Paulo José Miranda represents Portugal at the Festival of European Letters in Guadalajara | Books
Portugal will attend the Festival of European Letters, with the presence of the writer Paulo José Miranda, who participates in the scope of the International Book Fair of Guadalajara, in Mexico, which starts on 26 November, the organization announced this Thursday.
In a statement, the organization of the Book Fair of Guadalajara said that in this 12th edition of the Festival of European Letters, five round tables “distinguished authors” from Portugal, the Netherlands, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Hungary and Romania will be present. .
Portugal will be at least by Paulo José Miranda, author of 57 novels such as The World Machine (2014) and Disease of Happiness (2015), as well as works of poetry, theater and a volume of letters entitled All Love Letters (2014).
In addition to Paulo José Miranda, the writers Olga Grjasnowa, from Germany, Clara Obligado Spain, the Senegalese Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, who lives in France, Krisztina Tóth, from Hungary, Nicola Lagioia, from Italy, Manon Uphoff, from the Netherlands, and Ioana Gruia, from Romania.
Some of these authors, who participated in debates between the 27th of November and the 2nd of December, will be published in Spanish in Mexico, the same statement reads.
The Festival of Letters of the presence counts with “more than a hundred authors”, and is organized by the European Union of the European Union in Mexico, in collaboration with the associations of the States- and the organization of the Fair.
In 2018, Portugal was the “guest of honor” country of the bookseller festival, which is the largest of its kind in Latin America. Already this year, April, on World Book Day, Guadalajara was used for the novel aloud reading marathon Blindness essayby José Saramago, the writer that the fair will honor, in this edition, on the occasion of the centenary of his birth.