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• 02 / 27 / 2009

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This edition started the 12th of February in the mentioned building and offered until the 22nd of the same month texts for all ages and tastes. It was dedicated to the poet Fina Garcia Marruz, to the historian Jorge Ibarra and to Chile as guest country.

From the 26th of February until the 1st of March it will be at the western provinces from Pinar del Rio until Sancti Spiritus, including the special municipality of Isla de la Juventud, while from the 5th until the 8th of March the fair will reach from Ciego de Avila to Guantánamo in the eastern of the country.

The meeting, which is also dedicated to the 50 anniversary of the Casa de las Americas, will have its official closure the 8th of March in the city of Santiago de Cuba, where readers are impatiently awaiting the arrival of this traditional great party of knowledge.

In March will be kept minifairs in the municipalities all over the island, while from the 2nd until the 27th of April there will be Mountain Book Festivals in the nine provinces of the Turquino Plan, informed the Organizing Committee of the event, which is considered the biggest cultural one in Cuba.

Over 200 publishing news have been at the disposals of the readers from the capital, from the 5th of February, a week before the official opening at the Morro – Cabaña Fortress, which had the presence of the Chilean president Michelle Bachalet and of the Army General and President of the Cuban State and Ministry Councils, Raul Castro.

(Cubarte)