Friday, August 13, 2010

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Book Biennial of Sao Paulo today presents 800 works by publishers

until 22 August, a total of 350 Brazilian and international exhibitors will gather at the twenty-first edition of the event, in a pavilion of 60 thousand square meters located in the convention center of Anhembi, in the north of the city.

The Book Biennial of Sao Paulo, the biggest publishing event in Brazil, started yesterday with a program that seeks to bring the letters with other disciplines such as food and this year has the presence of the Iranian writer Azar Nafisi and Norwegian Jostein Gaarder.

until 22 August, a total of 350 Brazilian and international exhibitors will gather at the twenty-first edition of the event, in a pavilion of 60 thousand square meters located at the Anhembi Convention Center, in northern the city.

Organizers expect about 700 thousand people to ride in the coming days for jobs of the 800 publishing houses represented at the fair, according to a note by the organization.

space for debates in the Hall of Ideas "intervene including the Iranian Azar Nafisi, author of" Reading Lolita in Tehran ", the Portuguese João Lopes Marques, author of" Saramago: Biography, "the Irishman John Boyne, responsible the hit "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas" and the Norwegian author Jostein Gaarder.

involved also important Portuguese-language authors as José Eduardo Agualusa Angolan, Mozambican Mia Couto and the Portuguese filmmaker Miguel Gonçalves Mendes, director of the unreleased documentary "Jose and Pilar on the relationship between the late Nobel laureate José Saramago and his widow, Pilar del Río English.

will also be a space dedicated to analyzing the state of the Portuguese language in the world.

The event comes a week after the Paraty International Literary Festival (FLIP), which was held in the Brazilian city, which spent about 15 thousand people and had as special guests at the British of Indian origin and Salman Rushdie Chilean author Isabel Allende.

Despite the agenda of events dedicated to promoting the enjoyment of reading, Brazilians are still far from other countries in the habit of reading and average reading 4.7 pounds per year, including learning and reading volumes required, according to industry data.
Sao Paolo, Brazil

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