The Vice President of Colombia, Francia Márquez, will lead the delegation of the South American country that will inaugurate the 31st edition on February 9 of the International Book Fair of Havana, its organizers informed this Thursday.
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The maximum literary event on the island, which will be attended by 120 exhibitors from at least 40 nations and whiche will end on February 19, will have Colombia as a guest country.
In that context, Márquez will travel with the Colombian Minister of Culture, Patricia Ariza, and a commission of more than 20 writers, promoters and artists of the country. The vice president of the Government of Gustavo Petro -who will give the inauguration speech- will give several talks within a program that will have “total peace” as its central axis, the proposal not without controversy by the Colombian president to put an end to the armed conflict, according to advanced Ariza in a video message issued during the conference.
In this sense, Lucía González, a member of the Colombian Truth Commission, will give a talk on “what happened” in the more than 60 years of internal armed conflict in the country, reported José Noé Ríos, the country’s ambassador Andean on the island Among the invited artists from Colombia will be: Laura Restrepo, Celso Román, José Luis Díaz Granados, José Zuleta Ortiz and Juan Manuel Roca, among others.
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The Fair will be held simultaneously in the iconic Morro-Cabaña military historical complex and the historic center of Havana. There will be other sub-headquarters, such as the Casa de las Américas, the headquarters of the Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba, the University of Havana and the José Martí National Library. In her 4.2 million copies with 4,200 titles will be exhibited, of which 1,300 will be electronic books, reported Juan Rodríguez, president of the Cuban Book Institute and the organizing committee.
“It will be the largest, most massive, most comprehensive event of Cuban culture. We will be able to face the difficulties that this entails“added Rodríguez, while thanking the “efforts” of this year’s guest country. As happens every year, once the fair in Havana has closed, it will continue in the rest of the country until it comes to an end on the 19th of March in the city of Santiago de Cuba (east).
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EFE
