Katzenbach, Pérez-Reverte, Merlí, plus: all the stars of the book fair – 15/03/2019

Everything is happening for the beginning of the Book Fair of Buenos Aires, which will be held from April 25 to May 13 in La Rural.

This week, Fundación El Libro announced who will deliver the inaugural speech: it will be the feminist anthropologist Rita Segatowhich guarantees a powerful and controversial departure.

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The intensity will not drop in the following days: the Spanish Rosa Montero, known and loved in the country, will arrive in Buenos Aires, as will the successful American writer John Katzenbach, author of The psychobadyst.

Another author will be the Spanish Arturo Pérez-Reverte, member of the Royal Spanish Academy, prolific and sharp Twitter, recently published. Hard dogs do not dance.

Nicaragua Sergio Ramírezwho was sworn in Clarín Novel Award, will also be of the game, as well as his compatriot Gioconda Belli and the Peruvian Alfredo Bryce Echenique, already historic.

Laurence Debray will arrive with the biography of her father Régis, theoretician of the Revolution and companion of Che Guevara in Bolivia, for a while.

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The other important names are those of Santiago Posteguillo, Gael Faye, Sandro Veronelli, Carlos Fonseca, Anselm Grun, Jul (draftsman of lucky Luke since 2016).

The youth fair

Year by year, youth participation in the show is increasing and becoming more important. Several publishers even double their participation, with special stands for young people.

Victoria Schwab, Mackenzi Lee and Sara Búho are among the juveniles.

There will be an international bibliobus meeting, which will include, among others, Mexicans Claudia Ramírez and Alberto Villarreal.

Barcelona

The city of Barcelona is the special guest of this fair and is preparing to hit hard. They will have a stand of 200 square meters in the yellow flag and will gather 60 authors.

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Among them, Héctor Lozano (creator of the series) Merli), Carlos Zanón (author of a crime novel, winner of the Hammet Prize in 2015), the young Jordi Sierra i Fabra, Horacio Altuna (Argentinian but living in Catalonia since 1980) and illustrator Paula Bonet.

Sexual diversity

And the Fair will repeat a success of 2018, the stand dedicated to badual diversity. The stand is called Pride and Prejudice and seeks, informs the El Libro Foundation, "to gather and promote without censorship all the plural and the rich of our culture" .- It owns a library specialized in the questions of kind, the cultures of dissent baduality and feminisms, in addition to an audience.

Book Fair, the largest cultural event in the country. Ready, ready …

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