International Literature and Translation Festival (FILIT) Iași is a project in its eleventh edition that brings together book professionals from the country and abroad in Iași. Writers, translators, editors, festival organizers, literary critics, booksellers, book distributors, managers and cultural journalists – they will all be at the center of events intended, on the one hand, for the general public, but also for specialists in the field, on the other other.
After the 2013 edition, the Spanish daily El Pais declared that FILIT “is already, in its first edition, the most important literary festival in Eastern Europe”, and the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung appreciated that “an event of such scope and of such European cut has never existed in Romania”.
FILIT is one of the biggest literary festivals in Europe. The aspects noted are the large presence of the public, the interest shown by it, the involvement of the community through numerous volunteers and related events, as well as the high number of events and their geographical distribution – cultural activities are carried out throughout the city, but also in other localities in Iași County.