📚 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.