The Fair offers a 20-days-long Literary Festival that has become a meeting place for all readers. It carries out a complete cultural program including conferences, readings, workshops and book presentations.

Every year, we are proud to announce the visit of outstanding authors: Paul Auster, John M. Coetzee, Henning Mankell, Ray Bradbury, Isabel Allende, Mario Vargas Llosa and Wilbur Smith are only some of the great writers who’ve already been part of the Fair´s cultural program. Furthermore, the Fair offers special activities for targeted audiences like teachers, librarians, translators, etc.

Professional Sessions

24 – 26 April 2018

Before opening its doors to the general public, the Buenos Aires Book Fair develops the Professional Sessions. More than 12,000 professionals –publishers, distributors, booksellers, literary agents, translators, illustrators, graphic designers and printers, educators and librarians– gather for three days of intense training and business around the Latin American publishing industry.
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Cultural Programme

From April 26 to May 14, 2018

The Buenos Aires Book Fair is a cultural stage where is displayed a highly-variated agenda, including over 1.500 activities and the participation of several of the most acknowledged referents of the book industry.
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Guest City of Honor 2018: Montevideo

One of the Latin American cities with the highest tradition and cultural production.
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