What happens when politicians and authorities of a "city of culture" let its book fair is terminated in the middle of absolute indifference?
few days ago, the president of the institution organizing the Feria del Libro de Trujillo (FLT), Adriana Doig Mannucci, announced that it will no longer conduct any more because ATAL lacked the money to implement it. The truth is that the premature death of a momentous event has gone largely unnoticed by private companies and government agencies linked culture, perhaps because the books do not represent anything for power, traditionally outside the knowledge and critical knowledge.
Fair had (it is unfortunate to use the past tense now) four versions and had become a benchmark for the Peruvian cultural process in the last decade. In the first three held in the plaza El Recreo, evoked the hundreds of thousands of visitors, as well as Latin American novelists and poets of the importance of Mario Vargas Llosa, Gonzalo Rojas, Laura Restrepo, Alfredo Bryce Echenique, Alonso Cueto and Carlos Monsivais . It was a cultural event, the date was made and had established links with publishers and centers of learning, impacted with great success in the media Trujillo and capital. His famous "I have witnessed this," he enthused writers and intellectuals including Chile, Mexico, Argentina, Colombia and Spain.
The idea of \u200b\u200borganizing a Fair began in 1998 between members of a book club sponsored by the former library Adriatic. While these read the most celebrated novel by Portuguese writer Jose Sarmago, television announced that the Swedish Academy had awarded the Nobel Prize. The news triggered a huge wave of optimism among the members of the Club, who decided to move forward with a fair only to afford to invite Trujillo characters as the author of Blindness . Over time, the dream became reality and utopia became daily work. While not able to bring Saramago as intended, the list of writers who came was very ambitious. For the fifth version of the FLT, the international guest was (now I can tell) the English philosopher Fernando Savater. In the secret list of expected waiting their turn Enrique Vila Matas and Milan Kundera, with whom preliminary contacts were established that were to bear fruit in subsequent years.
The ELF claimed from the beginning an investment of thousands of suns were obtained from the sale of stands and, above all, the patronage and sponsorship of public and private companies. The biggest expense is represented by the infrastructure because they do not have a fairground Trujillo was necessary to arm-appropriate for a few days, stands, halls and open environments for all events. Unfortunately, since 2008 the financial support began to dwindle until completely diluted in early 2010, despite promises and public statements of support from policy makers and entrepreneurs. Just to start the administrative machinery was required after 10 000 nuevos soles, which never could be obtained. A mea culpa of APTA is perhaps not have created the conditions for achieving financial independence and not to have strengthened ties with the few staff disinterested. In any case, nothing escape its responsibility to those who call themselves lovers and promoters of culture and Trujillo, however, leave the wrecked boat irremediablemente.Sin Fair FLT loses Trujillo that this event could be projecting the image of a modern, vibrant and connected to culture, lost local writers, who no longer have a reference for publications and presentations in his books, lost citizens who possessed a space for democratic dialogue, lost youth, who had the opportunity to see what the culture is not stationary and boring lose private and politicians, will lack both a chance to develop their "support" to the culture. In other words, without the Fair have started to get off the train of history. "This initiative will return someone with so much effort, responsibility and success by APTA? ----
few days ago, the president of the institution organizing the Feria del Libro de Trujillo (FLT), Adriana Doig Mannucci, announced that it will no longer conduct any more because ATAL lacked the money to implement it. The truth is that the premature death of a momentous event has gone largely unnoticed by private companies and government agencies linked culture, perhaps because the books do not represent anything for power, traditionally outside the knowledge and critical knowledge.
Fair had (it is unfortunate to use the past tense now) four versions and had become a benchmark for the Peruvian cultural process in the last decade. In the first three held in the plaza El Recreo, evoked the hundreds of thousands of visitors, as well as Latin American novelists and poets of the importance of Mario Vargas Llosa, Gonzalo Rojas, Laura Restrepo, Alfredo Bryce Echenique, Alonso Cueto and Carlos Monsivais . It was a cultural event, the date was made and had established links with publishers and centers of learning, impacted with great success in the media Trujillo and capital. His famous "I have witnessed this," he enthused writers and intellectuals including Chile, Mexico, Argentina, Colombia and Spain.
The idea of \u200b\u200borganizing a Fair began in 1998 between members of a book club sponsored by the former library Adriatic. While these read the most celebrated novel by Portuguese writer Jose Sarmago, television announced that the Swedish Academy had awarded the Nobel Prize. The news triggered a huge wave of optimism among the members of the Club, who decided to move forward with a fair only to afford to invite Trujillo characters as the author of Blindness . Over time, the dream became reality and utopia became daily work. While not able to bring Saramago as intended, the list of writers who came was very ambitious. For the fifth version of the FLT, the international guest was (now I can tell) the English philosopher Fernando Savater. In the secret list of expected waiting their turn Enrique Vila Matas and Milan Kundera, with whom preliminary contacts were established that were to bear fruit in subsequent years.
The ELF claimed from the beginning an investment of thousands of suns were obtained from the sale of stands and, above all, the patronage and sponsorship of public and private companies. The biggest expense is represented by the infrastructure because they do not have a fairground Trujillo was necessary to arm-appropriate for a few days, stands, halls and open environments for all events. Unfortunately, since 2008 the financial support began to dwindle until completely diluted in early 2010, despite promises and public statements of support from policy makers and entrepreneurs. Just to start the administrative machinery was required after 10 000 nuevos soles, which never could be obtained. A mea culpa of APTA is perhaps not have created the conditions for achieving financial independence and not to have strengthened ties with the few staff disinterested. In any case, nothing escape its responsibility to those who call themselves lovers and promoters of culture and Trujillo, however, leave the wrecked boat irremediablemente.Sin Fair FLT loses Trujillo that this event could be projecting the image of a modern, vibrant and connected to culture, lost local writers, who no longer have a reference for publications and presentations in his books, lost citizens who possessed a space for democratic dialogue, lost youth, who had the opportunity to see what the culture is not stationary and boring lose private and politicians, will lack both a chance to develop their "support" to the culture. In other words, without the Fair have started to get off the train of history. "This initiative will return someone with so much effort, responsibility and success by APTA? ----
Image: Taken from the magazine Letras Libres .
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