📚 Literature Hub - Where Worlds Are Born

Literature is one of the historical pillars of Trolls & Legends. Long before films, series, mangas, or video games, fantasy was first built in books: novels, short stories, cycles, and great sagas that invent worlds, mythologies, and larger-than-life characters. Fantasy, as a genre, is defined as imaginative fiction based on the "strangeness of places and beings", with other worlds, other times, magic, and supernatural creatures that do not exist in reality.

From April 3 to 5, 2026 in Mons, the Literature Hub becomes a true book fair dedicated to imaginations: a space where stories leap off the pages to become encounters, discussions, favorites, and sometimes, sparks of writing for those who dream of crossing "to the other side of the table."

✒️ A book fair dedicated to imaginations

At the Literature Hub, authors, publishers, booksellers, and readers come together in one place. Books are no longer just simple objects lined up on a shelf: they become the starting point for a direct exchange between those who write and those who read.

Literary festivals are now recognized as places where literature is experienced as much as it is read: new voices are discovered, inspirations and creative paths are better understood, and literature is experienced as a lively conversation rather than a solitary practice.

🌘 From Shadow to Light: the 2026 Theme

In the spirit of the "From Shadow to Light" edition, the Literature Hub highlights the diversity of narratives, tones, and sensibilities. Fantasy is not a homogeneous block: it unfolds into a mosaic of sub-genres that range from the brightest light to the darkest twilight.

For this edition, you will encounter both solar epics and dives into dark fantasy, strange tales and urban universes haunted by the supernatural, rewritings of myths and intimate stories where magic primarily serves to speak of very human wounds and hopes. The guiding principle remains the same: to explore how stories transition their characters - and their readers - from a form of shadow to a form of light, whether moral, emotional, or symbolic.

💬 Fantasy as a Mirror and a Refuge

Fantasy is often seen as a genre of escape, and that is true: it allows one to leave the confines of reality for a few hundred pages. But behind dragons, impossible cities, or ancient magics, it remains a dialogue with the real world. Whether it's about power, injustice, solidarity, memory, transmission, or our relationship with the living, the secondary worlds of fantasy offer a perspective that allows us to think differently about what we experience here and now.

At the Literature Hub, these issues become visible: one can question an author about how their universe reflects our current reality, what their monsters or gods convey, and the reasons that led them to write characters on the margins, in exile, or in search of redemption. Fantasy then ceases to be "just entertainment" to reveal itself as a space for reflection, consolation, and sometimes resistance.

🌟 A Space for All Readers

The Literature Hub is designed to welcome very different profiles: long-time readers coming to reconnect with their favorite authors, people discovering fantasy through the festival, teenagers in search of their first great saga, visitors drawn by music, games, or comics who leave with a novel under their arm.

Everyone can find their entry point: a cover that catches the eye, an intriguing summary, a recommendation slipped in by a bookseller, an impromptu conversation with an author or another reader in the signing line. Literary festivals play a crucial role in this sensitive discovery: they give a face to those who write and transform reading, often solitary, into a shared experience.

TL26 - Literature Program - Saturday

TL26 - Literature Program - Sunday

Autograph regulations 2026

Guests

Sat. 4/4 - 10:00 - 13:00, 14:00 - 19:00

Sun. 5/4 - 10:00 - 13:00, 14:00 - 16:30

Victor DIXEN - Les Mystères d'Eversand (nouveauté)

Adrien PARTY - Stoker et Dracula : la fabrique d'une légende

Sat. 4/4 - 10:00 - 13:00, 14:00 - 19:00

Sun. 5/4 - 10:00 - 13:00

Adrien Party - auteur (Vampirologie) & fondateur du webzine Vampirisme

Sat. 4/4 - 10:00 - 13:00, 14:00 - 19:00

Sun. 5/4 - 10:00 - 13:00, 14:00 - 18:00

Adrien Tomas_ auteur de fantasy

Alexandre DESOUTTER - Thorvald au fil des vagues dorées

Sat. 4/4 - 10:00 - 13:00, 14:00 - 19:00

Sun. 5/4 - 10:00 - 13:00, 14:00 - 18:00

Alexandre Desoutter _Thorvald au fil d'Or (saga islandaise)

Ariel HOLZL - Magie et Sentiments : À la découverte des Secrets de Longdawn

Sat. 4/4 - 10:00 - 13:00, 14:00 - 19:00

Sun. 5/4 - 10:00 - 13:00, 14:00 - 18:00

A rising star in fantasy

Sat. 4/4 - 10:00 - 13:00, 14:00 - 19:00

Sun. 5/4 - 10:00 - 13:00, 14:00 - 15:00

Aurélie Luong - L'envol des sables (Argyll) - Romans de fantasy centrés sur les personnages

