Friday, May 2, 2025, 18:35
The XXXVIII Jaén Book Fair will be held from May 9 to 18 on Roldan and Marín Street with extensive program for all audiences that will include presentations and signatures of books, batucadas and storytelling, among other activities. On this occasion there will be 24 booths, four more than last year, and the preacher will be the Ubernse writer David Uclés.
In the presentation this Friday, the collaboration between public institutions was revealed to carry out this event with the letters promoted by the Provincial Association of Libraries and stationery of Jaén. The president of this entity, Francisco González; José Ayala, Territorial Delegate of Tourism, Culture and Sports in Jaén of the Junta de Andalucía; María Espejo, Councilor for Culture, Tourism and Parties, Historical Heritage and youth of the City of Jaén; Africa Colomo, deputy of Culture and Sports of the Diputación; and Marta Torres, Vice Chancellor for Culture of the University of Jaén.
The proclamation will be on May 9 at 8:00 p.m. in the presentation room located in the courtyard of the Tourist Dynamization Center ‘Jaén, Paraíso Interior’, which represents one of the main spaces on which this fair will take place together with the so -called UNIA space (an interior room on the ground floor of the building itself) and the booths.
“If you had to put an adjective to the fair it would be ‘Jienense’ because of the 78 authors that are already confirmed, 45 are from here, that is, 58%. Although it is not a closed figure and in the next few days it will increase, ”said Francisco González. David Uclés will join other Jienenses names such as Emilio Lara, Manu Erena, Fanny Rubio or Luis Miguel Sánchez Tostado.
This year, as a novelty, three booths for book signatures will be made available to the authors. «We increased a booth with respect to previous years with the objective that they can be signing two hours, when the usual had been an hour. It is a request that some made to us in the previous edition, and we already launched it as another example of support to those authors who have more difficulty to enter the always difficult national distribution and promotion channels, ”explained the president of the booksellers.
For the preparation of the poster, a contest of ideas has been held between the components of Viñeta 6 in recent months and the author has been the graphic humorist and illustrator Arturo Molero, who will have two spaces to be able to expose his work at the Book Fair.
In addition, children’s and youth literature will be enhanced. Among the authors and activities already confirmed are Nono Granero or the Conchinchina company.
The president of Los Libreros Jienenses expressed his thanks to the Junta de Andalucía, the City Council of Jaén, the Diputación and the University, as well as the sponsoring companies (Caja Rural de Jaén, Blanca Printing and International University of Andalusia) and IFEJA, which again assumes the technical organization.
Authors
From the hand of the Ministry of Culture and Sports through the Andalusian Center of the Letters, authors such as María Regla Prieto and Salvador Daza (‘Weapons under the altar. Homicidal clergy in Spain’) will come; José Ángel Mañas, who will dialogue about a ‘Kronen History’, a novel essay thirty years after his iconic novel ‘Kronen stories’. Andrés Neuman will talk and sign copies of ‘until he begins to shine’, a novel where the winner of the Alfaguara award performs an act of justice with the legacy of María Moliner. José Calvo Poyato will talk about his novel ‘Owners of the World’ and the young Andalusian Lucía Chacón will do the same with ‘The Atelier on Lagasca Street’. For children’s and youth audience, the Andalusian Center of Las Letras organizes meetings with schoolchildren, as well as children’s animation activities in the afternoon, such as ‘The Magic of the Books’ with Jesús Jaén, and storytelling with Conchinchina.
The proposals of the City of Jaén include Juan Antonio Anguita, Martín Paredes Aparicio, Juan Malo, Noelia Illana and Luis Foronda, who will be added a young 14 -year -old Jienense author, Javier García Ruiz, with cerebral palsy that has written his first novel ‘Adventures in Jaén, friends in danger’. The Consistory also promotes the presentation of the book ‘My name is anyone’, by Nicolás Hernández-Casteilla.
In the specific case of the University of Jaén, from Editorial Uja participates with its own booth, in which a representation of the editorial fund of the publications and news will be displayed. Specifically, about 180 titles will be exhibited, of them 130 of the UJA Editorial label, included in fifteen of the new collections. The UJA has edited a facsimile that makes available to all the booths for donation to the visitors of the fair: it will be the work ‘Solitudes, galleries and other poems …’, on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the birth of Antonio Machado.
As for the activities scheduled by the UJA there will be presentations of books, musical performances and exhibitions, such as the performance of the batujada and the presentation of the book ‘I call poets. Miguel Hernández and his literary teachers’.
