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The Seventh Dominican Book Fair in New York is Announced <\/SPAN><\/STRONG> T<\/SPAN>he 7th Dominican Book Fair in New York will be held on September 27-29, 2013, at the Boricua College in Manhattan. The Minister of Culture of the Dominican Republic, Jos\u00e9 Antonio Rodr\u00edguez, will lead a delegation of prominent writers who will participate in it. <\/P> The announcement was made by the Dominican Commissioner of Culture in the United States, Mr. Carlos S\u00e1nchez, who said that this year the Fair will take a new step in consolidating itself as the most important cultural event of the Quisqueyana community based outside of the island. The event will have a wide and varied program of activities, including book presentations, conferences, forums, film screenings, and original plays that will stage patriotic celebrations. Furthermore, the play Hay un pa\u00eds en el mundo<\/EM> (There is a country in the world), directed by Joel Almon\u00f3, will be staged at the closing ceremony of the Fair. The director will travel from Lawrence, Massachusetts, to be present. <\/P> The Fair will be dedicated to writer Ren\u00e9 Rodr\u00edguez Soriano, winner of the National Short Story Award, for the quality of his narrative, high poetry and his efforts in favor of the dissemination and promotion of Dominican and Latin American literature through the portals: http:\/\/mediaisla.net\/revista<\/A> and http:\/\/rodriguesoriano.net\/<\/A><\/P> With the slogan \u201cReading sets you free,\u201d the Fair, which is attended by thousands of people every year, will provide the U.S. Spanish-speaking community the opportunity to come into contact with the rich and diverse Dominican literature.<\/P> The Minister of Culture will lead a commission composed by Carlos Salcedo, Chief of Cabinet at the Ministry of Culture, and outstanding literary and artistic figures of the Dominican culture, among them: writers Andr\u00e9s L. Mateo, who will participate with Franklin Guti\u00e9rrez in a panel on the life and work of Ram\u00f3n Marrero Aristy; Basilio Belliard, who will lecture about Dominican poetry; and Le\u00f3n F\u00e9lix Batista, who will participate in a discussion about Pedro Mir, and will present the winners of the Premios Letras de Ultramar<\/EM> (Ultramar Prizes for Literature). <\/P> Other participants are: Miguel Collado, who will launch his work Visi\u00f3n de Hostos sobre Duarte<\/EM>; Pedro Antonio Valdez, who will present the video \u201cLas maletas de papel: escrituras del reeinmigrante (Paper suitcases: writings of the re-immigrant);\u201d Valent\u00edn Amaro, will make a poetry reading; Ylonka Nacidit, will make a presentation on Hilma Contreras; Marcio Veloz Maggiolo, winner of the National Award, will launch a new novel; and the President of Patriotic Celebrations will make a presentation through videos on the topics \u201cEl nacimiento de una naci\u00f3n (The birth of a nation)\u201d and \u201cEl Grito de Capotillo (The Cry of Capotillo).\u201d <\/P> This year the Fair will honor Dominican writers living in Illinois. The delegation is led by Rafael N\u00fa\u00f1ez and Jochy Herrera. <\/P> The Commissioner\u2019s guest list includes writers Avelino Stanley, Juan Freddy Armando, Rafael Chaljub Mej\u00eda, Alejandro Hiraldo, Eugenio Garc\u00eda Cuevas, Farah Hallal, and Carlos Roberto G\u00f3mez, Director of the Isla Negra publishing company, who will mount an exhibit and book sale and will participate in several book readings. Mateo Morrison, winner of the National Award, and Rosalina Benjam\u00edn, will also attend. <\/P> The list of writers, cultural activists and special guests includes Abril Troncoso, C\u00e9sar Zapata, Eddy Mateo V\u00e1squez, Efra\u00edn Marte, Felipe Mar\u00eda Morel, Erasmo Lara, and Xiomarita P\u00e9rez, among others. <\/P> As in previous years, a large number of prominent Dominican writers and cultural activists residing abroad will participate in the Fair with book presentations, readings and lectures. Among them: Rub\u00e9n S\u00e1nchez F\u00e9liz, C\u00e9sar S\u00e1nchez Beras, Irenes Santos, Orisis Mosquea, Osiris Vallejo, Kianny Antigua, Karina Rieke, Ynoemia Villar, Maricela Mart\u00ednez, Franklin Guti\u00e9rrez, Ana Arelys Cruz Carvajal, Sussi Santana, Andrea Villarroel, Xiomara P\u00e9rez, Mirelle Palmansa, Gladys Montol\u00edo, and Gabriela Gratereaux.