FLEM 2026 kicks off its sixth edition with 6,000 tickets reserved in less than an hour

PalmaThe sixth edition of the Expanded Literature Festival in Magaluf (FLEM) kicked off this Thursday by breaking a record, with 6,000 tickets reserved in just one hour, the event organizers reported. The official inauguration also marked the first presentation of the FLEM-Magaluf Novel Prize, which debuts this year with the aim of promoting emerging writers in the Spanish language, under 35 years of age, and which in its first call has been awarded to Raúl E. Asencio for Do Not Descend.

Upon receiving the award, Asencio dedicated it to his grandparents, who lived in a cave in Alicante. The author recalled the last conversation with his grandmother, in which they talked about the urgency and the necessity with which they lived until they bought a house. With this memory, he also had some words for those who sleep in a square today, and will continue to do so on Friday and Saturday, and he demanded the need to guarantee a dignified and habitable future for everyone.

This edition also debuts the FLEM Residency, which hosts two authors in Magaluf so they can develop their work during the festival. The first residents are Mar Picó and Amina Saeed, who will present their experience on Friday at the table 'Magaluf: territory of creation', within the FLEM PRO sessions.

Among the first activities, Elisabet Benavent has returned to FLEM after two years in one of the most anticipated meetings of the day.

For his part, Rodrigo Cuevas, National Award for Current Music, gathered 800 people with At the Foot of the Hearth, his proposal between tradition, music, and word.

The FLEM, an initiative of the Rata Corner bookstore and the hotel brand Innside by Melià, continues until Sunday with more than 30 writers, artists, and musicians, among them Anna Todd, David Foenkinos, and Nerea Pérez de las Heras. The program will include talks, readings, concerts, live podcasts, and the so-called 'Secret Rooms'.