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The renowned Japanese author will be the protagonist of the International Book Fair of Quito 2018.
The Japanese writer Haruki Murakami will be the special guest of the International Book Fair 2018 (FIL Quito). That's what the director of the National Book and Reading Plan, Edgar Allan García, told the Andes Agency
"We have a special guest this year, the # Ecuador does not have the habit of having this type of guests in Bogota, with all the great things that it has been four years ago, and we 've got it. we had, it's Haruki Murakami, "García told the website.
In addition, the note indicates that the new bicentennial exhibition center will host the event scheduled for November, and the province of Esmeraldas will take up the post in Manabí as a guest. It would still be "confirming which country will be the guest of honor," reported Andes.
Projections
Last May, in a conversation with journalists from La Hora and El Telégrafo, Antonio Correa, director of FIL, said that one of the names that were considered the "main course" of the Fair was that of the author of "Kafka on the Shore", a fact that would now be a reality. On this occasion, he also mentioned that the participation of Jean-Marie Le Clézio, Geoff Dyer and Salman Rushdie was sought
"We had to be certain that a fair can be done with quality, based on an academic agenda an itinerary, it is not an improvised thing and that has criteria, "said teacher Correa at this time
He also stated that" we work online, we want focus on science because it would seem like it's an isolated universe of literature, art … We consider it important that science communicates with the young people, that a common thread be established, as a way of thinking as a daily fact. "
Planning
Correa, who had about three months to organize the FIL Quito 2017, said in this conversation that, although the hands of the clock played against the organization, still his criterion part of giving a conceptual axis to each fair edition
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has the FIL Quito.It will celebrate the eleventh. "We have evolved on the presence of women as editors, as as writers and as readers, with a significant presence. This, to give a conceptual transversal axis around the Fair, "he said.
He also spoke about independent publishers: "I am one of the advocates and promoters of independent publishers because of its importance," said Correa. I had to explain to the House of Books the importance of these publishers because they might introduce authors to the world that no other publisher would take risks. "
He said that in 2017 already several of them had been helped to collaborate in their catalog and that he has had several meetings with them and their badociation, and that they have been able to work with them. he hoped that this year more activities could be carried out together. (DVD)
New novel
° The new Japanese novel by Haruki Murakami's "The Death of the Commander" (1965) Book 1), with which he pays tribute to "The Great Gatsby", will arrive at Spanish bookstores on October 9, according to Tusquets Editores.Designed in two parts, the work places music and painting in his center, with "a mysterious painting reminiscent of Mozart's opera Don Giovanni", while addressing issues such as paternity, which until now the writer did not J & rsquo; The protagonist is a portrait painter named Tomohiko Amada, who will enter "a fascinating maze where drama episodes coexist ticks of the Second World War, theories about painting, an isolated house at the top of the mountains, strange wells used by ancient monks "
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