The Murcia Book Fair comes to an end today and breaks records

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Several presentations filled the capacity and some writers spent more than five hours signing their works on Paseo Alfonso X

The fifth edition of the Murcia Book Fair ends today – from 10 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. – which this year will have 60 stands and 40 exhibitors on Paseo Alfonso X el Sabio, bringing up to 700 national and international writers from a wide range of genres.

A week in which various activities were developed in the programming: including signing, presentations, conferences, workshops and storytelling. Jesús Boluda, director of the Murcia Book Fair, said yesterday that “the weekend has been very intense, more than 250 authors signed books for several hours.” For this reason, the organization is “very happy and satisfied with the response from the public”, says Boluda.

Expectations were set to match the success figures of the previous edition. And Monday morning they were over. “More than 100,000 people have passed through the booths to sign a book and have their picture taken with an author.”

For example, Boluda highlights the meeting last Friday between six of the most important romantic novelists nationally at the Archaeological Museum, where the auditorium was filled with a capacity of 200 people. “We put more chairs where we could, but people stayed out of the room,” says the successor of Asensio Piqueras with great satisfaction, starting from Paseo Alfonso X and surrounded by readers, writers and books.

Jorge Díaz, Antonio Mercero and Agustín Martínez, who sign under the pseudonym Carmen Mola, also visited the fair on Friday to present ‘Las madres’, their latest book starring Elena Blanco, of which they signed nearly 400 copies on the stand in LA TRUE . Another record was set by the young youtuber from Molina de Segura, Claudia Martínez, with her children’s novels [‘Los misterios de Clodett’ y ‘El mundo de Clodett’], on which more than 450 children were waiting with a book under their arms. The writer María Martínez, from Lorca, who writes romantic novels, “started drawing at 5 p.m. and finished at 10 p.m..”

Another of the workshops that Boluda takes out of the program is ‘Other ways of reading’, given by people from ONCE, where they learned to ‘read in braille or with a magnifying glass’. The presentation of Jaime Castillo Ortuño, who explained how he illustrated his book ‘Luna Arcoiris’, was also very well received.

Boluda indicates that, given the high demand for presentations, they have had to use three different spaces: the Archaeological Museum, the University of Murcia and the auditorium of the Royal Academy of Alfonso X, next to the event pavilion of the fair.

Until October 31, you can visit the exhibition ‘Andersen: A journey through Spain’ in the Regional Library, which commemorates the writer’s two trips to Spain. “The most important thing, and I pay close attention to that, is that all the people leave with books, they didn’t just come for a walk,” concludes Boluda.

Source: La Verdad

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