On June 24, within the framework of the Huilense Book and Art Festival, the Civil Aeronautics of Colombia and the Secretariat of Culture of Huila, in alliance with the Colombian Chamber of Books, inaugurated the reading room Let literature fly, located at the Benito Salas airport in Neiva. A place for the dissemination and promotion of the department’s literature, along with other artistic expressions, in commemoration of the 100 years of Civil Aeronautics and the centenary of the publication of the novel The Maelstrom by José Eustasio Rivera.
«From the Colombian Chamber of Books and the Bogotá International Book Fair, we are committed to promoting books and reading in different settings throughout the country, with the aim of establishing different routes and support networks that strengthen the circulation and marketing of books, as well as the participation and meetings of more authors with their readers in ideal and natural spaces such as the different regional book fairs that take place throughout the country. From FILBo, we celebrate the alliance that we began to build with the Civil Aeronautics in order to contribute to a country with more readers, both men and women», Adriana Ángel Forero, director of the Bogotá International Book Fair, FILBo.
