Barcelona, ​​queen of money: protagonist of the upcoming Buenos Aires Book Fair – 18/02/2019

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All the charm and uniqueness of the bustling city of Barcelona will land at the 45th International Book Fair in Buenos Aires, with an intense activity program and guest writers paying special attention to the emerging emerging voices of the city. Because the delegation of the 2019 City of Honor, which holds the position of Montevideo, will have a total of 78 guests, including 54 authors, 14 artists and a program of 120 activities but it is characterized by remarkable absences: Enrique Vila-Matas, Alberto Mendoza, the national poet Joan Marguerite, Juan Marsé, Javier Cercas or Quim Monzó, for more or less personal reasons, will not be part of the delegation.

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Among the confirmed, they are counted Horacio Altuna, Carlos Zanón, Héctor Lozano, Paula Bonet, Maite Carranza, Flavia Company, Edgardo Dobry, Joan Doménec and Manuel Forcano. And also Axén Xavi, Jose Badal, Rocio Bonilla, Najat El Hachimi, Oriol Canosa, Teresa Colom, Jaume Copons, Laura Fernandez, Marta Escudero, Laura Fernandez and Jaume Ponto, among others. The screenwriter and screenwriter of Merl, from the series "Merlí", Manuel Lozano, will also be in Buenos Aires and, because of the popularity of the series, will certainly be one of the most compelling figures.

This was confirmed at a press conference on Monday 18 noon in an elegant neo-Gothic hall in the city of Barcelona, ​​attended by Mayor Ada Colau, Secretary of Culture Joan Subirats, and Argentina consul, Alejandro E. Alonso. Sainz, among the authorities. Colau stressed that "Barcelona is an open city and that literature is one of the most powerful pillars of our identity, as well as a very unique editorial power, in two languages".

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The list of authors in alphabetical order, without hierarchy, was little mentioned. This list was presented to the press during the conference in Catalan. Javier Pérez Andújar, published in Argentina by Tusquets, the remarkable illustrator Paula Bonet, the philosopher and essayist Marina Garcés, writers who write in Catalan, Catalan writing in Spanish for the generous world market with the promises of the crowd and Argentinean resident in Barcelona, ​​converted into an attractive cosmopolitan city.

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But they are joined by others from the Balearic Islands, the Valencian community and Andorra, as a sample of "Catalan literature as a whole and the link of all these other language territories. Catalan with the literary capital ". Any form a heterogeneous corpus that invites to make conjectures (Is Barcelona the guest or Catalan culture, as at the Frankfurt Fair 2018, where there was not a single person writing in Spanish?) And speaks of tensions as the "Catalan case" also raises in cultural areas. Almost like a replica of those that vernacular politics has in the opening speeches of the Book Fair.

The 10,459 kilometers that separate the two cities will be represented in a particular program of activities: in each event with an author, illustrator and artist representing Barcelona, ​​there will be one from Buenos Aires. Joseph Pedrals and Edgardo Dobry will take part, for example, in the International Festival of Poetry. For three weeks, On the 200 m2 booth that the city will have at the fair, there will be an offer of books with 700 titles and 10,000 copies, in a bookstore managed by Cuspide and which, once the event is over, will be given to the Casal de Catalunya of Buenos Aires and to the library network of Buenos Aires. The stand contains an auditorium with audiovisual programming of a literary nature.

For the night of the fair, the day the entry is free and free, is scheduled an open-air concert by Catalan singer Silvia Pérez Cruz, whose repertoire includes intense versions of poems by Federico García Lorca and Miguel Hernández, in addition to a recreation to scale and with roses included in the San Jordi Festival, the Book Day, a great street party unique in the world, with the municipal government.

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"Institutions are important and must lay the foundation for intercultural exchange, but the bottom line is people, each of us, and shared moments," said Iolanda Batallé, director of the organization. Ramón Llul Institute, organizer of the event at the City Council and the Generalitat de Catalunya.

Barcelona is presented in Buenos Aires under the slogan "Barcelona, ​​literary city" and its realization is inspired by that of the UNESCO City of Literature, title that Barcelona owes to the cradle of publishing.

This city, through Carmen Balcells, became the Latin American literary factory of the twentieth century that cooked the famous boom, taking over the rights of the authors of which they could not contain the country of origin. The military dictatorship of 1976 led to the exodus to Barcelona of writers and intellectuals who found there the opportunity to publish and live the end of the Spanish dictatorship, a boiling social and political moment. The crisis of 2001 favored a second wave the one between the two cities counts Nora Catelli, Edgardo Dobry and Matías Néspolo, among the Argentine participants.

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"The crossed exiles are sad and painful moments, because to leave the country makes you carry a load of melancholy, then this time we will celebrate the richness which is the sediment of this first difficult and painful moment, the traits of the culture They left in each country those who had moved, "said Teresa Carballo, director of The Book Foundation, at the press conference. She herself moved with her family to Barcelona in 1982, when the Falklands war broke out. he lived "a family and professional life". "We take for granted the remarkable role Barcelona will play," she said confidently. "Both cities are nice and we are heading towards an event that will be successful and transcendent"

In the perimeter of the fair, the delegation will bring two exhibitions. "Visit Barcelona in 32 illustrations" is a graphic sample of the emblematic places of the city through its creative illustrators but exclusively works published in books. All illustrators will also participate in Graffiti in the streets of Buenos Aires. And Catalan literature in the world, about the contribution to universal literature. In the Larreta Porteño Museum, "Librería Catalónia, Editorial Sudamericana and editorial Edhasa, books come and go", reviews the intense relations between publishers and booksellers.

It will also be possible to organize business meetings aimed at promoting the translation of Catalan authors and co-publishing with independent publishers on both sides of the ocean, as well as to improve the mechanisms of distribution of Catalan publishers. The theater will have a series of performative events, including the playwright and writer Marc Caellas, "The Belly of Writers", with reflections on what they eat, drink and ingest the authors and how it influences their writing. The couples of Carlos Zanón and Fernanda García Lao are confirmed. While activities are defined, including FC Barcelona, ​​Buenos Aires is preparing to receive an open and unique culture, which is the cosmopolitan magnet of literary life.

Edited: V.A.

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