Mario Vargas Llosa will be the guest of honor of FIL 2018 | trends

Mario Vargas Llosa will be the guest of honor at the Lima International Book Fair in 2019, announced José Carlos Alvariño, President of the Peruvian Book Chamber (CPL)

"We want to pay tribute to great Peruvian novelist and thinker, to reflect through his wonderful literary work and essay on our destiny as a country of writers, publishers and readers," said Alvariño.

In this way, the largest book fair in Peru, breaks the trend to dedicate the event to the lyrics of other countries to focus it entirely on its most universal contemporary writer.

The president of the CPL, organizer of the FIL of Lima, affirmed that the presence of the famous novelist will be used to analyze the state and the health of the book in Peru.

In May, Vargas Llosa also confirmed that he will attend the fourth edition of the "Hay Festival". of Arequipa, which took place in November this year.

At the inauguration of the IDF 2018, the President of the Republic, Martín Vizcarra, was also present; Peruvian Minister of Culture Patricia Balbuena; the assistant deputy director of the Spanish book, reading and literatures of the Spanish Ministry of Culture and Sports, David García Rivas; the ambassador of Spain to Peru, Ernesto de Zulueta, and the Spanish writer Rosa Montero

FIL 2018 will open its doors from July 20 to August 5 at Parque de los Próceres, Jesús María. They will be more than 16,000 square meters that will have 160 exhibitors and through which will pass more than one hundred guests from twelve countries, almost half of them Spanish.

Spain – Country of Honor guest – who will have an open pavilion of 300 square meters, He attends FIL 2018 with a delegation of 47 authors where he will exhibit 500 titles, including Rosa Montero, Laura Freixas, Sergio del Molino , Marta Sanz, Ray Loriga, Jesus Marchamalo, Maria Arnal, Marcos Giralt Torrente, Luisge Martin and Jose Ovejero.

The fair, sponsored by the BBVA Continental Bank and the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (PUCP), will have some 900 cultural activities, including some at the Cultural Center of Spain in Lima.