Benjamin LUPU - Le Gardien du Crépuscule

Sat. 4/4 - 10:00 - 13:00, 14:00 - 18:30

Sun. 5/4 - 10:00 - 13:00, 14:00 - 18:00

Benjamin Lupu : Le Solstice des ombres Tome 1 est dans la sélection Troll d'or

Claire DUVIVIER - Capitale du Nord — Chroniques de la Tour de Garde

Sat. 4/4 - 10:00 - 12:00, 14:00 - 17:30

Sun. 5/4 - 10:00 - 13:00, 14:00 - 19:00

Claire DUVIVIER - Autrice française de fantasy (Cycle La Tour de Garde, Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire)

Dari GATTI - Visage entouré d'arabesques végétales

Sat. 4/4 - 10:00 - 12:00, 14:00 - 18:00

Sun. 5/4 - 10:00 - 12:00

Dari Gatti - illustrateur

Debby EGG - Un héritage d'honneur et de sang - Tome 1

Sat. 4/4 - 10:00 - 13:00, 14:00 - 19:00

Sun. 5/4 - 10:00 - 13:00, 14:00 - 16:00

Debby EGG - a romantasy on the waves

Ellie GREEN - Aventurière au bord de l'eau avec un chapeau de pirate et des lunettes steampunk

Sat. 4/4 - 10:00 - 13:00, 14:00 - 19:00

Sun. 5/4 - 10:00 - 13:00, 14:00 - 18:00

Ellie S. GREEN

Sat. 4/4 - 10:00 - 13:00, 14:00 - 19:00

Sun. 5/4 - 10:00 - 13:00, 14:00 - 18:00

Eva Martin - Autrice de fantasy - Miska (2023) & De l'Or dans les Mains (2025)

Fanny CALDIN - Les Arcanes de Brume : L'Oracle Maudit

Sat. 4/4 - 10:00 - 13:00, 14:00 - 19:00

Sun. 5/4 - 10:00 - 13:00, 14:00 - 18:00

Fanny CALDIN

Georgia CALDERA - Le Serment d'Eldenai : Danselame - Un voyage épique au cœur de l'imaginaire

Sat. 4/4 - 10:00 - 13:00, 14:00 - 17:00

Sun. 5/4 - 10:00 - 13:00, 14:00 - 17:00

Georgia CALDERA

Guillaume CHAMANADJIAN - Le Bal des Falaises

Sat. 4/4 - 10:00 - 12:00, 14:00 - 17:30

Sun. 5/4 - 10:00 - 13:00, 14:00 - 16:00

Guillaume Chamanadjian - La Tour de garde & Une valse pour les grotesques

Jean-Laurent DEL SOCORRO - Les Amants du Ragnarök : Une Épopée de Mythes et de Destins

Sat. 4/4 - 10:00 - 11:00, 14:00 - 19:00

Sun. 5/4 - 10:00 - 12:00, 14:00 - 18:00

Jean-Laurent DEL SOCORRO

Josépha JUILLET - Terre des Ombres : La Nation des Bulles

Sat. 4/4 - 10:00 - 13:00, 14:00 - 19:00

Sun. 5/4 - 10:00 - 13:00, 14:00 - 18:00

Lands of Shadows, a novel in the theme of our 2026 edition: From Shadow to Light

Sat. 4/4 - 10:00 - 13:00, 14:00 - 19:00

Sun. 5/4 - 10:00 - 13:00

Julia COLIN - Passer la brume (novel, ecological fantasy)

Julia RICHARD - Les murmures de l'eau qui dort

Sat. 4/4 - 10:00 - 13:00, 14:00 - 18:00

Sun. 5/4 - 10:00 - 13:00

Julia RICHARD - Se méfier de l'eau qui dort (Éditions HSN)

Laurent GONTIER - Atlas Lovecraft : Voyage au cœur de l'univers cauchemardesque de H.P. Lovecraft

Sat. 4/4 - 10:00 - 13:00, 14:00 - 19:00

Sun. 5/4 - 10:00 - 13:00, 14:00 - 15:00

Laurent GONTIER

Laurent KLOETZER - Noon : Le Destructeur des Cieux

Sat. 4/4 - 10:00 - 12:00, 14:00 - 19:00

The return of Noon to Trolls & Légendes!

Léa MUNA - Contrer les brumes : L'Orgal, la cité nomade de Léa Muna

Sat. 4/4 - 10:00 - 13:00, 14:00 - 19:00

Sun. 5/4 - 10:00 - 13:00, 14:00 - 18:00

Léa MUNA

Maxime FONTAINE - Le Prince de Rün : Voyage dans les mystères de Zenaïde

Sat. 4/4 - 10:00 - 12:00, 14:00 - 16:00, 14:00 - 19:00

Sun. 5/4 - 10:00 - 13:00

Maxime FONTAINE

Sat. 4/4 - 10:00 - 12:00, 14:00 - 18:00

Sun. 5/4 - 10:00 - 12:00, 14:00 - 17:00

Nicolas Fructus - Illustrateur de fantasy primé (Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire) - Noon

