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 Personalities
from Forty Countries to Attend Cuba’s Int’l Book Fair
HAVANA, Cuba, Feb 2 (acn) More
than 200 foreign personalities from 40 countries invited to
the 21st International Book Fair of Havana —scheduled to
begin in the Cuban capital on February 9— have confirmed
their participation in this event that, as in previous
years, will also be hosted by cities across the Caribbean
nation.
During a press
conference in Havana on Thursday, the vice president of the
Cuban Book Institute (ICL), Edel Morales, said that 127
exhibitors from 27
countries will attend the event.
The list of personalities invited includes Argentinean
Miguel Bonasso,
Brazilian Frei Beto, Venezuelan Carmen Bohorquez, Mexican
Sergio Pitol,
Haitian Suzy Castor, Belgian Francoise Hutart, and Italian
Carlo Frabetti.
ICL president Zuleica Romay noted that the Fair this year
will be
dedicated to Cuban intellectuals Zoila Lapique and Ambrosio
Fornet.
She added that the cultural event will pay tribute to the
cultures of the
people of the Great Caribbean, “conceived as a mosaic of
differences
united by history,” which includes 14 insular states,
Mexico, six Central
American nations, and four of South America.
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