Next Wednesday April 20th the 37 Edition of the Buenos Aires Book Fair will be officially opened. In the traditional spot of La Rural (2704 Sarmiento Avenue, Palermo), the fair will last until May 9th. This year, the event counts on renowned guests and moving tributes. The motto of this edition is: “An open city to the world of books”, an idea aligned with the honor that Buenos Aires received when being appointed as World Book Capital 2011.
The Buenos Aires International Book Fair is like a city of books, a national and international catalog of editorial industries and a party of culture. Since 1975, the first year to be organized, the fair acquired a prominent place and became the most important one in Latin America and an outstanding world reference, gathering more than a million people every year.
The fair usually summons renowned authors from different countries. In past editions visited us writers as: Paul Auster, Ray Bradbury, Susan Sontag, José Saramago, Isabel Allende, Arturo Pérez Reverte; and the locals Jorge Luis Borges, Ernesto Sábato and Adolfo Bioy Casares, among others. In this edition, the opening wil be in charge of Literature Nobel Prize winner Mario Vargas Llosa. In this act, two local figures which passed away this year will be tribute: María Elena Walsh and David Viñas.
The Book Fair can be visited the opening day, Wednesday April 20th, from 6M to 10PM, and the following days: from Sundays to Thursdays, 2PM to 10PM, Fridays and Saturdays, 2PM to 11PM and the next Saturday April 23rd in an extended time from 2PM to 1AM Sunday. The tickets cost 15 Argentine pesos (3.5 American dollars) from Mondays to Thursdays and 20 pesos (5 dollars) from Fridays to Sundays. For further information, visit the Book Fair official website (available only in Spanish).
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