Chennai International Book Fair 2026 attracts delegates from 102 countries

Key Highlights

• At its inception in 2023, the CBIF had participation from 24 countries, which grew to 40 in 2024 and 64 in 2025.
• Over 2,000 Memoranda of Understanding (MoU) have been signed at the CIBF, getting the works of more than 200 Indian authors translated to over 50 international languages, the speakers added.
• In her keynote, Kanimozhi Karunanidhi, DMK parliamentary party leader, said translated works opened doors into the lives, struggles, politics, and dreams of the people of a particular land.
• Today, as barriers are being put up in the name of religion, race, caste, it is literature that has the power to break them down.
• Anbil Mahesh Poyyamozhi, Tamil Nadu School Education Minister, said the CIBF was a “structured marketplace where publishers, agents, translators engage with clarity and intent”.