The Magaluf Expanded Literature Festival takes place on a contradiction that is difficult to avoid. For four days, books occupy one of the great epicenters of mass tourism and binge drinking in Mallorca. They do so hand in hand with the hotel chain Melià, a company that is an exponent of 'balearization,' the export of the intensive tourism model first implemented in the Archipelago and transferred all over the world.

When someone thinks about going to a literary festival, they don't imagine they could leave with a tattooed arm or shoulder. The unknown in the equation is isolated when you add FLEM to Magaluf: the Magaluf Expanded Literature Festival, a festival that long ago stopped considering literature as an isolated discipline and has exposed it to coexistence with electronics, urban art, tattoos, podcasts, games, and even karaoke.

The 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.

Reading a book on a toy surfboard in a wave pool at a hotel on one of the most overexploited beaches in Mallorca. This is how the sixth edition of the Magaluf Expanded Literature Festival, the FLEM, is being promoted, which will take place from October 1st to 4th in one of the world's epicenters of excess tourism. The hook is clear: literature can also be fun, and the FLEM has come to provoke and break the schemes of classic festivals, against academicism and against solemnity.

The Magaluf Expanded Literature Festival (FLEM) has announced the first literary residency in the town, a program offering two ten-day creation grants for writers working in Catalan and English. The residences will take place at the Innside Calvià Beach hotel and include accommodation, travel, an economic endowment of 500 euros, and participation in the next edition of the festival. The deadline for submitting applications will be open until June 15, and applications must be sent through the form available on the event's website.the event's website.

The Magaluf Expanded Literature Festival (FLEM), organized by Rata Corner and INNSiDE by Meliá, closed its fifth edition this Sunday with a resounding success with the public and critics, consolidating its position as one of the most important cultural events on the national literary calendar.

Siri Hustvedt's (Northfield, 1955) hands punctuate her speech, as serene as it is firm. They become calmer when she remembers her husband, the writer Paul Auster, who died in April 2024 and is the subject of her next book, Ghost stories, "one collage documentary" that has given him peace in his grief.

The 2025 Magaluf Expanded Literature Festival (FLEM) will be held from October 2 to 5, and throughout these dates will host personalities from the world of literature such as Siri Hustvedt, Rita Bullwinkel, Joana Marcús, Javier Cercas and Isaac Rosa, among others.

In addition to Helen Fielding, Pedro Mairal and Antonia VicensAmong many others, one of the protagonists of the new edition of FLEM, which will take place from October 2 to 5 in Magaluf, will be the painter Joan Miró. The arrival of ten lithographs from a series of twenty, linked to the poetry collection Wonders with acrostic variations in Miró's garden, by Rafael Alberti, in one of the rooms of the INNSiDE Calviá Beach hotel is the result of a collaboration agreement between the festival, organized by the Rata Corner bookstore and INNSiDE by Melià, and the Miró Mallorca Foundation, which was presented this Wednesday morning.

Irish novelist John Boyne, who achieved worldwide fame for The boy in the striped pajamas, heads the list of confirmed participants in the fifth edition of the Magaluf Expanded Literature Festival (FLEM), which will be held from October 2 to 5 at the Innside Calvià Beach hotel.