They announced who will be guests of the 45th International Book Fair "La Capitale de Mar del Plata

L & # 39; American John KatzenbachNicaraguan Gioconda Belli and French Laurence Debray are some of the international guests who will participate in the 45th International Book Fair of Buenos Aires, which will be held on the grounds of La Rural from April 25 to May 13.

The Spanish Arturo Pérez-Reverte are added to the list, Rosa Montero, Santiago Posteguillo Gómez, Carlos Zanón, Paula Bonet, the African Gael Faye, the Nicaraguans Carlos Fonseca and Sergio Ramírez, the German Anselm Grun, the Peruvian Bryce Echenique and Jul (Lucky Luke's caricaturist since 2016).

In this edition, the inaugural speech will be in charge of the Argentine anthropologist Rita Segato, one of the most influential thinkers of contemporary feminism.

"We are an international fair for the presence of these authors, for the twenty foreign stands known to the general public and for the general public. more and more book professionals that converge on professional days, "said María Teresa Carbano, president of the El Libro Foundation.

For his part, Oche Califa, cultural and institutional director of this agency, said that "for several years, the number of international guests exceeds one hundred, not counting the contribution of the guest city of honor and the figures of the juvenile mbad convocation ".

"We are proud to be able, even in a difficult environment, to maintain theactive in a cultural program which appeals to all readers of the public, "he added.

This year Barcelona will be the guest city of honor and will have a varied program that will include more than 60 Spanish writers, such as Héctor Lozano, creator of the Merlí series; Zanón, author of a detective story; juvenile author Jordi Sierra i Fabra; Horacio Altuna, Argentine illustrator based in Catalonia since 1980; and illustrator Paula Bonet.

In addition, during the Night of the Fair, on Saturday, April 27 from 8 pm, the doors of the public will be open to present the show of the Catalan artist Silvia Pérez Cruz.

As part of the cultural proposal, the dialogue of Latin American writers and the dialogue of Argentine writers will be reissued, where they will debate various topics, as well as the International Festival of Poetry, a clbadic space of poetic reading.

For the fifth consecutive year, will be held the International Meeting of Booksellers, with the participation of Claudia Ramírez and Alberto Villarreal, Mexico.

In addition, for the second year, the Book Fair will have Pride and prejudice, the space dedicated to badual and cultural diversity, which will have a library specializing in gender issues, cultures of badual dissent and feminisms, as well as an audience.