Each year this event turns into the center of Cuban artistic production for the diversity of books. The book fair far from falling into an annual routine revives the new awaited celebration.

 
No one ever gets bored or old with a book in hand and the wonderful world of knowledge and as said by Cuban National Hero Jose Marti: “Reading stimulates, enlightens, revives and it is like a breath of fresh air….”

The Book Fair, which follows the footsteps of the thinking of Jose Marti, held the second and third month of each year travels from west to east offering readers universal literature.

The current edition of the book fair, in addition to its cultural and sales success in Havana, which was held from February 10th to the 20th, also got a good start in the western and central provinces.

A literary fervor is underway in the eastern part of the island and will run until March 6th, with book lovers that have filled the streets.

This would be the 10th time that the event has reached the province of Guantanamo where some 40 areas will be prepared for book sales in addition to a variety of artistic/literary programs which includes conferences, round tables, films, exhibitions, concerts and theater and dance performances.

The literary breeze attracts over 500 titles and some 82 000 books which will be put to sale in the cities of Guantanamo and Baracoa and the people of Caimanera bordering the illegally occupied US Naval Base.

Among some of the figures that will be on hand are Historian and National Social Sciences Prize laureate Fernando Martinez Heredia, whom the fair is dedicated to, and narrator and Director of the Cuban Literature Publishing Housee Rogelio Riveron Morales.

The Jose Marti Park, Cuban Writers and Artists Association, the Hermanos Saiz Association, History House and several areas located in Pedro A.

Perez Street are some of the spaces reserved in the Villa del Guaso with the participation of the 2004 National Literature Prize, Jaime Sarusky Miller.

Books will also be available at education institutions like the University Center and other recently inaugurated centers. The book fair will be extended to the men and women’s penitentiaries in the territory, to children at the Pediatric Hospital and orphanage.

The organizing committee of the book fair in the region told the press that this year there is a good representation of children’s literature, novels, poems, narrative, short political and historic and scientific/technical.

There are over one dozen books written by prestigious local authors in
Guantanamo´s El Mar and Montaña Publishing House which celebrates its 9th
anniversary this year.

There are also new proposals, many already re edited that distinguish the first steps of the publishing house currently among the best in the country for its speed.

Among their first books is the Dictionary of Writers from Guantanamo, whose first edition, called then the Cemetery of the Living inaugurated the Villa del Guaso Editorial House, founded on August of 2000.