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 Thursday, February 19, 2009:
• 11.00 – 12.00 ''Alternative and Imagination History'' - Rana Verbin meets Alon Hilu and Yossi Sarid (all Israel). Hebrew. Literary Café
• 11.00 – 12.00 Renate Reichstein (Germany) - Seminar about the development of German children's literature, part I. German. German Stand
• 15.00 – 16.00 ''Crossed looks between Marius Schattner (Israel) ''Israël, l’autre conflit'' and Simon Epstein (Israel) ''Un paradoxe français''''. French. French Stand.
• 15.00 – 16.00 Renate Reichstein (Germany) – Presentation of Successful Children Books, for publishers. German. German Stand
• 15.00 – 17.00 Reading from Children Books. German. German Stand
• 16.30 – 17.30 Dan Benya Seri (Israel) reading from his new book. Hebrew. Literary Café
• 16.30 – 17.30 Launching of the book ''Tel-Aviv, ville sans répit''. In the presence of His Excellency Mr. Jean-Michel Caza, Ambassador of France to Israel. Followed by discussion with Ami Bouganim (Israel), Tobie Nathan (France) and others. Moderator: Roselyne Déry. French. French Stand.
• 17.00 – 17.30 Raul Teitelbaum (Israel) - “The Biological Solution”, Moderator: Moshe Zimmermann (Israel). German. German Stand
• 17.00 – 18.30 ''Language as an Existential Choice''. Markas Zingeris, Tomas Venclova, Icchokas Meras, Moderator: Leonidas Donskis (all Lithuania). English. Foyer Teddy Hall
• 17.30 – 18.00 Moshe Zimmermann (Israel) reading from his new book ''Germans against Germans – the Fate of the Jews 1938 -1945''. German. German Stand
• 17.30 – 18.30 ''Contemporary Literature''. Dror Mishani interviews Dror Burstein and Assaf Shor (All Israel). Hebrew. Literary Café.
• 18.00 – 19.00 Awarding of the France Israel Foundation Award to Alain Manbanckou for his book ''Verre cassé'' In the presence of the President of the Foundation and His Excellency Mr. Jean-Michel Caza, Ambassador of France to Israel. Teddy Hall D
• 18.00 Judit Frigyesi (Hungary) presenting her books. Hungarian stand
• 19.00 - 20.00 ''Literature in Inspiration of Religion and Faith'' - Mary Gordon (USA), Michal Govrin and Haviva Pedaya (Both Israel). English. Literary Café
• 19.30 – 20.30 ''Esperanto and Zamenhof: Why an ''International Language''''. Prof. Amri Wandel (Israel). Hebrew. Teddy Hall D
• 20.30 – 21.30 Meir Shalev (Israel) speaking on his writing. 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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