Trg od knjige — Book Square

Regional publishers set up their stalls across the square, and each night brings author events — readings, launches and conversations with writers, held in the open with the sea air drifting up from the bay. The 2026 fair, confirmed for 21–28 July, includes an evening with authors of the Belgrade publisher Clio on 24 July. Concerts and drama performances round out the evenings, so literature shares the square with music and theatre.

Mornings belong to the youngest: children's literary programmes turn the square into a daytime storybook before the evening crowds return. The combination of browsing, listening and lingering makes it less a fair than a week-long literary salon in the open air.

That salon quality is the tradition the fair protects. For over two decades it has kept books at the centre of Herceg Novi's peak summer week — an argument, renewed nightly, that a holiday town can gather around an author as happily as around a stage.

Everything is free. The square sits inside the Old Town's stone lanes, a short climb from the waterfront — come at dusk, browse the stalls, and stay for whichever author or concert the night offers. Eight nights, 21 to 28 July, means even a short stay will catch at least one.