Port-au-Prince, June 13 (Prensa Latina) Livres en folie (Crazy Books) is a public service, Culture Minister Emmelie Prophète assured today at the opening of the 28th edition of Haiti’s largest literary fair.
Prophète, guest of honor at the 24th edition, encouraged the organizers to continue the initiative in favor of the country’s culture and sustainability.
The fair began this Monday with online sales of more than 1,200 books, while press conferences, exchanges with authors and book signings are scheduled as part of the event, which resumes some face-to-face activities after two years of the pandemic.
In fact, on Thursday, 108 authors will autograph a similar number of books at the Karibe Hotel in the capital, but the influx of people from other editions will be missed “because we don’t have the capacity at the Karibe Hotel to accommodate a large crowd,” lamented he. Frantz Duval, editor-in-chief of the newspaper Le Nouvelliste and one of the organizers of the fair.
Alongside literature, however, the public will have the opportunity to speak to writers on pressing issues such as the Constitution and insecurity, and to pay tribute to poet, politician and intellectual Jacques Stephen Alexis on his centenary. and to other authors such as Rony Gilot and Dieudonné Fardin, Duval noted.
They also organized meetings with the winners of the Deschamps Prize of the last two years, which they will attend together with this edition’s guests of honor: Pierre Raymond Dumas and Louis-Philippe Dalembert.
Launched in 1995 by the Nouvelliste, the main newspaper in Haiti, Livres en foile is considered one of the largest cultural events in the country, allowing dozens of writers to share their texts.
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