Book Fair will take place in Paris
24.03.2010
An annual Book fair will be held in Paris in the last days of March 2010. The «Open Ukraine» Foundation has provided travel grant to Ivan Ryabchiy, writer, translator, and journalist of the National Radio Company of Ukraine, who will attend the Fair. He takes to Paris a project of Ukrainian stand at the next Book Fair-2011. The project is supported by the «Open Ukraine» Foundation, the National Radio of Ukraine, the Association of Ukrainian Writers, the Small Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, the publishing house “Grani-T” and the magazine "Suchasnist". Russia will become the guest country of this year anniversary (the thirtieth) Book Fair, as in France 2010 is declared the Year of Russia. Above 90 prominent writers from around the world have been invited to this event widely known in the literary world. Among them are Umberto Eco (Italy), Edgar Hilsenrath (Germany), Peter James (UK), Imre Kertesz (Hungary), Yasmina Khadra (Algeria), Doris Lessing (UK), António Lobo Antunes (Portugal), Amélie Nothomb ( Belgium), Anna Robiyar (Canada), Salman Rushdie (Great Britain), Enrique Vila-Matas (Spain) and many others. Andriy Kurkov will attend the Paris Fair among Ukrainian writers. The Paris Book Fair is one of the largest book fairs in the world.
