Barcelona, guest of honor at the Buenos Aires International Book Fair 2019

BThe program will highlight the Catalan city’s status as a publishing capital. Barcelona has added one more notch to its literary résumé after the city was named the guest of honor at the Buenos Aires International Book Fair in 2019.

Barcelona has added one more notch to its literary résumé after the city was named the guest of honor at the Buenos Aires International Book Fair in 2019. It is one of the most important book fairs on an international level, and one of the most well-known among those organized for Spanish language, along with the book fair of Guadalajara, Mexico, or the Liber book fair, which is alternately celebrated between Madrid and Barcelona.

"Cultural exchanges and exiles crossing between the two cities throughout history have formed a privileged relationship", affirms Joan Subirats, Barcelona City Council’s Culture Commissioner, and who received the testimony from the representatives of Montevideo. The City Council, together with the Ramon Llull Institute, the Catalonian Publishers’ Guild, and other agents from the sector will meet in the coming months to prepare the professional and cultural program which will be presented to the organizers.

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