The audience will be able to interact with famous guests, important figures of the contemporary cultural scene, both from Romania and abroad. Among them are Junot Díaz (Pulitzer Prize winner and winner of numerous prestigious awards), Tracy Chevalier (author of the international publishing phenomenon "Girl with a Pearl Earring", with novels translated into over 45 languages), Michel Bussi (one of the most widely read contemporary French authors, with tens of millions of volumes sold and translated into over 35 languages), Cristian Mungiu (one of the most appreciated contemporary Romanian film directors and screenwriters). In an event dedicated to a special volume, which will be published by the Literary Museums Publishing House, 3 renowned Ukrainian writers, directly involved in the war in Ukraine, will gather: Olena Herasymiuk (poet, combat participant, paramedic, civic activist), Pavlo Matiușa (poet, prose writer, translator, captain in the Armed Forces of Ukraine), Serhii Demciuk (writer, journalist, soldier in the Second International Legion for the Defense of Ukraine).

FILIT will also host a stage of the CELA – Connecting Emerging Literary Artists. Writers Ajda Bračič (Slovenia) and Corinne Heyrman (Netherlands/Belgium) will dialogue on stage with their translators, Sergiu Lozinschi (Slovenian), Mădălina Balea and Andreea Bălteanu (Dutch). The Romanian translators will also be present at the festival: Jessica Bilcec (Ukrainian), Ilinca Gângă (Spanish), George Doru Ivan (Italian), Maria Lupescu (Bulgarian), Aleksandra Petrov (Serbian), Andrei Săndulescu (Czech), Oana-Andreea Stoe (Polish).