Adan Griego, curator for Iberoamerican Collections at Stanford University Libraries, was at the Bogotá 2013 Book Fair. He shares with us his experiences, the publishers that called his attention, the offerings of ebooks and tell us why Gabriel García Márquez is still dominating Colombia’s literary scene.

“The fair is divided into several pabellones, with some publishers having a presence at all of them, often confusing but also reminding a tired Californian of the variety of Colombia’s publishing output,” writes Griego. “This year Portugal was the featured country and fair publicity included several allusions to a sea of books that engulfed the reader.”

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