The Fair, located in Plaza Alfonso XIII, will open its doors at 5:00 p.m. and the opening ceremony will take place at 6:00 p.m., with the presence of the Vice President and Minister of Universities, Equality, Culture and Sports of the regional Government, Pablo Zuloaga ; the mayor of Santander, Gema Igual; and the president of Libreros Asociados de Cantabria, Luis Lisaso.
This year, more than 90 writers, cartoonists and illustrators will present their latest works, chat with their readers and sign copies of their books. The program also includes a varied offer for all audiences with workshops, storytelling, round tables and multidisciplinary presentations. In total, almost a hundred activities, all of them free.
The theme chosen this year is ‘Waves of humor’, with which the booksellers intend to vindicate the role that humor and books play as “powerful tools to heal and protect, and to transform”. The poster is the work of the Cantabrian Álvaro Terán, cartoonist for the magazine El Jueves.
The organization of the Book Fair this year establishes the same safety and hygiene standards as in the last edition. The use of a mask and respect for the safety distance will be two essential requirements to access the venue. There will be an access point from which the capacity and compliance with hygiene and disinfection requirements will be controlled.
OPENING DAY
The writer Juan Corsario Losada will star in the first meeting of this year with the presentation, at 6.30 pm, of ‘Steel Bubbles’ (Ed. Almuzara). The Valladolid author, who has lived in Cantabria for several years, will be accompanied by the Cantabrian writer and editor Luis Alberto Salcines.
Corsario has received several awards throughout his career, including the 2019 José María de Pereda Novel Prize with ‘Lluvia en el cajón’, awarded by the Government of Cantabria.
At 7:00 p.m. it will be the turn of Teresa Valero (Madrid, 1969), one of the great European cartoonists of her generation. He will present his graphic novel ‘Contrapaso. The children of the others’ (Norma Editorial), a panoramic look at postwar Spain in the key of a thriller.
The scriptwriter and comic book author addresses in her work -with a foreword by Elvira Lindo- issues such as censorship, repression of the student movement, psychiatry as an instrument of control, the theft of children or the lives of women and homosexuals during the Dictatorship. Comic critic and author Yexus will host the meeting.
The opening day will end with the authors Raquel Carnero Gómez, Luis Marcos Nogales and the Cantabrian cartoonist Iñigo Ansola, who will present ‘Antibióticos vs. bacteria From resistance to counterattack ‘(Ed. Larousse). With an entertaining style, quilted by Ansola’s humorous illustrations, this book disseminates current knowledge about bacteria, its benefits and also its harms to the general public.
Carnero and Marcos, both pharmacists, expose the ways to fight infections showing the essential role of antibiotics to achieve this, and define the changes necessary for this fight to be – or become – effective. The presenter of the meeting, which will begin at 8:00 p.m., will be Mónica Mateo Manzano.
The Santander and Cantabria Book Fair is organized by Libreros Asociados de Cantabria (LAC) and has the support of the Santander City Council and the Government of Cantabria.
13 LIBRARIES
It will be held in the Plaza Alfonso XIII in Santander and will have the participation of 13 Cantabrian bookstores, as well as the Guild of Editors of Cantabria and the group of independent publishers. The City Council and the Ministry of Culture will also be present with stands.
The participating bookstores are Anaïs Libros (Castro Urdiales), Campillo (Torrelavega), Centro Papelería (Reinosa), Costa Esmeralda (Laredo), El Crucero (Revilla de Camargo), Gil (Santander); La Vorágine (Santander), Unquera Children’s Bookstore (Val de San Vicente), Lisaso (Renedo de Piélagos), Nexus 4 (Santander), Sancho Panza (Cabezón de la Sal), Tantín (Santander) and Utopía (Santander).
They will give a 10% discount for the purchase of each book during the 12 days of activity, and for purchases over 20 euros a copy of ‘The Santander that left us’, by José Ramón Sánchez, will be given away. The work, edited by the Santander City Council and the Cantabria Publishers Guild with the collaboration of Libreros Asociados de Cantabria, collects the literary and pictorial reflections of the award-winning Cantabrian cartoonist on the novel ‘Sotileza’, by José María de Pereda, written in 1885 * to resurrect people, things and places that hardly exist anymore * cornered by new customs.
The hours will be from 11:00 to 14:00 and from 17:00 to 21:00. It will open its doors this Wednesday, June 9 in the afternoon and will close on Sunday, June 20, a day in which there will only be activity from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
This year’s edition has the collaboration of the Cantabrian Commerce Federation (COERCAN), Hotel Silken Coliseum, Floristería Sara, OK Sofás, Nordeste Ultramarinos, Peña Candil, Decibelios Eventos and Ledmania Pro.
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