From June 6 to 9, 2024, the Historic Center will witness the second version of the Valledupar Book Fair, FELVA 2024, which can carry collectively writers, novelists, personalities and lovers of literature and writing nationwide. .
This model will handle present points and international consideration resembling local weather change, expertise and synthetic intelligence; inequality and poverty, well being, well-being and psychological well being. There can even be a chapter on regional and native historical past aimed toward extra creative expressions and Vallenato via conversations and workshops.
As an allusion to the tenth anniversary of the demise of Nobel Prize winner Gabriel García Márquez, there shall be an area to speak about his work ‘One Hundred Years of Solitude’, outlined by its creator as “a 400-page vallenato.”
At the Valledupar Book Fair, ‘La Vorágine’, by the Colombian author José Eustasio Rivera, thought of after García Márquez some of the influential authors of Colombian literature, can even be remembered. The work was printed in 1924 and denounces the system of exploitation to which employees within the rubber business had been subjected within the Amazon and Orinoco rivers. It was translated into completely different languages: Mandarin, German, Russian, and Romanian, amongst others. His centenary is widely known at FELVA 2024.
SPEAKERS
The Valledupar Book Fair could have native and nationwide audio system who shall be current within the workshops and conversations that can happen in numerous settings and colleges within the capital of Cesar.
Some of the confirmed native visitors are: Carlos César Silva, Miguel Barrios Payares, Osman Ospino Zárate, Melissa Lambraño Jaimes, William Jiménez, Alonso Sánchez Baute and Valentina Romero.
This yr there’ll as soon as once more be the presence of the previous vice chairman of the Republic and author, Humberto de la Calle Lombana, who will discuss with subjects of common and nation dialogue.
Another of the audio system would be the journalist María Jimena Duzán. She will contact on subjects associated to the current historical past of the nation.
The youth and erotic literature shall be in control of the Colombian author Eva Muñoz.
MORE SPEAKERS
The tv presenter of the ‘Show Caracol’ part of Noticias Caracol, Linda Palma will current her e-book ‘Life is gorgeous’, wherein she tells what it’s prefer to stay with the illness a number of sclerosis, from which she has suffered for a number of years.
Universal literature shall be addressed by the Colombian thinker Fernando Galindo via a convention at a college in Valledupar on tales from common literature. In addition, he’ll discuss with the work of the Russian author Anton Chekhov and the Portuguese José Saramago.
The Valledupar Book Fair, FELVA 2024, shall be inaugurated by Juan David Correa, Minister of Cultures, Arts and Knowledge on Thursday, June 6. The minister will give a convention on the novels ‘La vorágine’ and ‘One Hundred Years of Solitude’ within the morning after which, within the afternoon, he shall be on the opening ceremony.
RAISED 2024
The Valledupar Book Fair, FELVA 2024, shall be an occasion that can as soon as once more awaken curiosity in studying and writing within the ‘Capital of Vallenato’, the place spectators will certainly get pleasure from every of the conferences, workshops and the gorgeous settings of the Historic Center of Valledupar.
BY: LUCÍA MENDOZA CUELLO/EL PILÓN.