Arturo Pérez-Reverte, Rosa Montero and Miguel Bosé, among the Spanish participants in the 36th edition of the International Book Fair organized by the Mexican city
The writers Irene Vallejo, Arturo Pérez-Reverte and Rosa Montero, as well as the singer Miguel Bosé are some of the Spanish participants in the Guadalajara International Book Fair (FIL), which celebrates its 36th edition with the challenge of readers and the presence of 130 Spanish publishers and settings. At the opening of the competition, Vallejo encouraged to revisit the classics “with a critical and new perspective” that allows “understanding the reasons why some cultures have committed barbaric acts”.
The author of ‘The infinite in a reed’ confirmed that it is time to “converse” with certain works in order to understand where certain ideas that are still prevalent in the world come from. He wants that by rereading the classics with that more critical and closer look, “we can take them off the pedestal and talk to them, aware of the barbaric aspects of those cultures, such as imperialism, the cult of war, the treatment of women,” he said. He suggests putting aside “the halo of idealization” that some books have had for decades to delve into the historical realities and the “profound contradictions” in which they are written.
Vallejo (Zaragoza, 1979) is the winner of the IX Pedro Henríquez Ureña International Essay Prize, awarded by the Mexican Academy of Language. An award that he receives “with special affection” because he bears the name, together with Alfonso Reyes, of one of the promoters of education and humanism in Latin America.
The author is one of the special guests of the FIL where she will present her acclaimed essay, translated into more than twenty languages. He also receives the Carlos Fuentes Medal and opens the Literary Room together with the Argentine writer Alberto Manguel who also receives the Tribute to the Bibliophile from the fair.
Arturo Pérez-Reverte speaks on FIL about his new novel ‘Revolución’, set in Villa and Zapata’s Mexico on fire, while Miguel Bosé presents his book ‘Secret history of my best songs’. The Cuban Leonardo Padura presents ‘Decent People’, the new part of his inspector Mario Conde, and the historian Enrique Krauze ‘Spinoza in Parque México’. The ‘cervantes’ Elena Poniatowska and Sergio Ramírez, and aouras such as Cristina Rivera-Garza, Gioconda Belli, Élmer Mendoza, Juan Villoro, the Swiss Joël Dicker or the Syrian poet Adonis, will not miss their appointment with the readers.
With the presentation of the FIL Prize for Literature in Romance Languages 2022 to the Romanian Mircea Cartarescu and the Arab Emirate of Sharjah as the guest of honor, the fair kicked off on Saturday with activities that will last until December 4, offering 400,000 titles from 1,500 publishers from 34 countries deployed on 43,000 square meters of the Expo Guadalajara convention center. The FIL expects to bring together 800,000 people around 620 book presentations, 3,000 literary, academic and scientific activities and the help of 600 authors from 45 countries.
The Federation of Publishers Guilds of Spain (FGEE) will bring together 51 companies and institutions that will be present on the two stands it will have. To this will be added another 84 publishers in their own stands or those of other institutions, including the Government of Catalonia, the Euskadi Publishers Guild and Xunta de Galicia, as well as Ibero-American distributors. Everyone will show their news, make contacts and stimulate business opportunities.
The Spanish publishing house, so present at the FIL, moves more than 4,000 million euros a year and provides direct and indirect employment to more than 30,000 people. The 800 FGEE grouped publishers represent nearly 97% of the industry’s revenue and published more than 198 million copies and more than 79,000 titles in paper and digital formats by 2021.
Source: La Verdad
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