The Eñe Festival celebrates its 18th edition with poetry as its central theme and Poland as the guest country.

2026/06/17

The Eñe Festival, an international festival of literature and creative arts, returns this autumn for its 18th edition. The event will take place from November 6th to 25th in Madrid and from November 26th to 29th in Málaga, with poetry as its central theme and Poland as the guest country. The agreement with the Polish Cultural Institute, in collaboration with the Adam Mickiewicz Institute, was signed at the Círculo de Bellas Artes, one of the festival's key venues.

The program will bring together leading figures from literature, music, and thought in more than one hundred free activities, spread across emblematic spaces such as the Círculo de Bellas Artes, the Prado Museum, the Teatro de la Abadía, the Instituto Cervantes, and the Centro Cultural Generación del 27. Through talks between Polish, Spanish, and Latin American authors, theatrical pieces, and film screenings, Eñe will bring the poetry, theater, and narrative of Poland—one of Europe's most renowned literary traditions—closer to the public.

The choice of poetry as a guiding thread takes on special significance within the context of the centenary commemoration of the Generation of '27: in collaboration with the Círculo de Bellas Artes (Circle of Fine Arts), the festival will develop a special event that will serve as a prelude to the centenary celebrations. This edition thus reaffirms the enduring relevance of a genre capable of engaging with the present, in the words of its artistic director, Jesús Ruiz Mantilla, as one of the best tools against discouragement and barbarity.

The full program, schedules and updated information can be found on the official Eñe Festival website.