From Friday to Sunday > 26th Leukerbad International Literary Festival from 24 to 26 June 2022

Festival focus

Friday 24 June
09:30 – 12:00		Literary walk in the Dala Gorge
11:00 – 24:00		Readings and conversationsat various venues
20:00 – 24:00		Evening readings
24:00 – 01:00		Midnight reading on the Torrent Pass (2325 meters elevation)

Saturday 25 June
09:30 – 12:00		Literary walk in the Dala Gorge
10:30		Translators’ colloquium presentation
11:00 – 24:00		Readings and conversationsat various venues
20:00 – 22:45		Evening readings

Sunday 26 June
10:00 – 13:00 Uhr		Readings and conversationsat various venues
13:00 – 15:30 Uhr		Afternoon readings in the garden of the Hotel Les Sources des Alpes
		Au revoir! Auf Wiedersehen! Good bye!

This information is provisional. The detailed programme with exact times and locations will be posted just before the festival. Print versions will be available at the festival office.

Large audience, small venue: some events may sell out quickly. We appreciate your understanding if we must limit audience size for security reasons. Several choices are offered during most event times.

Pablo’s Lounge
The oldest and most traditional festival bar in Le Bristol serves poetic drinks from Thursday to Saturday, on Saturday from 23:30 with DJ Mifume. Other festival bars in the Hotel Les Sources des Alpes and in the Baldwin tent.

Poetry films
The ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival is showing its Best-of.

Festival tents
For the second time we are setting up two tents in Leukerbad for the literature festival. The “James Baldwin tent” will be on the meadow next to the Old Bath St. Laurent, and another tent on the village square, where the ZAP festival bookshop from Brig can be found. This allows us to react flexibly to any hygiene requirements and the weather.