The National Library will hold on Sunday 7 November its Publishing Fair on the Juan José Soler esplanade.

With free entry (it is suspended in the event of bad weather), the public will be able to approach 14 a 19 hours in order to take advantage of the dissemination of an important and not always known part of contemporary local editorial production. It should be added that more than one hundred editorials will be part of this meeting.

In this way and through direct contact between the publisher and the reader, The National Library aspires to return to the traditional meaning of the fair as a space for exchange in which buying and selling are part of a larger cultural event that facilitates access to books..

Likewise, there will be a musical show, activities and a special space dedicated to comics and graphic humor.

Then, The sidewalk shows you the complete list of activities offered by the meeting.

14 a 18 hs. | Juan José Saer Esplanade

Activities for children and young people. They can learn and practice chess, put together your own book and learn more about how a written work is constituted, besides reading and painting.

15 hs. | Argentine Cartoon and Graphic Humor Center

Se introduces Hugo Pratt, the tano of Aldo Pavia. A book that covers the life of the Italian cartoonist, who lived in Argentina for a little over a decade and was one of the protagonists of the golden age of Argentine comics. The author dialogues with Meiji.

16 hs. | Juan José Saer Esplanade

Atomic World is introduced: an Argentine journal of scientific dissemination (1950-1955) de Clara Ruocco. The book won the Josefa Emilia Sabor Research Grant Competition organized by the National Library.

17 hs. | Argentine Cartoon and Graphic Humor Center

The communist girl and the guerrilla boy of María Giuffra is presented. The book tells, in cartoon format, la historia de diez niñas y niños hijos de militantes populares que fueron estigmatizados, broken down, hunted, exiled and in many cases tortured and murdered. The author dialogues with the witnesses.

18 hs. | Juan José Saer Esplanade

The payador Emanuel Gabotto is introduced. Gabotto was born in Dolores. His grandfather was a payador and his mother is the payadora Susana Repetto. It is one of the current benchmarks of improvisation in Latin America.