The world of the book Prague 2021 will focus on French literature and the personality of Milan Kundera
My home is in. This is the motto for this year Book World Prague 2021. Through it, the program of the fair will be researched issues of identity, language and diversity not only in Czech literature. She earned special attention Poland, whose presentation last year due to the pandemic only limited and online. In addition to Poland, the program of the festival within the new section, it will also focus on Belarus.
“The issue of promoting freedom, democracy and human rights in the world has always had a place in the World of Books. We have decided to create a permanent Literature as the voice of freedom. It will focus on a country where literature has to cope with political pressure. It is selected this year Belarus“,” outlines the program novelty of playwright Guillaume Basset.
France as this year’s guest of honor
However, the focus this year will be on French literature in particular. France is this year’s guest of the fair. The name will also be inflected Milan Kundery, who was born in Brno but has lived in France for several decades. A prominent publisher, for example, will come to Prague to talk about Kundera Antoine Gallimard, which is not long with the writer after his arrival in Paris in the 70s. Personal friendship with Kundera also weighs another guest of this year Benoîta Duteurtre. There will also be readings by Milan Kundera, both in Czech and French.
Many other personalities of the French literary world promised personal participation in the fair. The name is already well known to Czech readers Laurenta Bineta. Bestseller author HHhHinspired by the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, this time he introduced a novelty Civilization, in which he embarked on the construction of alternative history. At the same time with a domestic writer Alena Mornštajnovawhich similarly plots in a bestseller November, meet at debates on Writer and Historical Fiction. The fair will bring a number of other interesting guests who zooms in a variety of French literature from fiction to children’s literature and comics to theater.
Book World Prague 2021 he also wants to remember this year the importance of meeting and reflecting on the impact of the pandemic on the entire book market. It will be different trendssuch as the increased interest in e-books and audiobooks. The Book World Prague 2021 will take place at the Exhibition Grounds in Holešovice from 23 to 26 September.
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