book Fair from Madrid
The book Fair Madrid will have this year a series of Latin American authors in their activitiesfocused this time on sports in literature.
The program presented this Wednesday includes writers such as the American Richard Ford or Argentina Mariana Enriquez to talk about literature as resistance, while the American Lionel Shriver, the Spanish Sergio del Molino or Soledad Puértolas and the Colombian Héctor Abad Faciolince will address rhythm in the water.
Leila Guerriero and Martín Caparrós, both Argentine, the Mexican Juan Villoro Ruiz and the Chilean Alejandro Jodorowski They are also among the invited authors, for talks on issues such as stories and football.
A total of 350 booths will host the central Retiro Park from next May 30 in the 83rd edition of the fair, with a new space for small publishers that will open for the first time at night on one day.
The director of the fair, Eva Orúe, presented at a press conference the programming of this next meeting of readers, authors, booksellers, editors and distributors that will be inaugurated by the queen of Spain, Letizia, and that will be will last for 16 days.
Under the motto “Train your mind, read your body”the fair will be the scene of more than three hundred activities that, according to Orúe, will go beyond dealing with books or athletes, although it will feature numerous athletes who are also authors or writers with a “particular sensitivity” towards sport.
With a budget of 1.7 million euros, one of the novelties will be ‘The illuminated night’, an evening on June 7 in which the fair will remain open until 11:30 p.m. local time, with theatrical performances and musical performances.
On June 5, Environment Day will be celebrated again at the fair with the Libernature festivalin which we will talk about the rise in literature dedicated to topics related to nature.
- And on June 13, Olympic and Paralympic Day will be celebrated with activities and the presence of athletes.
The previous edition, in which it rained for a good part of the fair, exceeded 2022 business volume by 9.6%, with book sales of about 11 million euros, although the number of visitors dropped to around 1.2 million, compared to 3 the previous year.
