The 31st edition of the Gaudeamus Radio Romania Book Fair will kick off Wednesday, at the Romexpo exhibition centre, offering, until Sunday, a true "literary feast," designed to satisfy the highest demands.
The honorary president of this year's edition of the fair is writer Mircea Cartarescu.
Over 200 participants, hundreds of events and tens of thousands of titles, many of them presented for the first time, bring together book lovers at the Gaudeamus Radio Romania, a cultural event financed by the Ministry of Culture.
The Humanitas Group announces an offer of over 1,000 titles and an opportunity for readers to meet authors such as Ana Blandiana, Gabriel Liiceanu, Mircea Cartarescu, Andrei Plesu, Horia-Roman Patapievici, Thierry Wolton, Ioana Nicolaie, Radu Paraschivescu, Stefano Bottoni, Tatiana Niculescu, Andreea Rasuceanu, Augustin Cupsa and other beloved writers.
In its turn, the Polirom publishing house offers a series of novelties in its main collections and also an opportunity for its readers to meet with important writers such as Gabriela Adamesteanu, Radu Aldulescu, Simona Antonescu, Magda Carneci, Ruxandra Cesereanu, Vasile Ernu, Ana Maria Sandu sau Radu Vancu. One of the most important books to be launched by this publishing house will be "Paul Cornea, Journal (1933-2017)," edited by Petrus Costea.
The most recent titles published in the "Polirom Library" collection will also be launched at the fair, belonging to renowned writers from world literature, as well as leading contemporary authors: Albert Camus, Haruki Murakami, Cormac McCarthy, Serge Joncour, Maryse Conde, Philippa Gregory, Donatella Di Pietrantonio, Claire Kilroy, Sandra Newman, Colin Barrett.
The Nemira publishing house presents over 40 new titles at the 31st edition of the Gaudeamus Book Fair .
Nemira Fiction, a contemporary fiction collection launched this fall, proposes well-known authors, such as Muriel Barbery, with the novel "A Single Rose," or Mathias Enard, with "Tell Them of Battles, Kings and Elephants" or with "The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers' Guild."
The novelties in the n'autor collection coordinated by Eli Badica at the same publishing house are the literary debut of Ioana Unk and Liviu Ornea's third book of literature, "O geometrie a tandretei"/"A Geometry of Tenderness."
Over 15 titles from the "Anansi. World Fiction" portfolio, an imprint of the Trei publishing house, await lovers of universal literature, among which a new edition of the novel "By Night in Chile," the book that made writer Roberto Bolano well known on the international literary scene, "Slouching Towards Bethlehem" - the first nonfiction volume by writer Joan Didion, a new edition of the novel "Istanbul Istanbul," inspired by the writer Burhan Sonmez's own experience of detention (Burhan Sonmez being also the president of PEN International), "The Silence" - an original translation of the work of Don DeLillo, one of the titans of today's American literature.
Also included in the Trei offer are "Love in the Time of Revolution," the second volume of the Ottoman Quartet by Turkish writer Ahmet Altan, the second volume of the literary project "I Is Another. Septology" by Jon Fosse, the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2023, and "The Third Light," by Claire Keegan.
The Romanian Cultural Institute will be present at the Gaudeamus Book Fair again this year with an attractive programme of events, debates and book launches, as well as a generous offer of books and albums with special prices. Thus, on Friday, the Institute will host a debate dedicated to the current challenges of translation, featuring translators Iulia Gorzo, Laure Hinckel and Anca Maria Panoiu, which will be moderated in their dialogue by writer and translator Bogdan Ghiu. Also on Friday, a roundtable discussion entitled "A History in Motion. Romanian Literature 35 years after the Revolution" is scheduled, moderated by Raluca Duna, and attended by Bianca Burta-Cernat, Cosmin Ciotlos, Florin Iaru and Doris Mironescu. On this occasion, the new double issue of the magazine 'Lettre Internationale' will also be launched, which focuses on the Romanian culture in the 35 years of post-communism.
A different reflection on the relationship between the past and the present is also proposed by a unique album, recently published by the ICR Publishing House. bearing the title "Bucuresti - Dupa treizeci de ani/Bucarest - Trente ans apres," a bilingual volume edited by Laure Hinckel.
Another event, this time dedicated to the young, will take place on Friday at the book fair, being moderated by Florina Pirjol. The event is called "Young Adult Literature. What Do We Have to Offer Young Readers?" and will challenge poet Diana Iepure, coordinator of the "Prima dragoste"/"First Love" collection (Paralela 45 publishing house), Alex Moldovan, writer of literature for children and teenagers, and Oana Purice, literary agent, founder of the Book Industry platform.
The programme of events for the 31st edition of the Gaudeamus Fair can be consulted at https://www.gaudeamus.ro/evenimente/ex_311.
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