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The one in Valencia comes after the great Madrid book fair, controversy this year because Luis Guillermo Plata, the ambassador of Colombia—country invited to the meeting—, claimed that they had selected "neutral" authors, wanting to say, not at all critical of Colombian President Iván Duque. We tell this because the organization of the Valencia Book Fair has invited a very politically committed international author who has become one of the most critical voices against the regime of the president of her country, the nicaraguan Gioconda Belli. Since the month of May, Belli remains outside Nicaragua due to the government's escalating repression against the opposition, and Sunday 17/10 will star in Vivers a meeting with his readers that will also have the participation of the poet Olivia Angels Gregori. Another woman will open the fair on Thursday 14/10, the writer from Madrid Julia Navarro that at the end of August he published his last novel From nowhere. Antonio Muñoz Molina —which will be the subject of a tribute and will also present his most recent work—, Manuel Vilas (The kisses), Javier Sierra (Pandora's message) , Victor del Tree (The father's son) o Maria Oruña (What the tide hides) are other national authors who will visit the Fair. The list of authors of the Valencian Community heads it Santiago Posteteuillo presenting And Julia challenged the gods —the continuation of Yo, Julia—, follow Maximum garden (Love was enough), the director of Cinema in La Ser Pepa Blanes (open your eyes), Carlos Marzal (We have never been happier), Lourdes Toledo (The restlessness. Diary 2018-2019), Vicente Molina Foix (The gourmet sisters), Xavier Aliaga (We are already dead, amor), Fani Grande (Empar and the shungovirus) o Maria de Quesada, which presents the second edition of The yellow girl with stories that talk about suicide in the first person in order to break the taboo and help fight the scourge (here you can read the interview we did with him). For its part, Rafa Lahuerta will participate in the reading club of his book Norway, the great revelation of literature in Valencian. Besides, a special tribute will be paid to the Valencian poet Francisco Brines, which was recognized with the Cervantes prize 2020 shortly before his death last May. Finally, nine round tables will deal with current cultural and social issues focused on the literary field: freedom of expression (with the presence of exiled journalists), migration and the role of women (which will have a speaker who has just left Afghanistan), the Mediterranean corridor of books, the African literatures of Spanish expression, the Commonwealth between Catalonia, Valencia and the Balearic Islands or the best books to combat LGTBI-Phobia. AU
