Some 100,000 visitors are expected to participate in the 24th bi-annual International Book Fair at the Jerusalem International Conference Center (Binyanei Ha-uma), where over 800 publishers and writers from Israel and around the world will display their books. The prestigious Jerusalem Prize, awarded to a writer whose work best expresses and promotes freedom of the individual in society, will be presented to renowned Japanese writer Haruki Murakami.
Book Fair Program Highlights:
Literary Café (an actual coffee shop at which Israeli and international writers will come together daily for discussions and interviews):
Monday-Thursday, February 16-19, 2009: 11:00-12:30 and 16:30-21:30
Monday-Thursday, February 16-19, 2009: Times vary.
Teddy Hall D
Librarian Day:
Tuesday, February 17, 2009: 10:00-13:00
Dulzin Hall
Children's World:
Monday-Thursday, February 16-19, 2009:
16:00-17:00: Story Reading (Hebrew)
17:00-18:00 Encounters with writers (Hebrew)
Program for Tuesday, February 17, 2009:
• 10.00 – 13.00 Librarian Day (Dulzin Hall)
• 11.00 – 12.15 ''Expositions'' - Thorvald Steen (Norway), Sandra Petrignani (Italy), Gyorgy Spiro, Peter Esterhazy (both Hungary) and Gabriel Chifu (Romania). English and Hebrew. Literary Café
• 11.30 – 13.00 ''The Law to Protect Writers and the Inherent Value of Books; in Israel?'' Panel session with writers and publishers from Israel and France to discuss the adoption of the ''French Fixed Book Price Law'' in Israel. In cooperation with the French Embassy and the Book Publishers Association of Israel. Participants: Jean-Guy Boin, President of BIEF - The Bureau for the International Promotion of French Books; Paul Otschakovsky, Catherine Clément, Yann Apperry, Nicolas Fargues, Dan Franck, Stephane Heuet, Charles Berberian and Atiq Rahimi. Moderator: Roselyne Déry. French and Hebrew. Teddy D. Hall
• 16.00 – Dan Lungu (Romania) reading from his last novel ''How To Forget A Woman''. Presents: Bogdan Alexandru Stanescu (Romania). Romanian. Romanian Stand
• 16.00 Dedication by Gyorgy Spiro (Hungary). Hungarian stand
• 17.00 Dedication by Peter Esterhazy (Hungary). Hungarian stand
• 17.00 – 18.30 ''Is it still difficult to speak about the Holocaust in Lithuania?'' Saulius Sužiedelis, Tomas Venclova, Irena Veisaite (all Lithuania) and Yitzhak Arad (Israel). Moderator: Leonidas Donskis (Lithuania). English. Teddy Hall D
• 17.00 – 18.00 ''Jewish Writing'' - Hagar Yanai (Israel) meets Joan Leegant (USA) and Yochi Brandes (Israel). English and Hebrew. Literary Café
• 17.00 – 18.00 Prof. Dr. Gennadi E. Kagon presenting his books ''Der Prohet im Frack - Theodor Herzl in Russian mission in the year 1903'' and ''Der Ruf aus Wien, - The Zion movement from T.Herzl under the Russian Tsar.'' German and Russian. Austrian Stand.
• 17.00 – 17.15 “Giorgio Bassani (Italy, 1916-2000) – A Writer, a City”. Screening of an interview with the writer by Anna Benassi. Italian. Italian Stand
• 17.30 ''My Teacher - Giorgio Bassani''. Conversation with Italian-born writer Corrado Israel De Benedetti (Israel). Hebrew. Italian Stand
• 18:00-19:00 ''Jerusalem. Ein Historisch- Politischer Stadtführer''. Gil Yaron (Israel) and Christoph Schult (Germany). German. German Stand
• 19.00 - ''Hebrew Writers of XX Century in Italy: Witnesses of Modernity''.Lecture by Prof. Marina Beer (Italy). English. Italian Stand
• 19.00 - 20.00 Najem Wali (Germany) and Sami Michael (Israel) -''Journey into the Heart of the Enemy''. English. Teddy Hall D
• 20.30 – 22.00 David Grossman hosting singers and friends. With Din-Din Aviv, Rona Keinan, David Peretz, Yoni Rechter, Dalia Shimko, Tamar Sidi and Eran Zur (all Israel). Hebrew. Literary Café. Seating limited.
Click on a day to see the full schedule of that day's book fair events:
Sunday / Day One
Monday / Day Two
Tuesday / Day Three
Wednesday / Day Four
Thursday / Day Five
Friday / Day Six
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