Madrid Book Fair returns with a new edition on Friday, May 26. retirement park As acknowledged in the presentation made by the event director, Madrid, who had previously had a “discussion”, Eva Orueand Queen Letizia, who has been present at the swearing-in ceremonies in recent years, will not be able to count as regional elections are imminent.
“It’s been a difficult pressure to go through with a complex process and arguably”Orúe agreed, despite arguing that record numbers would be reached even before they started. For example, the editorial offering of this 82 edition is close to 1,000 stamps, with the stamps represented by the box-offices and distributors.
In total, there will be 361 stands for exhibitors in the rows of stands distributed throughout the fairground, and there will be 24 stands in the central rows; what was that less visible location and lower sales–.
On this occasion, three groups will go there (universities, faxes and countries with their own stands) people the organization has talked to before to be part of a “trial and error process”. This year’s assembly will total 1.3 million euros, with contributions ranging from 890,000 euros from exhibitors to 515,000 euros from sponsors, and 151,000 euros between the City Council and the Municipality of Madrid.
Part of the route will be covered with tarpaulins, but there will be no permanent awning – as a measure focused on alleviating the heat during rush hour. Although the Queen will not be present on this occasion, politicians led by Minister of Culture and Sports Miquel Iceta will attend the opening ceremony, which will be received by Madrid’s mayor, José Luis Martínez-Almeida.
Marta Rivera de la Cruz, Minister of Culture, Tourism and Sport of the Community of Madrid; Enrique Pascual President of the Madrid Book Fair; Maria Jose Galvez, General Director of the Ministry of Culture to Encourage Books and Reading; Begoña Villacís, deputy mayor of Madrid; and Andrea Levy, a delegate of the Department of Culture, Tourism and Sports of the Madrid City Council, will be other representatives of national and Madrid politics on this opening day.
independent publishers
The fair was marked by previous criticism from some independent publishers. Orúe told Europa Press, “attention” touch for example, it was started by three bookstores in Madrid that called it “The Fair Without Books” with ten publishers who were “absent” in the literary event.
However, she acknowledged that it was “weird” that they said “the future is pointing”. gradual decline in editorial availability” because “there are more editorials than last year”. “It is not true that there is a decrease in publications. We have more publishers than last year. A lot can be attributed to us, but saying that we want to reduce the number of publishers does not sound like one of them to me,” he assured.
booksellers Polifemo, Platformless El Rastro and Platformless Antón Martín They announced that between 20 May and 30 June, 10 publishing houses will exhibit their books and develop a program of cultural events. “It is a conclusion and wake-up call for the Madrid Book Fair to facilitate and encourage participation with the presence of willing publishers,” they detailed.
Orúe stressed several times that her organization is making “huge efforts” to accommodate small publishers who want to join. “I think there is only one publisher (Barrett) who asked to participate and exited the process. and then there is lower case, stated in a post on the website the reasons for not requesting to join. The rest did not request participation,” he said.
Ibáñez, Loyalty Award
Drawr Francisco Ibanez this edition will Loyalty Award To get to know her career — “before youtubers and influencers tested the show’s reception capacity, Ibáñez asked us for a tent for himself,” Orúe joked.
And for the first time there will be two spaces five signature fields (instead of the usual four) and two town halls for events: Casa de Fieras and Pabellón de los Jardines Cecilio Rodríguez. Regarding the invited country, it will be second after the previous one where it is not present — Colombia was the last country to join in this capacity in 2021.