Book lovers event to start in Bucharest

Newsroom 26/05/2014 | 11:37

This year’s literary extravaganza of Bookfest consists of interactive events, book launches, reading and autograph sessions, meetings with big names from culture, art and politics, concerts, films, theater performances for kids, photography, creative writing and live drawing workshops, plus debates, at Romexpo, between May 28 to June 1.

This year’s Guest Country is Poland. Under the slogan “Quo vadis Polonia? To the next Nobel”, Romanian readers will be introduced to writer Danuta Walesa, the wife of former legendary leader Lech Walesa, Pawel Huelle, presenting his second book in Romanian, I was Lonely and Happy, and Janusz Leon Wiśniewski who will talk about his novel Loneliness on the Net. Film projections about Nobel Prize winners Henryk Sienkiewicz (1905), Władysław Reymont (1924), Czesław Miłosz (1980) and Wisława Szymborska (1996) will also be screened.

The event will take place at Romexpo, between May 28 – June 1. Admission is free of charge.