In the FIL of Guadalajara
Arturo Pérez-Reverte, Rosa Montero and Miguel Bosé, among the Spanish participants in the 36th edition of the International Book Fair hosted by the Mexican city
The writers Irene Vallejo, Arturo Pérez-Reverte and Rosa Montero, as well as the singer Miguel Bosé are some of the Spanish participants in the Guadalajara International Book Fair (FIL), which celebrates its 36th edition with the challenge of recovering readers and presence of 130 Spanish publishers and institutions. Vallejo encouraged at the opening of the contest to revisit the classics “with a critical and new look” that allows “to understand the reasons why some cultures committed barbaric acts.”
The author of ‘The infinite in a reed’ affirmed that it is time to “converse” with certain works to understand where certain ideas that still prevail in the world come from. He wants that by rereading the classics with that more critical and closer look, “we can take them off the pedestal and talk with them, being aware of the barbaric aspects of those cultures, such as imperialism, the cult of war, the treatment of women,” he said. She proposes putting aside “the halo of idealization” that some books have had for decades to delve into historical reality and the “deep contradictions” in which they were written.
Vallejo (Zaragoza, 1979) has been the winner of the IX Pedro Henríquez Ureña International Essay Prize awarded by the Mexican Academy of Language. An award that she receives “with special affection” for bearing the name of one of the promoters of education and humanism in Latin America along with Alfonso Reyes.
Award Winning
The author is one of the special guests of the FIL where she will present her praised essay, translated into more than twenty languages. She will also receive the Carlos Fuentes medal and will open the Literary Salon together with the Argentine writer Alberto Manguel who will also receive the Tribute to the Bibliophile of the fair.
Arturo Pérez-Reverte will speak at FIL about his new novel ‘Revolución’, set in Villa and Zapata’s Mexico on fire, while Miguel Bosé will present his book ‘Secret history of my best songs’. The Cuban Leonardo Padura presents ‘Decent People’, the new installment of his inspector Mario Conde, and the historian Enrique Krauze ‘Spinoza in Parque México’. The ‘cervantes’ Elena Poniatowska and Sergio Ramírez, and aouras such as Cristina Rivera-Garza, Gioconda Belli, Élmer Mendoza, Juan Villoro, the Swiss Joël Dicker or the Syrian poet Adonis, will not miss their appointment with the readers.
With the delivery of the FIL Prize for Literature in Romance Languages 2022 to the Romanian Mircea Cartarescu and the Arab emirate Sharjah as Guest of Honor, the fair began activities on Saturday that will last until December 4 with an offer of 400,000 titles from 1,500 publishers from 34 countries deployed in 43,000 square meters of the Expo Guadalajara convention center. The FIL expects to bring together 800,000 people around 620 book presentations, 3,000 literary, academic and scientific activities and the assistance of 600 authors from 45 countries.
powerful industry
The Federation of Publishers Guilds of Spain (FGEE) will bring together 51 companies and institutions that will be present at the two stands it will have. To these will be added another 84 publishing labels in their own stands or those of other institutions, among which are the Government of Catalonia, the Euskadi Publishers Guild and Xunta de Galicia, as well as Ibero-American distributors. Everyone will showcase their news, make connections, and boost business opportunities.
The Spanish publishing industry, so present at the FIL, moves more than 4,000 million euros per year and provides direct and indirect employment to more than 30,000 people. The 800 FGEE grouped publishing companies represent close to 97% of the sector’s turnover and throughout 2021 they published more than 198 million copies and more than 79,000 titles in paper and digital formats.
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