The International Book Fair (FIL) of Lima culminates this Wednesday, August 6 and closes this 2025 edition with a series of activities with international guests.
This August 5, at 6 pm, at the César Vallejo Auditorium, will be the presentation of the book It is the story of a lion. After Robert Prevost’s footprint, Pope of Peru from Iván Herrera Orsi. One of the works – around three – that have been published following this election that puts Peru in the international showcase.
Later, at 8 pm, in the Blanca Varela Auditorium, the conversation will be held “An encounter with Liniers and Kevin Johansen”, the Argentine visual artist and musician who for several years turn the world painting and singing on the stage. A dynamic that has positioned them as a different pair.
And the closing of Tuesday will be with the concert of the Arequipa Los Chapillacs, at 9:30 pm in the Blanca Varela Auditorium. Group that is not only one of the most representative of the White City within the alternative scene fusion of rock and cumbia but also that it has turned through Europe.
The next day, on Wednesday, August 6, the last day of the fair, at 6 pm do not miss the presentation of the book Peruvian culture of the writer and diplomat Alejandro Neyra, at the César Vallejo Auditorium. It is a meeting of stories that have pre -Columbian warriors as protagonists, Machu Picchu or a boring bureaucrat that plans the theft of an Inca relic.
An hour later, at 7 pm, it will be the presentation of I am the dagger and I am the woundof the prestigious Colombian writer Laura Restrepo. A novel that parodies the fierce current times, marked by the delirium of authoritarian, irrational and criminal rulers.
And at 9:30 pm, this edition of the International Book Fair of Lima is closed with the employer’s concert, a orchestra that, as its name says, resorts to the concept of the patron saint groups to invoke the celebration. They interpret the most popular pieces of the Peruvian songbook. The party is assured.
This selection is just some of the activities we can attend in recent days. For more details, you can visit the FULL PROGRAMMING OF THE FIL. You know, the fair is in the Park Próceres de la Independencia de Jesús María, from 11 am to 10 pm general entrance 10 soles.
