FROM THURSDAY 27/4 ON SUNDAY 7/5
NURSERY GARDENS. Cavanilles, 1
It is the first year that the Valencia Book Fair invites a city in the world to participate in its programming and the one that initiates the proposal (extended in other fairs) it will be New York. A city with very important links with Valencian writers and artists such as Rafael Guastavino, the architect who “reinvented” New York at the end of the 19th century; Joaquín Sorolla, who accepted the titanic task of painting the series Vision of Spain for the Hispanic Society of America; Manolo Valdes, adopted New Yorker who has exhibited his sculptures in the nerve center of the city or Santiago Calatrava, author of churches and metro stations of four million euros (with leaks). La Fira Internacional del Llibre (FILNYC) from New York will participate in this edition exchanging experiences and promoting their own literature and the Valencia Book Fair will return next fall with a representation of Valencian writers. Pel que fa als Premis Fira del Llibre 2023, enguany recauran en l’escriptor de Beniopa (Safor) Joseph Piera I the author of bestseller world Manolito gafotas, Elvira Cute, who has just published the novel In the den of the wolf (Six Barral) located in a small uninhabited town of El Racó d'Ademús where his mother was from.
Hi haurà clubs de lectura amb Victor del Tree i Raquel Ricart al voltant dels seus llibres Nobody on this earth(Destination) o The God's finger (Bow), and a handful of activities that we summarize for you below. Un acte sobre literatura hispanoafricana amb Donato N'Dongo [7/5], a round table on censorship and freedom of expression in children's and youth literature [27/4] following the controversy with Roald Dahl and the presentation of the novel When there is no one left d’Esther López Barceló with the presence of members of associations in defense of historical memory [28/4]. The Dublin Hispanic Ian Gibson go present A carmen in Granada: memoirs of a Dublin Hispanist [29/4], Manuel Vilas Us [6/5] i Rosa Montero, which returns to the black genre in the company of Oliver Tuc (guanyador del Premi Quais du Polar, the most prestigious French award in the detective genre), The unknown [7/5]. Sorolla will make an appearance in the year of the centenary of his death at the presentation of the book How to change your life with Sorolla, una combinació de biografia, essay and fiction of Cesar Suarez [30/4], and so will Vicent Andrés Estellés at the event commemorating the 30th anniversary of his death [4/5]. There is much more, check out the full schedule on the web <firallibre.com> S.M.
