Speakers José Manuel Fajardo (Spain) and Rhina P. Espaillat (Dominican Republic/USA) participated in the exchange, and it was moderated by Ángela Suazo.
Simultaneously, in the Letters Room, located in the Juan Bosch auditorium of the National Library, Wilson Gómez, president of the Duartiano Institute, gave the talk “Duarte, Constitution and the national symbols.”
Meanwhile, the National Publisher of the Ministry of Culture presented various books in the Pavilion for the Promotion of Reading and Writing.
This morning a guided tour took place at the Mateo Morrison Pavilion, a Dominican writer to whom this edition of the literary event is dedicated.
Located in the National Museum of History and Geography, the space brings attendees closer to the life and work of the 2010 National Literature Prize winner through illustrations, paintings, photographs, cultural supplements, manuscripts and personal objects related to his profession as a writer.
Multiple proposals for all ages take place this weekend at the Fair, which this year has Washington Heights as the guest of honor, where the largest Dominican community in the United States resides.
This afternoon the colloquium “All migrants. The long memory of displacement”, with the participation of the writers Alfonso Mateo-Sagasta (Spain), Ondjaki (Angola) and Rey Andújar (Dominican/USA).
Tonight, to close the day, a concert organized by the House of Music will take place in the Juan Lockward bar of the Eduardo Brito National Theater, as part of the “Bohemian Nights.”
With a program that includes more than 500 activities and in which 61 international guests from 18 countries participate, the festival of letters brings together representatives of 242 publishing labels and a dozen local distributors until November 17.
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