Filmmaker David Trueba participates this year in the San Fernando Book Fair. He will be just one of the authors – around fifty – who will attend this event that will take place in the city from June 17 to 22. The opening day will also feature a round table as part of the dedication that is being made this year to the center.owner of the Bozano Bookstore with Francisco de Paula García Barroso and Juan Manuel Fernándezowner of the Manuel de Falla bookstore in Cádiz who has just retired as protagonists.
The mayor, Patricia Cavada, highlights this meeting “with two exceptional people” who will talk about their great career. “Juan Manuel Fernández has had an intense year due to his retirement,” recalls the councilor who points out that this event is added to the activities carried out this year by the historic island establishment to which the City Council contributes with this type of initiatives.
The organization of events, defends Cavada, is an “excuse to generate activity, both in commerce and in hospitality, but in this case it is also linked to culture that has a value, we promote knowledge, debate, reading“. The mayor elaborates that it is “a special moment for a city. “People get involved from different areas.”
For some years now, the government has opted for a new trajectory to the Book Fair, “more dynamic, more cheerful, more visual to attract visitorswhich would combine the exhibition and sale of books with being a meeting point.” “Some come to buy books, others enjoy a talk or a children’s activity”, objectives that can be mixed.
Fifty authors
Events of all kinds have been scheduled: book presentations, signing of copies, talks, the aforementioned opening event and the adaptation of a podcast, as well as children’s workshops. “The protagonism of the little ones” is key, “in them we have to foster a love of books, of culture.”
This Book Fair will feature filmmaker David Trueba who will chat with Daniel Heredia about his work on Tuesday, June 18 at 9:00 p.m. The journalist and activist Lydia Cacho, “linked to the city in recent years after receiving the Press Freedom Award”, will open the opening day with Paqui Ayllón in charge of reading some fragments of her books. She takes over from the writer Ana Rossetti, who was the protagonist last year.
They will have a prominent place too authors, many leaders in different genres at the national levellike Inma Rubiales, with All the places we kept secret, on Saturday the 22nd at 7:00 p.m.; Cristina Morató, who will talk about her essay Queens of legend, on Friday, June 21 at 9:00 p.m.; or Susana Martín Gijón, who will present Babylon 1580 on Thursday, June 20 at 8:00 p.m. Award-winning authors will come such as Silvia Hidalgo, Busquets Prize 2023 with Nothing to say; J.esús Carrasco, who presents Praise of the handsBrief Library Award; and Mar Moreno, Andalusia Critics Award.
There will be no shortage of talent from the land, also local, with authors such as Daniel Fopiani, who presents The lineage of the stars, at 9:00 p.m. on Saturday, June 22; the islander Juan Rafael Mena, with the novel The Erothya Thesis, on Monday, June 17 at 8:00 p.m.; Luis García Gil, with the biography Serrat, the path is made by walkingon Tuesday the 19th at 8:00 p.m.
Along with the tribute to Bozano, another is made to the poet Miguel Hernández, with the podcast of journalist Pedro Espinosa with experts Carmen Alemany and Juan José Téllez. “We are going to reinterpret it. We will listen to them and there will be some musical performance,” she tells the island mayor.
Differentiated spaces
The Plaza del Rey will once again host this cultural event that will be set up with different spaces. There will be a welcome cover and the traditional area of exhibition modules and book sales. Under the awning part of the surface the point for children’s workshops will be located; and will have an auditorium for talks and literary activity. In the central area, a rest area has been planned for reading books.
The aesthetics play with this idea, which is why pastel tones have been chosen, volumes that will remind us of books, cushions, bookcases and book carts. “We seek to create a space to be, more than to visit, to meet to promote culture,” explains Patricia Cavada.
This year’s poster shows a large library where a girl struggles to pick up a book, illuminated as a metaphor for how knowledge illuminates in the face of ignorance.
