The expectations regarding this return “are the best, we expect a great Book Fair for the entire sector,” said Juan Manuel Pampín, deputy director of the Argentine Book Chamber (CAL) and editor of Corregidor. The Fair is a point of reference in our year, the whole sector lives thinking about it”. “Mixed feelings is what can define these days prior to the start of the Book Fair at times”, added Leonora Djament, editor of Eterna Cadencia, who will share the classic stand of Los Siete Logos in the Yellow Pavilion, together with the independent labels Adriana Hidalgo, Beatriz Viterbo, Black Box, Creature, Eternal Cadence, Katz and Mardulce. “We are happy and excited about everything that this return means in symbolic and economic terms and also because it means that the pandemic is ending. All this is cause for celebration and we will be there with a mask but face to face to continue recovering meetings and conversations.” But at the same time, she warns, “the publishing situation is very complex because the inflationary scenario that we live in our country is compounded by an even greater increase in the industrial costs of the book. At the same time, the supply of paper is still not fully standardized, which makes it very difficult to plan. Hopefully we can find tools that help us resolve this situation even partially.”
CAL will be present, “as always -says Pampín-, from its institutional stand where it will bring together around 40 small publishers and partners”, and, on the other hand, “this year it will present the Internationalization of the Argentine Book that is beginning to be carried out through an agreement with the Foreign Ministry, which will allow a great diffusion for small and medium-sized publishers that are not always those that participate in international fairs. The Fair will maintain a hybrid format of presences through streaming or in connection with writers who will be in other parts of the world talking with writers in a room and in front of the public, which can be transmitted and followed by people from any part of the country and the world. Vargas Llosa has planned two activities at the Fair; On Sunday, May 8 at 6:30 p.m., he will present his new book “La mirada quieta” in the José Hernández room, while two days before, on Friday 6, he will participate in a talk with María Rosa Lojo, Alejandro Roemmers and Luis Alberto de Cuenca. .
The federal presence will be strong. Córdoba, Santa Fe, Salta, Jujuy, Corrientes and Santa Cruz will be some of the provinces that will present their own stands, while others such as Chubut and Neuquén will participate through the Ente Cultural Patagonia with the delivery of prizes to the winners of the short story contest ” 40 years of the Malvinas deed: Patagonia counts”.
The province of Buenos Aires returns this year to the Fair at the Pabellón Ocre with a stand to showcase Buenos Aires publishers and authors.
Córdoba, will have its stand to “show its own production in conjunction with the different independent publishers, which are key in maintaining Cordoba’s literary production, as well as writers and editors who participate in the activities grid,” reported the Córdoba Agency Culture (ACC).
Within this framework, on April 30 Fernanda Pérez will present “Women: from the literary story to collective history”, on May 6 María Alejandra Oliver and María Del Carmen Márquez will carry out oral narration interventions with their own texts and those of great authors.
In Santa Fe, the Ministry of Culture summoned authors and publishers to participate with their productions in the 46-square-meter stand that the province will set up. Among the outstanding activities, on Saturday, May 14, “Things have movement. 40 years of Rosario’s trova”, which four decades after the release of the album “Difficult times” by Juan Carlos Baglietto, Ediciones Santa Fe released this book that compiles profiles of its creators, Baglietto, Fito Páez, Adrián Abonizio, Jorge Fandermole, Silvina Garré, Rubén Goldín and Fabián Gallardo.
Source: Ambito
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