The Rights Area, the CONTEC Latin America meeting (organized together with the Frankfurt Fair), the Training and Benefits Program, and the Cycle “Views of the Publishing Industry” stand out.
Educational Activities – From Friday, April 28 to Saturday, May 13.
The Fair once again offers programs of excellence for educators: the International Conference on Education, which this year celebrates its 30th anniversary; the International Meeting of Oral Narrative; the Congress for the Promotion of Reading and the Book; and the International Forum for Science and Technology Education. As every year, Fundación El Libro also promotes the Isay Klasse Prize for Education Books. In addition, during every business day activities for educators are carried out in the Teaching Area.
Book Program % of Conabip – From Friday 5 to Sunday 7 May.
For the eighteenth time, this meeting is held with more than a thousand popular librarians from all over the country, who come to buy material with a 50% discount and thus update their bibliographic collection. A classic from the Buenos Aires Book Fair.
Official opening – Thursday, April 27, 6:00 p.m.
The opening ceremony of the Fair will be attended by government authorities and cultural personalities. The inaugural speech will be in charge of the Argentine writer Martin Kohanessayist, novelist, short story writer and university professor, winner of the Herralde Novel Prize (2007) and the Konex Prize (2014), among others.
International Poetry Festival– From Friday 28 to Sunday 30 April
This space has established itself as a true international meeting to honor poetry and share the passion for words. The list of poets includes names such as Prisca Agustoni (Switzerland/Brazil), Tilsa Otta (Peru), Leonardo de León (Uruguay), Rosabetty Muñoz (Chile), Pedro Eiras (Portugal), Mariano Peyrou (Spain), as well as the participation of guest poets from Neuquén, Entre Ríos, Córdoba, Santa Fe, Tucumán, Chubut and other Argentine provinces.
Dialogue of Writers of Argentina – From Wednesday, May 3 to Friday, May 5.
Argentine literature echoes new questions about our place in the world and our life in common: this ninth edition of the Dialogue of Writers of Argentina seeks to reflect these current trends. In the face of the increasingly powerful voices of the original peoples, new texts investigate this conflictive relationship with those who previously inhabited these lands. In the field of intimacy, family ties are under the magnifying glass while love is narrated without brakes in the era of diversity. And a new look at our fellow animals in the animal kingdom seems to be in tune with studies on animality and contemporary transspecies sensitivity. Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, Sylvia Iparraguirre, Marina Mariasch, Gloria Peirano, Mauro Libertella, Sonia Budassi, Marina Yaszczuk, Tamara Tenenbaum, Gabriela Saidón, among many more, participate.
Reading Marathon – Monday, May 8 from 6 to 10 p.m.
An unforgettable list of voices. This year, it will be dedicated to the reading of poems, texts and letters by the Chilean Gabriela Mistral. Graciela Borges, Guadalupe Marín, Laura Cukierman, Mempo Giardinelli, Teresa Parodi, Fernando Noy, Isha Escribano, Katja Alemann, Natalia Porta Lopez, Diego Di Vincenzo, Mariana Cincunegui, Claudia Aboaf, Irene Chiquiar Bauer, Alberto Paco Fernández de Rosa, Emilio will read. Comte, Eugenia Zicavo, Diego Paszkowski, Leo Sbaraglia, Yaki Setton, Mercedes Alvarez, Alejandro Tantanian, Julia Salzmann, Hilda Lizarazu, Marcelo Delgado, Magali Etchebarne, Fernán Mirás, and Diana Bellessi. It will take place in the José Hernández Room.
Dialogue of Writers of Latin America – From Saturday May 6 to Tuesday May 9.
In its tenth edition, the Dialogue of Latin American Writers echoes the concerns and problems that shake the world to discuss them from their regional perspective. If literature is performative, it can help us to address those aspects of reality that are uncomfortable for us, always from a creative, innovative and disruptive place. With the presence of Itamar Vieira Júnior (Brazil), Luis do Santos (Uruguay), Carla Guelfenbein (Chile), Fernanda Melchor (Mexico), Nona Fernández (Chile), Margarita García Robayo (Colombia), Katya Adaui (Peru), Jorge Consiglio (Argentina), among others and others.
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40 Dizzying Years Cycle – From Wednesday May 10 to Saturday May 13.
Four decades after the recovery of Democracy, this year we will have a special cycle that brings together different thinkers and writers. It is a meeting to reflect on this date in a plural dialogue of different disciplines, visions and generations.
Added to the cycle is a photographic exhibition co-organized by Fundación El Libro and ARGRA (Association of Photographic Reporters of the Argentine Republic), which covers these four decades of democracy. The exhibition “40 photos for 40 years” will receive the visitors of the Book Fair in the central tunnel, as a space to celebrate and reflect. The sample is a truthful testimony of the reality that crosses and defines us.
Fervor Cycle of Buenos Aires – Saturday April 29, Wednesday May 3 and Sunday May 7.
One hundred years have passed since the first book of Jorge Luis Borges and, for this anniversary, the Fair has prepared a meeting in which important international figures participate: translators, editors and specialists from different latitudes, among which stand out Valerie Miles, Annick Louis, Razu Alauddin (Bengali translator) and John Cruz Ruiz.
To complete this celebration, there will be an exhibition of photographs, originals and manuscripts in Pavilion 9.
New room at the Fair
Another important innovation is that this year a new Room will be inaugurated that bears the name of the sociologist and writer Horace Gonzalez, in the Ocher Pavilion. In addition, for the first time the opening ceremony -which will be broadcast live via streaming through the YouTube channel of the Book Fair- will have simultaneous interpretation into LSA (sign language).
Guests at the 2023 Book Fair
Buenos Aires is the cultural epicenter of Latin America, a cosmopolitan city characterized by a rich intellectual activity. During the Fair this movement sharpens and is enriched by the participation of many local authors and guests from abroad. Among the international guests who will participate in this edition stand out the Spanish Irene VallejoPresident Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, Fernando Aramburu, Santiago Posteguillo, Blanca Llum Vidal, Luz Gabas and Arturo Perez Reverte; the uruguayan poet Ida Vitale; the canadian Nita Prose; the mexican Natalia Lafourcade, Clau Ramirez and fernanda melchor; the chileans Raul Zurita, Nona Fernandez and Alejandro Aravena; Argentines residing abroad Hernan Diaz and Annick Louis; Razu Alaudin Borges translator into Bengali; the Italian Gianrico Carofiglio; the french illustrator Benjamin Lacombe; the peruvian narrator Jaime Bayley; Brazilians Itamar Vieira and Bernardo Carvalho; the german bestseller Antje Ravic Strubel and Valerie MilesAmerican-born Granta editor.
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