The Book Fair is back with a big appeal

“It is good to walk between the books”, Could we hear in one of the corridors when the eighth edition of the International Book Fair “Marcelo Martín Berbel”.

The phrase uttered by a young man in his twenties, who was carrying a bag where he could glimpse some purchased books, condenses the feelings of those who have come to the National Museum of Fine Arts. A feeling that speaks volumes about the need to connect with something from this normal life that we had before the pandemic.

During the inauguration, the mayor Mariano Gaido underlined that it is “a very important event” for Neuquén “so that we value the culture, the writers, with a free methodology so that everyone can there to access “. He also called on young people to come together because “education breeds freedom and freedom, like life, is the most important tool we have”.

The Municipality of Neuquén estimates that more than 100,000 people will visit the fair and attend the lectures and book presentations that will take place until Sunday.

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A few hours before the official opening, the corridors and stands welcomed students from more than 20 primary and secondary schools, as well as children from kindergartens.

During the tour of municipal and provincial authorities, after the opening of the fair, Governor Omar Gutiérrez stopped at the Banda de Editoras stand. “The governor was interested in a braille book that provides a cover to read the images through the textures,” said the stand manager.

While the young students took to the stand of the Hôtel de las Ideas, a publishing cooperative that was created in 2013, enthusiastic about some comics and graphic novels by national and classic comic book authors; the little ones were enthusiastic about the covers of children’s books or the wooden educational games by Pipikuku made by Esteban Siciliano and Agustina Terrada, young entrepreneurs from Neuquén who have been making these creations for boys for more than a decade.

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The Legislative Assembly booth also brought together those who visited the fair, offering as they registered as new digital library users (BIDI) They will be able to participate in a raffle for an ebook where there will be more than twenty winners. “We wanted to bring the Legislative Assembly’s proposals to all citizens in a modern and interactive way, to continue building an open and closed legislature,” said Lieutenant Governor and Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies, Marcos Koopmann.

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Mothers or fathers with their children or entire families began to fill the aisles of the fair, going around the stands and seeing the promotions offered by booksellers and publishers, as in the case of Terra Libros, which offered literary classics at 300 pesos.

A Plottier teacher comes out of the fair with a copy of The stories of Don Manuel or Felipe Pigna imagine what would have written Manuel Belgrano if he had wanted to tell his life story to the boys and girls of future generations. “I love Pigna and hope to be able to hear it on Sunday,” says the teacher who shows Gabriel García Marquez’s Story of a Shipwreck, which will be intended for her two teenage daughters.

Argentina’s historical novel has its place at the fair

The auditorium of the National Museum of Fine Arts will bring together this Friday at 8:00 p.m. two of today’s most important Argentine writers who will present their new books.

Florence canale and Gabriela Saïdon, will share the stage to present their books to the public of Neuquén A fisherman. Camila O’Gorman’s passion and The Queen. Manuel Belgrano’s big dream, respectively.

In dialogue with LMNeuquén Canale anticipated that his book on the love story of Camila O’Gorman, brought up under the social and religious mandates in force at the time, and Father Ladislao Gutiérrez, “is the story of a forbidden love and especially for the historical moment that this event took place in the time of Juan Manuel de Rosas ”.

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He considered that this relationship “It is the most thunderous Creole tragedy of the 19th century and perhaps in our national history.”

Canale has become a leading author in the genre of historical novel that tells the story of the intimacy of famous men and women from Argentina’s past. She is the author of Blood and desire. The passion of Juan Manuel de Rosas and Encarnación Ezcurra, Savage. Urquiza and her wives, among others.

For his part, Saïdon in The Queen He turned to fiction to wonder what would have happened if the project of Manuel Belgrano, the creator of the flag, had been realized and an Inca monarchy ruled in South America and the monarch was a woman. The narrator traveled to Cusco and Lima where she interviewed specialists on the subject of the Tupac Amaru rebellion and historians and anthropologists. Saïdon maintains that “Belgrano had a feminist side before its time.”

Other proposals

The battles of the future It’s called the book they will present Augusto and Mateo Salvatto, creator of the Háblalo application. It will be at 4 pm in the Auditorium of the MNBA.

An hour later, the musician Javier Malosetti it will offer a musical clinic and at 9:30 pm it will offer a recital.

America’s writing This is the travel diary through Latin America which will be presented to 20 in the Auditorium libre du livre by the brothers Martín and Ezequiel Díaz Colodrero and Bruno Calmels.

Paula Frankel will provide a character creation workshop for children and the general public at 15 in the Auditorium of the MNBA.