[NYTr] Cuba at Guadalajara Book Fair, Biggest Spanish-Lang Literary Event

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Cuba Participates in Book Fair of Guadalajara

Havana, Nov 26 (acn) Cuba is participating in the 21st International 
Book Fair of Guadalajara that opened last Saturday in this Mexican city.

Representing the island in this fair, considered the biggest meeting in 
the world of Spanish-language literature, are Eduardo Heras Leon, Marta 
Rojas, Aida Bahr, Alberto Garrandes and Ricardo Alberto Perez, all 
winners of awards in several events.

A special moment for the Cuban delegation takes place on Monday with 
the presentation of the 17th International Book Fair of Havana 
scheduled for February 2008 and the launching of the book 'Desde la 
soledad y la esperanza' (From Loneliness and Hope), dedicated to the 
five Cuban anti-terrorist fighters who remain unjustly imprisoned in 
the United States and written by 18 outstanding authors from the 
Caribbean island.

The prologue of the book was written by prestigious poet and essayist 
Roberto Fernandez Retamar while the author of the epilogue is Ricardo 
Alarcon de Quesada, President of the Cuban Parliament.

Cuba is also represented at the Fair of Guadalajara by nearly 20 
editors, specialists and literature promoters and by several titles 
from 14 publishing houses, including 'Cien horas con Fidel' (A Hundred 
Hours with Fidel) by French-Spanish journalist Ignacio Ramonet.

On this occasion, the Book Fair of Guadalajara, which will run until 
December 2nd, is dedicated to Colombia and it is being attended by more 
than 1,600 publishing houses from 39 countries.

This is the eighteenth international book fair in which Cuba 
participates this year and in most of them it has been accompanied by 
Venezuela in virtue of a bilateral cultural agreement signed by the two 
countries.