Sat. 4/4 - 10:00 - 13:00, 14:00 - 19:00

Sun. 5/4 - 10:00 - 12:00, 14:00 - 15:00

Pome L. DESOMBRE

Sat. 4/4 - 10:00 - 13:00, 15:15 - 15:45, 16:00 - 19:00

Sun. 5/4 - 10:00 - 12:00, 13:00 - 15:00

Sally Green - Autrice britannique, créatrice de Half Bad

Siècle VAELBAN - Le Cri du Soleil : Une Épopée Céleste par Siècle Vaëlban

Sat. 4/4 - 10:00 - 13:00, 14:00 - 19:00

Sun. 5/4 - 10:00 - 13:00, 14:00 - 15:00

Siècle VAELBAN

Tashan MEHTA - La baleine rose et le jardin des étoiles

Sat. 4/4 - 10:00 - 13:00, 14:00 - 18:00

Sun. 5/4 - 10:00 - 13:00, 14:00 - 16:30

Tashan Mehta - Autrice de fantasy - Les Sœurs démentes d'Esi

Christelle DABOS - La Cité Miroir et la Fiancée de l'Hiver

Sat. 4/4 - 10:30 - 12:00, 14:30 - 15:00, 15:00 - 17:00

Christelle Dabos - Autrice de La Passe‑miroir

Sun. 5/4 - 10:00 - 13:00, 14:00 - 18:00

Stefan PLATTEAU

Editors and authors

Jean-Baptiste MONGE

VORTEX-CORNER - La Vengeresse au chapeau haut-de-forme

Vortex-Corner will welcome Olivier Ledroit at Trolls et Légendes!

ACTUSF Editions

Adèle LEFEUVRE

Aidan Fox Editions

Ambre Tarrier - Youth illustration, linocut, and dreamlike universe

Andréa DESLACS

ARGYLL

Arsenic et Boule de gomme

AU LOUP Editions

Banquises et Comètes

Black Rabbit Editions

Bleuts Rituhëll - L'ombre mystique de la déesse aux lanternes et aux cornes de cerf

Bleuts (Rituhëll) - A fantasy universe of love, magic, and drama

Catherine LOISEAU

CHANE

Cléo MONSELOIS

Célia KRÉAKUPLA

Edition Les mondes flottants

Edition Oneiroi

Editions Hikaya

Elisabeth GUILLOT - Costume coloré et élégant avec un chapeau steampunk original.

Elisabeth Guillot - Science fiction, fantasy, and fantastic novels and cosplay

Emma BARRY

Eva DE KERLAN - Élégance intemporelle : un portrait féminin captivant en bleu nuit

Eva de Kerlan and Mamba Mask

Evasion éditions

FAUTE DE FRAPPE Editions

GIL-DKLOGUE

Gwendal LEMERCIER

Hatchy-Bridy

Hélène LENOBLE - L'élégance des contrastes : Vie et Mort en Art Visuel

Hélène Lenoble - Fantasy Illustrator

Jenny Miki

L'ARCHE DES SONGES

L'HOMME SANS NOM Editions

Laura ESQUINE

LE CERF NOIR

Le héron d'argent - Salon du livre : un univers enchanté d'œuvres littéraires et de créations artistiques

Le Héron d'Argent - Editions of collectible and fine Francophone books

Le terrier de Yumë

. - Cassandra, passeuse d'âmes : Entre secrets et destin dans un monde fantastique

Les oiselles oniriques

LES TROIS NORNES

. - Livres alignés: festival de couvertures sur fond rose

Les Éditions Callidor & Aux forges de Vulcain reunited at Trolls & Légendes 2026

Linu_art

LIVRE'S Editions

L'encre chimérique - L'univers enchanteur d'Alexandra SZYMANSKI : L’encre chimérique

L'Encre chimérique - Illustrations in ink on old pages and fantastic universes

Marylin WEYL

MAZ EDITIONS - Panneau jaune rétro : Bienvenue dans un comté

Mathieu Coudray de nouveau à Trolls et Légendes

Guillaume Et Rémi ALBIN ET HOFFMANN - Shpunk Runner 2080 : Aventures futuristes et humour décalé

Maîstre Guillaume Albin et de sieur Rémi Hoffmann

. - Un personnage animé en action dans la main d'un artiste perplexe et amusé.

Morgan the Slug

Mortale King - Marché d'art : illustrations et autocollants créatifs à découvrir

Mortale Lethe & Chên King

MUSE Editions

Aurélien Et Olivia NEIL_FSSQ ET TABOLI1308 - Art Fantastique : Créations Étranges et Envoûtantes au Salon des Arts Visuels

Neil_fssq and Taboli1308

Pyel Inc.

R.G EYBENS

RinzArt

S.C BOYER

SLEEKIT

Sowi Illustration

Suhi Stev

Thory TALE

ToxiPixie

Vanessa ALTEMEYER