The Madrid Book Fair faces this Sunday its final day with a provisional balance of more than 600,000 unique visitors, who have toured the booths of the El Retiro Park Car Paseo, between its opening day, on May 30, and June 11. Missing the last four days of this edition to know the total number of attendees.
The volume of business, also provisional, of the 359 booths that have formed the Madrid literary event this year have been estimated at more than seven and a half million euros collected, selling a total of 450,749 copies until 9:00 p.m. on Thursday, June 12.
These provisional results are similar to those of the last edition: 5,580,000 euros collected and 550,000 unique visitors measured between May 31 and June 9, 2024.
Several incidents related to weather conditions have originated losses to booksellers and editors in this edition, although it is something that has also happened in previous editions.
The names of national and international literature have passed this year, such as “María Negroni, Juan Gabriel Vásquez, Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, Javier Cercas, Pierre Lemaitre, Vivian Gornick, Marta Sanz, Rebecca Solnit, Junot Díaz, Rosa Montero, David Uclés, Catherine Lacey, Enrique Vila-Matas, Ray Origa. Katie Kitamura and Claudia Piñeiro, among many others, ”said the director of Flmadrid, Eva Orue.
This year, tributes have been held to Carmen Martín Gaite, Ana María Matute, Federico García Lorca, Nora Ephron, Mario Vargas Llosa and Paul Auster. Space has also been given to radio programs and podcast Live, like Weekly defor, Friend, realize, Do you stay to read? o What are you reading? with the intention of attracting new audiences through new diffusion channels. In addition, the European Pavilion has commemorated the 40 years of the accession of Spain to the European communities, signed on June 12, 198, through talks, meetings and informative activities.
Majority of local visitors
Almost two thirds of the total people who visited the fair in this edition are Madrid. This follows from the mobility analysis of Telefónica Tech it follows that the bulk of the public comes from the city of Madrid itself and its closest environment. In fact, more than 280,000 visitors, almost 47 % of the total, reside in Madrid Capital. To them are added more than 111,000 people from other municipalities of the Community of Madrid, especially from the South, such as Leganés, Fuenlabrada, Getafe and Móstoles, the organization of the literary event in a statement points out this Sunday.
🗽 ➡️ 🎭 Humor will illuminate the #FLMadrid26.
We will celebrate laughter as a refuge, as a criticism, as a way of telling the world and exploring the comic in its multiple forms. Because laughing is also a way of thinking. pic.twitter.com/nnlKiVKgL9
– Madrid Book Fair (@FLMadrid) June 15, 2025
New York, thematic axis of this 84 edition, will give the witness to the humor, protagonist of the next thread of the Flmadrid26, which will be held from May 29 to June 14. In the words of the humorist Joaquín Reyes, present in the presentation act, “it was time to dedicate an edition to humor. He has that stigma of being something frivolous, as if he could not tell stories that move. But there are many types of humor, many forms of comedy, and satire is a genre that allows telling stories that transcend. It seems that humor reduces, but it is not so,” he explained.