Cuba will analyze the cultural link with the USA in the coming Book Fair
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- 02 / 11 / 2010
Fernando Rojas, Cuban deputy minister of Culture, announced that the Book Fair will be opened the 11 of February and a day later "we are going to have a panel about the cultural relationships between Cuban and the USA" in the present and in the future.
The workshop, organized by the Cuban Association of Writers and Artists (UNEAC, after its initials in Spanish), "does not express anything spectacular, but at the same time to analyze these cultural relationships is very important", commented Rojas in a press conference.
Olga Lidia Triana, vice president of the Cuban Book Institute, indicated the US writers Clifford Conner and Michael Parenti and the Cuban American writer Sonia Rivera will take part of the Fair.
The cultural exchanges between Cuba and the USA, countries in political conflict for over half a century, were reduced since 2004, when the George W Bush strengthened the travel restrictions to the island, but these travel have turned more common since Obama entered the White House a year ago.
Triana informed that over 100 expositors from 40 countries will take part in the Fair. Important writers, such as the South African Nadine Gordimer Literature Nobel Price winner and the Canadian Margaret Atwood, will take part in the Fair.
Russia, for three decades the main economic, political and military ally of Cuba, as part of the Soviet Union, will be represented in the Fair by a 200 people delegation, among them 20 writers, commented Mijail Kaminin, their ambassador in Havana.
The relationships between the two countries deteriorated after the disintegration of the Soviet Union in 1991, but in 2005 started a strengthening of the relationships process with mutual visits of the Presidents Raul Castro and Dmitri Medvedev.
Kaminin indicated that the participation of Russia in the Fair "corresponds to the philosophy of the current stage of the relationships between Russia and Cuba, which are developed at an accelerated rhythms in every area".
The fair, which will also pay tribute to the Cuban writer Reynaldo Gonzalez and the historian Maria del Carmen Barcia, will offer 6 millions copies to sell and will end in Havana the 21 of February a date in which will start its tour all over the island until the 7 of March.
Source: Cubarte
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