The book fair in Havana/Cuba is a highlight for all literature fans every year. The range of offer reading is varied. The book fair in Havana/Cuba is a highlight for all literature fans every year. The range of offer reading is varied. Of children’s books about novels up to the political Dissertatiion is all represented.
Authors from many countries gather for this event. the fair of the 6th to 19th February takes place in 2012. Many tour operators travel with much program run the book fair offer complete Cuba flights or as a the Eschweiler tour operator SoliArenas. In addition to the main exhibition centre on the historic fortress of San Carlos de La Cabana the Cuba Pavilion and various cultural facilities of capital invite back visitors. After the erooffnung in the last year the image in the West of the country and in Central Cuba repeated itself. Readers looking for a specific book title, dialogues with authors, lectures on literary subjects, ideas about new releases: so reached the 20.
International book fair of Sancti Spiritus, Cienfuegos, Villa Clara, Matanzas, Mayabeque, Artemisa, Pinar del Rio and the Isle of youth. About the peculiarities of such an event Politburo member and Minister of culture Abel Prieto in Pinar del Rio said: “our book fair is not a room that pays homage to the market. The book is not seen as a commodity, but as a supporting element of transcendental values for the people.” Over 200,000 copies of about 3,000 titles, of which about 400 new releases, have been deployed in Pinar del Rio. “Can the events that constitute a feast for the entire population, as it happens here, count on one hand”, said the Minister of culture on the opening of the book fair in the capital of the Western Province. In Villa Clara began from the first day to make the book fair as a large-scale cultural event. Over 30% of the books are intended for children and young people. A novelty is that the district cities of Remedios, Ranchuelo, encrucijada, Santo Domingo, Manicaragua and Cifuentes be included. Two “Bibliobusse” bring the culture event in these areas. To highlight the presence of the sociologist Fernando Martinez Heredia, the book fair, together with the narrator and journalist Jaime Sarusky, is dedicated was in Santa Clara. In Cienfuegos thanked the public for the possibility of opinion exchange with the poets Virgilio Lopez of Lemus and Jesus David Curbelo and the editor Fernando Carr Paruas, which continues the work of Jose Zacarias Tallet in defence of the Spanish language.