The Madrid Book Fair will host tributes to Mario Vargas Llosa, Carmen Martín Gaite, Federico García Lorca, Paul Auster, Ana María Matute and Gabriela Mistral in its 84th edition, ..
and will include the participation of New York writers in numerous literary activities. Queen Letizia will inaugurate the fair on May 30.
Thus, the city of New York will "illuminate" the event -which has more and more international presence-, according to the delegate of the Cultural Division of the City Council of Madrid, Marta Rivera de la Cruzy. New York authors such as Vivian Gornick, Teju Cole, Rebecca Solnit, Garth Greenwell, Catherine Lacey, Junot Díaz, Lucy Sante, Katie Kitamura and Eliot Weinberger will be attending the fair at the Retiro Park.
