Madrid .- Under the slogan “Love is what we tend / bridges, words,” tomorrow will open the Madrid Book Fair, which this 74th edition will feature 368 booths, more than 470 exhibitors and numerous activities including poetry occupy a prominent place.
The Queen Sophia, mother of King Philip VI, will be responsible for officially opening this literary event that annually brings together authors and readers in the Retiro Park of the capital. And the proclamation borne by this time of the writer Dolores Redondo, author of the hit trilogy Baztán .
Round will be one of the many pens to sign on June 14 copies and will chat with fans. Next to it will be among other Javier Marias, Arturo Perez-Reverte, María Dueñas, Javier Cercas and Antonio Muñoz Molina and the recently won the Alfaguara Prize, Chilean Carla Guelfenbein, Colombian Juan Gabriel Vasquez and American Donna Leon.
The sector deals with optimism this new edition. “After years of decline, in this 2015 are encouraging figures,” he said during the presentation Pilar Gallego, president of the Guild of Editors of Madrid, referring to the good results achieved in the past San Jordi in Barcelona results.
As it moves from the theme itself, born of some verses of Jose Angel Valente, poetry focus more activities. Among others, will be honored at Valente, whose death itself will turn 15, and the poet of the Generation of ’27 Damaso Alonso, who passed away 25.
There will be a special memory for Carmen Martin Gaite and Teresa of Jesus. And coinciding with the fifth centenary of his birth, the Book Fair of Madrid joins tributes to the holy and writer with the round table “Teresa of Avila, sadness and melancholy not want them in my house.”
However, no shortage of traditional storytelling and activities for little ones, and among the events planned there are also talks of writers and filmmakers, closer to the world of The Arabian Nights or a focus on “democratic paradox” debate in which participate the number two left-wing party Podemos, Inigo Errejón.
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