MORE LITERARY FIGURES CONFIRM THEIR PRESENCA AT THE THIRD EDITION OF EXPOLIBRO  

The Colombian Book Chamber and the Book Fair signed an agreement

Expolibro was present in the month of April at the International Book Fair in Bogota with a stand and a delegation of organizers who represent Ecuador.  Here, they solidified relations with all those people who are associated with arts and literary arts.  

Part of this agreement was the determination that both fairs would cooperate with each other, through stands and agreements that encourage the flow of visitors and presenters from both countries.  Likewise, the Colombian Book Chamber, the organizer of this neighboring country’s book fair, will be at Expolibro this year.  Their 21 years of experience has resulted in a fair that the international guild considers to be in one of the best in the world and the Andean region.  

Progress with the Book Law
With support of CERLALC-UNESCO, a team that is part of the EXPOLIBRO Organizing Committee is currently working on a rough draft of a law that has been in its preliminary stage for two years.  The law is adjusted to Ecuador’s reality and needs, and if passed, will become Ecuador’s new BOOK LAW.  Soon, it will be presented to the National Assembly so that they can study, debate and approve it.   

Mexico will be at the Fair
In recently held conversations, Guayaquil’s Mexican Consul, Rodolfo Quilantán, confirmed the presence of this sister Republic with a stand that will present Mexican literary material, culture and customs.  Invitations to Mexican authors have also been made through the diplomatic delegation to Carlos Fuentes,  Heraclio Zepeda, Carlos Monsivaís Aceves and  Roberto Gómez Bolaños (Chespirito).  The fair awaits their reply.

International Writers
Following confirmation from authors Marcelo Figueras and Andrés Neuman Galán from Argentina, Mario Bellatín  (Mexican-Peruvian) and Mario Campaña, Ecuadorian who resides in Madrid and who has great influence in the literary world, the fair awaits a response from the invitations that were extended to Mario Vargas Llosa, Daniel Samper Pizano and Rosa Montero, amongst other popular writers.

New Authors

We are pleased to inform that the following authors will also join us at Expolibro 2008:

Fernando Soto Aparicio (Santa Rosa de Viterbo, Boyacá - ) Teacher who is a poet, writer and screenwriter for Colombian television.  Fernando Soto was born on October 11, 1933.  According to some sources, he was born in Socha and not in Santa Rosa de Viterbo.

In August of 1950, Soto published his first work, called Hymn to the Motherland.  In 1960, he won an international prize in Madrid for his novel The Blessed and in 1962 the Spanish Language Selection Prize for his work The Rebellion of the Rats.  He also won the House of the Americas Prize in 1970 and the City of Murcia Prize in 1971.

Montserrat del Amo (Madrid, 1927) is a Spanish author who writes children’s literature.  Bachelor of Philosophy and Arts, he has given numerous talks and conferences about literature for children and oral narration.  He has also written plays.  The Knot, one of his most popular works, created a small revolution in the area of children’s literature due to the use of contrasted structures that imply more suggested meaning than explicit meaning, as well as resources like the blank page.  The Painted House.  Illustrated by Francisco Solé.  Madrid: SM, 1990.  Selected by the Germán Sánchez Ruipérez Foundation as one of the one hundred best Spanish children’s books of the twentieth century.

Fernando Ayala Poveda, (Tunja, Colombia, 1951) Narrator, Essayist, Journalist for Colombian National Radio, author of forty-four books.  He studied Literature and Education at the Javeriana Pontifical University and Languages at the National University of Colombia.  He travelled to France and Spain to specialize in Literature.  He has been a professor of Literature, Economical History and Sociology.

Ayala Poveda’s work is a milestone in contemporary narratives for children.  At a very young age, he chose to follow the arts to mold his spirit, which is where he derived his vocation for stories that are full of music, humor, celebration and tenderness.  Each of his tales celebrates the communion of school, the cosmic tree, white horses and the sand clock, where time was given to men so they may be happy resides.

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