Embassy Information
Embassy Event
THE EMBASSY AT THE BUENOS AIRES BOOK FAIR
April 23 – May 11, 2009
The Embassy of the United Sates will be present once more at the 35th Buenos Aires International Book Fair. The Embassy booth will be dedicated to the relationship between literature and film. Novels turned into films, film criticism, film adaptation and children’s books, among other topics, will be exhibited at the booth. Image and words will blend through the projection of famous-film shorts based on literary works.
On the bicentennial of the birth of Edgar Allan Poe, the U.S. Embassy booth will also honor this great American writer.
As in previous editions, exhibited books will be donated to popular and academic libraries at the conclusion of the Fair.
The U.S. Embassy booth (no. 2122/2023) will be located at the Yellow Pavilion, street 35, between streets 8 and 10.
Activities at the Fair
This year, the U.S. Embassy will be offering a rich program of activities at the Fair.
Two celebrated American writers, Annie Proulx and Junot Díaz will be special Embassy guests at the Book Fair.
Annie Proulx, the renowned author of Brockeback Mountain and The Shipping News, which were successfully turned into film, and Pulitzer Prize Winner in 1994, will lecture on the relationship between literature and geography.
Junot Díaz, young Dominican-American writer and Pulitzer Prize Winner in 2008 for his first novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, will lecture on the immigrant experience in the United Sates.
American writers living in Argentina will lecture on script writing and the organization of writers’ groups.
The Day of the United States will be celebrated at the Fair on May 7, with the presentation of the Buenos Aires Cross Over Orquestra that will perform a special selection of film songs.
The Embassy has also prepared other activities at the booth. Talks by American writers living in Argentina will be given daily, both in Spanish and English languages, on an interesting variety of topics.
During the Annual Meeting of Librarians carried out during the Fair, specialist Kathy Mirescu will lecture on Information Arquitecture and The New Professional Roles of Librarians.
Ms. Else Hamayan, former director of the Illinois Resource Center in Arlington Heights, Illinois, will participate in the “Foreign Languages Seminar.”
