What is FILBo?įILBo is one of South America’s largest book fairs, a wonderland for bookworms to peruse and buy among the hundreds of stalls and millions of books while attending talks and workshops with their favourite authors. This year’s edition, FILBo 2017, will run from April 25 to May 8. The epithet really comes into its own at this time of year when the Bogotá International Book Fair – universally known by its Spanish acronym, FILBo – takes over the whole of the massive Corferias exhibition centre. This city has been called “the Athens of Latin America” by way of analogy to the Greek capital as a centre of classical learning (if sadly not to its Mediterranean climate). Bookworms that we are, we open the pages of FILBo 2017 and say bonjour to the continent’s biggest celebration of reading. This year it’s celebrating 30 years, and we ask how to get the most out of the region’s biggest book fair? Christopher Outlaw gets some expert opinions. FILBo 2017, the 30th edition of Colombia’s biggest book fair will run from April 25 to May 8.
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