and closes on Sunday the 18th at 17:00 hours with José Ramón Cossío Díaz. El Colegio Nacional also commemorates the centennials of Miguel León-Portilla and Teodoro González de León.

The fair remains open through October 18 at Cintermex, with free admission, and its full program can be consulted on the event's official site. These are nine days of panels, book signings and presentations for a reading community that stretches across both sides of the border.

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