This is the 30th edition of the International Book Fair in Miami.
It takes place each November at the Wolfson Campus of Miami Dade College (located at 300 NE 2nd Avenue). This year's festival will be from Sunday November 17th through Sunday November 24th, 2013.
This International Book Fair is one of most interesting event in the cultural landscape.
Miami held its first book fair, called Books by the Bay, in 1984. The two-day street fair grown steadily each year and by the 1990s, the renamed Miami Book Fair International had become the largest literary festival in the country.
The eight-day book party attracted hundreds of thousands of book lovers to downtown Miami every November for a celebration of all things written and read.
The Fair, in its 30th year, will open Sunday November 17th with the popular Evenings With… six nights of readings and discussions with noted authors from the United States and around the world.
The highlight of the Street Fair is the Festival of Authors, with more than 350 authors reading and discussing their work, including the Latin American and Spanish authors who participate in the IberoAmerican Authors Program.
On Friday, the Street Fair gets under way.
Thousands of South Florida schoolchildren will help kick off the Street Fair, making the trip downtown Friday to hear authors and participate in Children’s Alley activities, including theater, arts-and-crafts, storytelling and readings by children’s book authors.
Comics and Graphic Novels are once again featured, with the school of comics on Friday and a new section just for kids and teens, as well as presentations over the weekend by renowned graphic novelists and illustrators.
During Street Fair weekend, more than 250 publishers and booksellers exhibit and sell books, with special features like the antiquarians, who showcase of signed first editions, original manuscripts and other collectibles.
In 2001, the Fair became part of The Center for Literature and Theatre @ Miami Dade College, a cultural and academic initiative that promotes the advancement and appreciation of literature throughout the year.
To find a panorama so vast and interesting activities and news all united under the same sky is something that is not to be missed!
For more information you can also visit: http://www.miamibookfair.com/
Alice Willi
