The 38th Book Fair of Santiago with Peru kicks off as a guest of honor | Lights | Books

Peru was inaugurated today on the occasion of the 38th edition of the International Book Fair of Santiago (Filsa), which opened its doors from Friday to Friday. November 11 in the Chilean capital.

The Sona 2018, home to the traditional headquarters of the Mapocho Cultural Center, features a program of more than 500 activities and the participation of 70 foreign guests, confirmed Eduardo Castillo, president of the Chilean Chamber of Books, which organizes the program. ;event.

Regarding tributes, the program highlights the tributes paid to the poet Vicente Huidobro (1893-1948), one of the great poets of Chilean poetry, on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of his disappearance. January, and the writer Poli Delano (1936-2017), died last August

The guest country, Peru, will restore to the memory of Cesar Vallejo one of the main Representatives of Latin American Poetry of the Twentieth Century

For the first time, La Filsa will not have the presence of major publishers, such as Planeta and Penguin Random House, who preferred to organize a parallel event, decrypted by Eduardo Castillo. "This is a time when many cultural and literary activities take place, from Printemps du Livre to Port des Idées, there is a great movement of fairs and audiences and Filsa did not want to be the only case possible, "he said.

"The greater the number of spaces available in the city will be better for readers and writers," he added. As is the case every year, there are also book launches, tables, lectures, awards, concerts, plays, movies and activities for children on the program of the Filsa.

Peru, guest of honor, will be represented by about forty authors, among narrators, poets, historians and intellectuals, among whom stand out the last two laureates of the National Prize for Literature: Susanne Noltenius (2017) and Carlos Aguero (2018). [19659010] The narrator and promoter of the oral narrative Cucha del Águila, and writers such as Fernando Ampuero, Gabriela Wiener, Renato Cisneros Katya Adaui, María José Caro and Daniel Alarcón, among others, as well as the group Los Folklore Festival Cholos, who adorned the opening ceremony of the Fair.

The International Book Fair begins this Thursday. María José Caro, Katya Adaui and Renato Cisneros, three young authors who will participate, explain how to read their country.

Peruvian cinema will also host cinema, music, art and Creole cuisine, in an area of ​​600 square meters. . Due to an accident that cost him the fracture of some vertebrae, the writer Alfredo Bryce Echenique had to cancel his presence.