The city of Holguin is getting ready for the celebration of the 32nd International Book Fair, from March 20 to 24, with 609 titles and more than 400,000 copies available for readers, according to what was announced today at a press conference.
As in its Havana version, the local event will have Brazil as guest of honor and will pay tribute to intellectuals Isabel Monal Rodriguez and Francisco Lopez Sacha.
Along with them, the multilaureate writer from Holguin Emerio Medina, winner of the Julio Cortázar 2023 Ibero-American Short Story Award, the university seal Conciencia Ediciones on its tenth anniversary and the Alex Urquiola Provincial Public Library, on its 65th anniversary, will also receive recognition.
Among the main spaces of the Book Fair in Holguin are “La hora tercia”, “La hora martiana”, “Abrirse las constelaciones” of Ediciones La Luz, “Cruce de caminos” of Ediciones Holguin, “Sala José Luciano Franco” of the Casa de los Historiadores, “Cuba en Iberoamérica, la isla posible” of the Casa de Iberoamérica, as well as the pavilions of Social Sciences, Informatics, University, Children, among others.
Special attention deserves the Professional Program, whose panels, at the headquarters of Ediciones Holguin, will deal with the splendor of the great Brazilian literature, the contributions of the narrators Francisco Lopez Sacha and Emerio Medina to the contemporary Cuban literature, the work Franz Kafka a hundred years after his death and the Holguin literature in the Cuban sphere.
The official opening of the Fair is announced for the afternoon of Wednesday, March 20, in front of the Alex Urquiola Library, after which the Great Bookstore will be inaugurated, which as every year will be located in the main nave of the Plaza de La Marqueta Cultural Center.
Under the slogan “Reading is building identity”, the largest literary festival in the country returns to Holguin to promote reading as a way to form individual and collective conscience and authentic critical thinking.
With information by Aniel Santiesteban García
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