<\/P> Other participants will be Mary Ely Gratereaux, Carmen Lazala, Yira P\u00eda S\u00e1nchez Brugal, Keiselim Mont\u00e1s, F\u00e9lix Garc\u00eda, Marybelle Ferreira, Eduardo Lantigua, Grecia Pe\u00f1a, Marianela Ure\u00f1a, Elizabeth Balaguer, Medar Serrata (Michigan), Stuard A. McKeever, Yrene Santos, Ana Isabel Saillant, Esteban Torres, Anthony Stevens, Jorge Araujo (Connecticut), Frank B\u00e1ez, Anastacio Jim\u00e9nez, Arsenio Zapata, Bernarda D\u00e1vila, Betzab\u00e9 Cifuentes, C\u00e9sar F. Peralta, Jos\u00e9 Leandro Mora, Doria Beatriz Casta\u00f1edo, Francisco S\u00e1nchez, Frank Castro, Gilberto Penzo, Jos\u00e9 Cabrera, Jos\u00e9 I. Rodr\u00edguez, and Lucila Rutinel Dom\u00ednguez, among others. <\/P> The Fair will feature innovative events such as the Children and Youth Pavilion, by writer Elizabeth Balaguer; the Film Pavilion, by Billy Martin, Mariluz Acosta, and Freddy Vargas, which will include a festival of Dominican short films, in addition to discussions and workshops on cinema; and the Crafts Pavilion, with artisans from the Dominican Republic and other Latin American countries. <\/P> The Fair will also include folklore, with presentations by Dominican and Peruvian troupes, and the Honduran Garifuna community. <\/P> The event will begin on Friday, September 27th, at the United Palace Grand Theatre, with presentations on patriotic celebrations: the 150th Anniversary of the Restoration of the Republic; the Bicentennial of the Birth of Juan Pablo Duarte; the 50th Anniversary of the Government of Juan Bosch; as well as the Centennial of the Birth of national poet Pedro Mir and of storytellers Hilma Contreras and Ram\u00f3n Marrero Aristy, and the 50th Anniversary of the armed uprising of Manolo Tav\u00e1rez Justo and the political group June 14 in Las Manaclas, in San Jos\u00e9 de las Matas. <\/P> According to S\u00e1nchez, a hall will also be dedicated to these national celebrations, where symposia and conferences will take place, and there will also be a hall on the Historical Memory in remembrance of prominent personalities of the Dominican Republic, such as Juan Bosch, Jos\u00e9 Francisco Pe\u00f1a G\u00f3mez, Manolo Tav\u00e1rez Justo, Pedro Mir, Hilma Contreras, Ram\u00f3n Marrero Aristy, Gregorio Luper\u00f3n, Am\u00edn Abel Hasb\u00fan, Homero Hern\u00e1ndez, and Jes\u00fas Dipl\u00e1n.<\/P> \u201cRepresentatives of the Museum of the Resistance will also participate in the Fair and will make a presentation on their work,\u201d the Commissioner said. <\/P> S\u00e1nchez revealed that the Book Fair Prize will be awarded for the third time to a work that does not fall in the creative literature category, that is written by a Dominican residing outside the Dominican Republic, and that has been launched at the Commissioner\u2019s Andr\u00e9s Francisco Requena Events Hall. <\/P> The winners of the literature contest for high school students, under the direction of Miguel An\u00edbal Perdomo, the Commissioner\u2019s literary manager, and under the coordination of writer Rub\u00e9n S\u00e1nchez F\u00e9liz, will also be announced. <\/P> \u201cOur goal is to encourage those high school kids to nurture the wonderful world of literature and to visit the Fair and participate in it and to meet the professional writers,\u201d S\u00e1nchez said. <\/P> During the month of September, the Commissioner will conduct pre-Fair activities, which include two events at Professor Juan Bosch square on Sunday, the 8th and the 15th of September, respectively; a conference on September 21st in Lawrence, Massachusetts, by the President of Patriotic Celebrations, Juan Daniel Balc\u00e1cer, on the Bicentennial of Juan Pablo Duarte; another conference at the Cervantes Institute on the work of Pedro Mir, which will take place on the 26th of this month, by Jos\u00e9 Rafael Lantigua; and, a film series coordinated by the organizers of the Fair\u2019s Film Pavilion. <\/P> \u201cI invite the community to massively support the Fair and the pre-Fair activities in order to continue enhancing this event that continues to grow year after year,\u201d Commissioner Carlos S\u00e1nchez said in his closing remarks. <\/P><\/TD><\/TR><\/TBODY><\/TABLE><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Seventh Dominican Book Fair in New York is Announced New York, 09\/12\/2013 The 7th Dominican Book Fair in New York will be held on September 27-29, 2013, at the Boricua College in Manhattan. 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