Next Wednesday, December 9, 2020, the thirteenth edition of the Quito International Book Fair. This year, the literary meeting will be totally virtual and will have the participation of 19 international guests and 69 national.
Between the international writers that will be part of talks and presentations by books there are the Argentines Martín Caparrós, Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, Camila Sosa and Patricio Pron, the Colombians Juan Gabriel Vásquez, Mario Mendoza and Giuseppe Caputo and the Spanish Santiago Posteguillo and Javier Moro.
Within the program they will also participate Ecuadorian authors such as Mónica Ojeda, Javier Vásconez, Leonardo Valencia, Ernesto Carrión, María Fernanda Heredia, Gabriela Ponce, Roy Sigüenza, Adolfo Macías, Juan Valdano, Natalia García Freire and María Fernanda Ampuero.
Among the unmissable activities of the fair is the series of Master lectures dictated by foreign authors. The first is called ‘Hugs of words: literature in uncertain times’. It will be in charge of the Colombian Yolanda Reyes And it will be held on Wednesday, December 9, from 7:00 p.m.
Reyes is one of the writers of children’s literature Y youth most important of Latin America. Between his publications ‘The terror of sixth B’, ‘Mary of the dinosaurs’ and ‘The terrible years’ stand out.
The second conference is entitled ‘Latin America?’ And it will take place on Thursday, December 10, from 4:00 p.m. Will be in charge of Martin Caparrós, author of essays such as ‘El Hambre’ and ‘Argentinismos’ and of novels such as ‘Who corresponds’ and ‘Sinfín’, which was published in the middle of this year.
The last conference will be in charge of the Mexican writer Alma Guillermoprieto. The author of ‘Havana in a mirror’ and ‘Los placeres y los dias’ will present ‘Could it be that I am a feminist’, on Friday, December 11, from 6:00 p.m.
During the five days of the fair, a series of publications. Among the most prominent are ‘Julia challenged the gods’ by Santiago Posteguillo; ‘A proof of fire’ by Javier Moro ‘; ‘Back the view back’ by Juan Gabriel Vásquez; ‘Permanent escape’ by Gabriela Alemán; ‘Almost at night’ by Javier Vásconez; ‘Geography of wonder’ by Adolfo Macías Huerta; ‘Passions of a good man’ by Francisco Febres Cordero and ‘La bait’ by Ernesto Carrión.
Santiago Vizcaíno, curator of academic programming, says that the FIL from Quito It will revolve around the idea of literature as another way of meeting others and with oneself. Hence the motto from fair will be “Reading: another way to find ourselves”. In the talks, conferences and round tables, topics such as the reading and the writing inside of the lockdown, the pandemic seen from philosophy, digital journalism in times of pandemic, literary genres, migration, sisterhood and the role of women in Latin American literature.
Vizcaíno adds that FIL is conceived as the space that promotes reactivation of the publishing sector the country and the work of the writers, “who have been one of the components of the publishing market hardest hit by the health crisis of the covid-19”.
FIL will have a pavilion childish Y youth In which 60 motivational reading activities will be carried out, with guests such as the writers María Teresa Andruetto, Leonor Bravo and Sandra de la Torre Guarderas.
There will also be a special edition of the Tale Marathon.
The fair will take place in a digital platform It will have 80 stands for publishers, bookstores, university publishers, independents, embassies and public institutions. Programming can be accessed through the page filquito2020.com.
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