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Yucatan International Reading Fair 2024: from March 10 to 17

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Discover the offer that the International Reading Fair brings in Mérida this 2024.

A posthumous tribute to Mexican journalist Cristina Pacheco and recognition to writer David Toscana are some of the 600 activities that Filey brings this year. It will be held from March 10 to 17 at the Siglo XXI Convention Center.

With an invitation to “read with the five senses” and an offer of 600 activities, the Yucatán International Reading Fair (Filey) will celebrate its twelfth edition from March 10 to 17 in Mérida.

This year, the literary meeting organized by the Autonomous University of Yucatán (UADY) which has established itself as a reference for the promotion of reading in Southeast Mexico will host 120 exhibitors at the Siglo XXI Convention Center, in addition to a series of activities with authors, journalists and reading promoters.

“We hope to offer more than 600 activities that include the presence of prominent authors, literary and academic activities, holding workshops to promote reading, performing arts, and visual and cinematographic arts shows. We will hold colloquiums, cycles, and conferences, all of them with the perspective of reading with our five senses and, why not, also invoking the sixth sense,” said María Teresa Mézquita Méndez, general director of the Filey.

The fair will begin with the presentation of the 2024 “José Emilio Pacheco” Excellence in Letters Award to the Monterrey writer David Toscana, “whose letters, expressed in a variety of genres, match the unique Mexican with the universal language,” highlighted Mézquita Méndez.

As previously mentioned, Filey will remember the journalist and writer Cristina Pacheco, who recently passed, in a posthumous tribute.

Among the invited authors, the Peruvian Gustavo Rodríguez, the Chilean Alejandro Zambra, as well as Juan Villoro, Carmen Boullosa, Liliana Blum, Guadalupe Nettel, Mónica Lavín, Dahlia de la Cerda, among others, stand out.

This year, the Fair will also present the 2024 Filey National Journalism Award to cultural journalist Yanet Aguilar Sosa, reporter at the newspaper El Universal. “With a 30-year career in various spaces of journalism, she has endorsed her conviction to address problems of the cultural policies of our country,” highlighted the director of the fair.

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