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The Minister of Culture, Youth and Sports, Pedro Alberto Cruz, this morning the programming of the Regional Book Fair, an event whose organization has set a target "go around the event and make it one of the major cultural events of the Murcia region and, above all, to fulfill a function that has to have all show of its kind, serving as a catalyst for reading and, by extension, of the book. "
Along with the Minister participated in the press conference the director general of Books, Archives and Libraries, Francisco Giménez, and the director of the Fair, José María Pozuelo.
Among the novelties of this year's Book Fair in the Region of Murcia and, according to the counselor said, "will make greater distance from other issues" is the "number, quality and magnitude of the writers who will participate in it. "
Thus, in this new edition will present "leading figures of Spanish literature" as Luis Alberto de Cuenca, Enrique Vila-Matas, Laura Gallego, Fernando Garcia de Cortazar, Soledad Puértolas or Espido Freire, among others.
Among them are also known authors such as Eloy Sánchez Rosillo Murcia, Marta Zafrilla, Luis Leante, Javier Galera Guillamón and Antonio Garcia.
And this year the fair provides José María Pozuelo Yvancos as director, "one of the critics and literary theorists most important, prestigious and requested within the Spanish context," said Cruz.
Its introduction in front of the Book Fair has noticed a fairly important in terms of quality and, above all, by their ability to claim and authority within the world of literature. "
The Book Fair has "greater diversity and wealth of options with special attention to small booksellers," Cruz stressed.
He also noted the "significant increase in participants booths, 58 percent more than last year, which" shows that the book industry has relied on the fair and the quality of it. "
In this sense, the general director of the Book, Francisco Giménez, noted that "the industry has relied on the organization and has supported the project with their high involvement, a total of 57 booths.
On the other hand, Pedro Alberto Cruz said "the empowerment of the regional dimension of the fair this year" because the municipalities of Cartagena, Molina de Segura, Cieza, Lorca, Caravaca and Mula will host events with "major firms involved "as Freire Espido Molina, Luis Antonio de Villena in Cieza or Eloy Sánchez Rosillo in Cartagena
The Book Fair this year will be held from September 26 to October 5 on the exchange date the counselor explained that this event has been held in April, "which had an inflation of fairs and events related to the book "the last week of September and first of October," where the return to the academic year and everyday life makes us think that the city will come with more desire to read. "
Activities
In addition, the Book Fair claims that "the citizen not only receives, but to provide their experience," Pozuelo said Yvancos, with activities such as' I remember ... "based on the work of French writer Perec, who, inspired by Joe Brainard's work, 'I remember', he wrote a book that has become a classic in world literature: "Je me souviens."
This action "requires the participation of Murcia to perform a memory exercise, tell the story alive in the region", stressed the Minister of Culture, who noted that all phrases that are collected will be played in a performance on 4 October and further editions were published within three borders.
So far we have received more than 150 texts through the website of the Regional Library of Murcia (www.bibliotecaregional.carm.es).
The Book Fair has planned several activities to encourage reading coordinated with schools and aimed at school children as storytellers, both children and adults, puppet shows, panel discussions and poetry readings.
For his part, Jose Maria Pozuelo said "we wanted the front row were writers, both as literary and communication.
For this, at last, after all, is an encounter between audience and writer, "he added.
In this regard, said that "every day of the fair is the participation of major figures, on a schedule that has more than 60 activities, with an average of 5 or 6 a day."
José María Pozuelo Yvancos
José Pozuelo Yvancos, is Professor of Literary Theory and Comparative Literature at the University of Murcia.
It is one of the leading theorists and literary critics of our country, writes articles for various media, including ABC whose regular contributor.
Among the books he has written are 'From the Autobiography: Theory and Styles',' Windows of fiction.
Hispanic narrative.
XX and XXI centuries', 'Theory and Spanish literature canon', 'The theory of literary language', and 'poetics of fiction'.
Source: CARM
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