Christian Rainone already said, the president of the El Book Foundation, a month ago when the novelties of this edition were presented, the 49th of the International Book Fair of Buenos Aires, its management will be focused on a commitment to the dialogue. “The inmate and with the different government institutions,” he said then in reference to the Ministry of Culture of the Nation, whose heading Leonardo Cifelli ended up visiting the sample last year without announcing the runs, to take a couple of photos. This will not be the situation tomorrow, because the official is invited to the formal inauguration and it seems that it will be, so, the fair, the most convening cultural event in the country with more than one million visitors in each edition, will open its doors tomorrow at 18 when the writer, screenwriter and former director of the Juan Sasturain National Library read his inauguration speech and those responsible for the organization offer their speeches. It will be seen in some strategies to achieve new audiences. For that, the El Book Foundation established agreements with both the National Museum of Fine Arts and with platforms such as Netflix and applications such as Tiktok. “An agreement between the Museum of Fine Arts and the Book Foundation will allow the exhibition in the Ocher Pavilion of Works of the Museum’s Permanent exhibition, with their respective catalogs. The fact that the stage is the Book Fair enhances the idea of this significant union of plastic arts and books,” the organizers announced in March. They will have a lot of material at their disposal thanks to the national and international figures that will participate in the different activities, “they add at the time that Netflix, Tik Tok and Mubi will be part of the dissemination of some of the activities related to the presentation of books and series that will be made at the fair. As each year, Clarín and magazine ñ will have their own space, in which you can attend conferences and interviews with the authors and interviews Important from the cultural landscape in addition to artists and intellectuals. From Monday to Friday, it will be open from 14 to 22 while on Saturdays, Sundays and on Wednesday, May 1, it will work from 13 to 22. As every year, the first Saturday of the fair, in this case on April 26, will be the night of the fair, with free admission from 20 (in this case, the fair closes at 24) and a huge range of activities for readers and readers of all ages and all the interests. Riad, the capital of Saudi Arabia, is the guest city of honor, but the name of the authors who will visit Buenos Aires is still unknown. This year, the value of the tickets will be $ 5,000 for those who wish to reach La Rural from Monday to Thursday except Thursday, May 1, which is holiday by the worker’s day. For its part, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays, the price will be $ 8,000. You can also take advantage of the option of a three different day pass that costs $ 12,000. All these tickets have a benefit. The visitor who buys a daily ticket or the pass for three visits will receive a chequelibro of $ 8,000 to use in the libraries attached once the fair ends. If they wish to increase the chequelibro value to $ 12,000, they may choose to use it in the attached neighborhood libraries. Public at the Book Fair 2024. Photo: Martín Bonetto / Clarín Archive. Inputs of 3,500 pesos will have 3 vouchers of 1,000 and one of 500 pesos. Inputs of 5,000 pesos and the passes will have 5 vouchers of 1,000 pesos. Each voucher equivalent to 500 or 1,000 pesos can be used to cover up to 10% of the payment in purchases of 10,000 pesos or higher than that amount. They are cumulative vouchers: for the purchase of a book of 20,000 pesos, 2,000 pesos can be deducted in two vouchers of 1,000. And the books? The books increase as everything increases in Argentina, so it is good to reach the fair with some reference. In 2023, buying a copy cost between 6,000 and 8,000 pesos. Last year, novelties such as hate weddings (from Florencia Bonelli), Cora (Jorge Fernández Díaz) and the last actress (from Tamara Tenenbaum) were achieved by 23,999, 19,990 and 17,990 pesos, respectively, this time, news such as the madman of God at the end of the world, by Javier Cercas (Random House) costs $ 32,999 in Libraries, almost the same as the wind will burn, by Guillermo Saccomanno (Alfaguara Award), which leaves $ 31,999 or Middle Veronica, by Sergio Olguín (Tusquets), which is at $ 36,999. In that range, there is also a wild heritage, by Megan Maxwell (planet), at $ 33,900 and London street 38, from Philippe Sands Sands Sands Sands Sands Sands Sands Sands Sands Sands (Anagrama), at $ 37,500. A little cheaper is achieved in Menotti bookstores, the first, by Ezequiel Fernández Moores (South American) to $ 29,999, the betrayal of my language, by Camila Sosa Villad Book Fair 2024. Photo: Martín Bonetto / Archive Clarín.Initad Foreigners Nicaraguan Gioconda Belli, Italian Erri de Luca and Mexican Fabio Morarábito, among others. They will participate in both individual presentations of their books and in the various cycles organized by the fair. The dialogues of writers and writers of Argentina, inaugurated this time by the Argentine Pedro Mairal in conversation with Mauro Libetella and coordinated by Verónica Abdala; and the dialogues of writers and writers of Latin America, cured by Jorgelina Núñez. The indigenous word, dialogue with writers and original writers, the International Meeting of Oral Narration, which goes by its 28th edition, and the professional days that take place the three days before the beginning of the fair, this year are commemorated, the two decades of the death of the writer Juan José Saer and for that Reading will have it as the protagonist. On April 29, they will remember Santafesino reading him Mauricio Kartún, Ingrid Pelicori, Cristina Banegas, Alberto Díaz, Agustina Bazterric Becerra, Jorge Fernández Díaz, Ana Ojeda, Pablo Bernasconi, Sylvia Iparraguirre, Mempo Giardinelli, Eduardo Sacheri, Pedro Mairaral, Guillermo Martínez, Reynaldo Sietecase, Claudio Zeiger, Alejandra Kamiya, Horacio Convertini, Patricia Kolesnicov, Walter Lezcano, Andrés Neuman, Esther Cross, among many more names.
The Book Fair with accessible entries and a new relationship with the Government opens its doors tomorrow
