For Juan Cruz, the success of FIL can be summarized in a Shakespeare's motto “Here comes everybody.” As Cruz explains, seeing what happens at FIL, and how it happens, everybody comes to the event, the epicenter of the Latin American and international literature, which has become the best thing that could happen to the continent, the Spanish-language and the adjacent languages and universes.

The Guadalajara International Book Fair ends tomorrow, and in El País' column, Juan Cruz reflects on the meeting place that FIL has become, for Latin American and international literature.

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