Festival Borges 2026: six days of literature and artistic crossings in Buenos Aires

What was scheduled and where it takes place

Festival Borges 2026 was scheduled to begin on Monday, October 26, at 2 p.m. in the City of Buenos Aires and will run through Saturday, October 31, according to the city’s official agenda and the festival website. The programme combines in-person talks, online sessions and an “Experiencia Borges” strand that connects literature with music, tango, walks, interviews and technology.

The festival’s in-person talks are based at the Alianza Francesa, at Av. Córdoba 946, in Retiro; other Experiencia Borges proposals, such as the Borges-themed walk, should be checked through each activity’s registration details. The official agenda says admission is free, with prior registration through the festival website; as with this kind of event, availability may change depending on capacity and schedules.

The literary programme

The 2026 edition is organised in a hybrid format: six in-person talks at the Alianza Francesa and four online conversations on YouTube. For the opening day, the Buenos Aires agenda listed a virtual session on “Borges y Sir Thomas Browne” at 2 p.m. and an in-person talk titled “El humor como una de las bellas artes” at 6 p.m.

Participants announced on the official pages include Siri Hustvedt, Carmen Boullosa, Oswaldo Zavala, Sylvia Iparraguirre, Luisa Valenzuela, Juan Sasturain, Daniel Guebel, Juan Mattio, Ricardo Romero and Matilde Sánchez, among others. The cycle is centred on reading Borges through contemporary exchanges, critical conversations and links with other literary traditions.

Experiencia Borges: beyond the classic talk

Alongside the programme of panels and conversations, the official agenda includes “Experiencia Borges”, a strand of activities that seeks to move the author’s work beyond a strictly academic format. It includes an interview with Mauricio Kartun, a poetic-musical proposal by La Funes, a tango performance connected to the Borgean universe, a themed walk and an art, science and technology activity with Joaquín Fargas.

For readers in Argentina, the practical interest is that the festival offers a concentrated week to revisit Borges through different registers: the lecture, the interview, music, tango, the urban walk and online streaming. Borges does not need to be presented as new; the news is how the programme builds, over six days, a broad and free entry point into his work.