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• 01 / 18 / 2009

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Taking place in the San Carlos de la Cabaña Fortress, in the other side of the Havana Bay, the literary festival will last in the capital until February 22nd before going on to the rest of the country until March 8.

According to declarations to the Granma newspaper, the director of the editorial house, Enrique Pérez, explained that people will be able to get, among other texts, El libro de Teresa, by the Venezuelan Armando José Sequera and Nada detiene a las golondrinas, by the Argentinean Carlos Marianidis.

Calvina by the Italian writer Carlo Frabetti, will also be presented as well as La increíble historia de Lavinia, by his countrywoman Bianca Pitzorno, and El misterio del solitario by the Norwegian narrator, Jostein Gaarder.

The festival will be dedicated to Chile, the guest of honor country, and the editorial will also circulate three small books from that country, Las aventuras de Pedro Urdemales, La visita del hada escarlata and El niño de la escopeta y sus amigos.

There shall also be classic titles such as Los náufragos del Liguria, by Emilio Salgari; El mundo perdido by Arthur Conan Doyle and El pirata by Walter Scott which were in high demand in the previous festival, are some of the re-editions.

Among the Cuban new things there is an anthology of short stories, by Omar Felipe Mauri, that groups together more than twenty titles from narrators from the beginning of last century to our days.

One of the attractions of the collateral activities will be the traditional theoretical encounter Una merienda de locos, in which the young public will be able to hold an exchange with specialists from the editorial house about their dream book.

This is added to the debates Retos de la literatura infantil latinoamericana en el siglo XXI (Challenges of children’s Latin American Literature in the 21st century), among other topics.

The International Book Festival, which will be dedicated to the writer Fina García Marruz and to the intellectual Jorge Ibarra, 1990 National Literature and 1996 Social Sciences Award respectively, will end in the eastern province of Santiago de Cuba.

(Cubarte)