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Hundred Guests Confirm Attendance to Cuban Int’l Book Fair
HAVANA, Cuba, Feb 3 (acn) As
the 21st International Book Fair, Cuba 2012, draws near,
more than 200 guests from 40 countries have confirmed their
participation at the event scheduled to begin February 9 in
Havana, to be expanded later to the rest of the island.
The complex
cultural mosaic that is the Caribbean, to which the literary
fiesta will be dedicated, will be widely represented at the
event,
according to the president of the Cuban Book Institute,
Zuleica Romay.
Romay said national publishing houses have 46 books about
themes related
to the Caribbean ready for the fair, Granma reported.
Among writers from the region who will travel to Havana for
the event are
Barbadians Sir Hilary Beckles and Esther Phillips; Haitian
Suzy Castor;
Chiqui Vicioso from the Dominican Republic and Norman
Girvan, from
Jamaica, just to mention a few.
There will be intellectuals from outside the region, among
them Mexican
writer Sergio Pitol (Cervantes 2005 Prize winner),
Argentinean Miguel
Bonasso, Spanish-French journalist Ignacio Ramonet and
Brazilian
theologian Frei Betto.
The Caribbean Forum, to take place at Casa de las Americas;
the Marti
colloquium, at the Jose Marti Studies Center; the Meeting of
historians,
at Casa del Alba Cultural, of Librarians, at the National
Library, and of
young writers, at the Dulce Maria Loynaz Cultural Center
will be some of
the theoretical forums organized for this year’s Fair, in
which there will
be more than 120 exhibitors, 65 of them from abroad.
Two specialized colloquiums will be presided over by Social
Sciences and
Literature National Prize winners Zoila Lapique and Ambrosio
Fornet, to
who the Fair is dedicated.
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