International Book Fair kicks off in Germany

LEIPZIG. In the German "city of fairs" - Leipzig on Wednesday evening, March 11, the opening of the international book fair. Until March 15, more than 2 thousand exhibitors will present their new programs and publications, about 3 thousand cultural events will be held. Israel was the guest of honor at the book forum this year.

About 230 thousand visitors to the fair are expected to receive the organizers. A whole delegation of writers, writers and representatives of various publishing houses arrived from the guests of honor of the forum. The motto of the Leipzig Book Fair this year is directly related to the guest of honor and sounds like “1965 - 2015. Germany - Israel”. The main theme of the fair was the history of half a century of diplomatic relations between Germany and Israel. During the forum, German writers will discuss with the Israeli writers Lizzy Doron, Avi Primor, Amos Oz, Meir Shalev and Ron Seagal the future, present and past of these two countries.

Also, as part of the ongoing fair in Leipzig, the literary festival “Leipzig reads” was launched. More than three thousand events will be held at four hundred venues in the city - quizzes, entertainment events and concerts, games for children and adolescents, discussion clubs, presentations of novelties of fiction and non-fiction. Meetings of writers with readers, at which readings of excerpts from their own works will be organized, will take place in bookstores, schools, libraries and even catering outlets.

It is worth noting that the literary festival “Lit.Cologne” also started in Cologne on March 11, but it is slightly inferior in scale to the Leipzig reads forum. About two hundred events, among which meetings will be organized with real pen meters - T.K. Boyle, Michelle Welbeck and Jussi Adler-Olsen, who recently received one of the most prestigious prizes in the field of the detective genre, will be held as part of the event.

Svetlana Korableva © Gallerix.ru