Next year, Havana | They announced the city in …

The Cuban historian Eusebio Leal Splenger wrote that Havana, the next city invited to the 46th International Book Fair of Buenos Aires in 2020, "is real because it exists and wonderful because of the characteristics of its inhabitants, its architecture, its history … It's the city of music, poetry, circles of thought … it's the city of masters, literature told by Alejo Carpentier ". Tatiana Viera Hernández, Vice President of the Provincial Assembly of Havana People's Power, thanked the invitation "to have accompanied us at a time when others were blocking us unhealthily and unjustly" . During the transfer of cities, María Teresa Carbano, president of the El Libro Foundation, said goodbye to Barcelona, ​​the city invited to this edition, with a "see you soon". "Every city is an opportunity to exchange culture, music, books, in addition to relationships that can be established to make co-publications and book translations," Carbano said.

Marta Clari, director of the Institute of Culture of Barcelona City Hall, spoke of the responsibility and commitment to be in "a fair that lasts for several days and that lasts intensely". The idea of ​​the Catalan delegation was to establish a dialogue between writers and artists from here and elsewhere. Clari, who presented Viera Hernández with a copy of Barcelonas by Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, expressed his pleasure at seeing the next capital, Cuba, being the capital of Cuba, a city with which Barcelona has forged historic ties. Ana María Cabanellas, Head of International Institutional Relations of the El Libro Foundation, acknowledged that Havana is "a very rich and very expensive city to me" and stated that two years ago, they had started negotiations in view of the invitation. "I know the literary production, the scientific and technical production, his poetry, it's very important what they will bring us in the artistic field, in the shows and with their music, they will give us much more than we expect, "predicted Cabanellas.