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 Monday, February 16, 2009:
• 11.00 - 12.30 ''Vilnius – A Place of Dialogue between Jewish and Lithuanian Cultures''. Tomas Venclova, Laimonas Briedis, Laima Lauckaite, Irena Veisaite, Moderator: Mindaugas Kvietkauskas. (All Lithuania). English. Literary Café
• 14.30 – 15.00 Dedication of Yann Apperry and Nicolas Fargues (Both France). French. French Stand
• 15.00 – 16.00 Meeting with Dan Franck. Moderator: Denise Berrebi (Both France). French. French Stand
• 16.00 – 17.00 ''Mémoire'', Catherine Clément (France) - Discussion between Tobie Nathan (France) and Catherine Clément. French. French stand
• 16.00 -17:00 Dieter Kuehn (Germany) reading from his book “Gertrud Kolmar; Life and Work, Time and Death”. German. Teddy Hall D
• 16.00 ''Norman Manea - Complete Works''. With Bogdan Alexandru Stanescu, Leon Volovici and Riri Manor (All Romania). Romanian. Romanian Stand
• 16.30 – 17.30 Meir Shalev (Israel) meets Lars Saabye Christensen (Norway), English and Hebrew. Literary Café
• 17.00 – 18.00 Atiq Rahimi (France) introducing his book Syngue Sabour. Moderator: Roselyne Déry. French and Hebrew. French Stand
• 17.00 - 18:30 Thomas Sparr (Germany) and Orna Porath (Israel) reading from ''Ingeborg Bachmann – Paul Celan. Herzzeit. Correspondence/ Der Briefwechsel''. German. Teddy Hall D
• 17.30 – 18.00 ''Hungarian Tunes with a 2009 Flavor'' - Performance of DJ Bem and Luca Kezdy (violin). Greetings by Katalin Bogyay, State Secretary of the Hungarian Ministry of Education and Culture. In the presence of His Excellency Mr. Zoltán Szentgyörgyi, the Ambassador of Hungary to Israel. Literary Café
• 17.30 ''Friend of Jerusalem Award'' to Jonathan Galassi (USA) and Eri Steimatzky (Israel). English and Hebrew. The Jerusalem Municipality.
• 18.30 – 19.30 Dror Mishani (Israel) meets Yann Appery, Nicolas Fargues (both France) and Marek Krajewski (Poland). French and Polish. Translation to Hebrew. Literary Café
• 19:00 – 19:45 Stefan Weidner (German) presenting ''Manual for the Clash of Civilisations''. English. German Stand
• 19.30 - 20.30 Dedication by Gyorgy Konrad (Hungary). Hungarian stand
• 19.45 – 20.15 Amos Oz (Israel) meets Roberto Calasso (Italy). English. Literary Café
• 20.30 – 21.30 Amos Oz (Israel) reading from his new book. Followed by singer Ronit Ophir (Israel). Hebrew. Literary Café
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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