The 26th edition of
New Delhi World Book Fair will be held from
6 to 14 January 2018 at Pragati Maidan, New Delhi with
European Union as the Guest of Honour. This year the events and programs held at the fair will majorly revolve around the theme
climate change and environment.
The book fair will witness author interactions, film/documentaries screenings, book releases and seminars. There will also be many literary and publishing programs and panel discussions among them are the events initiated by Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan.
- Lazy Sunday of LiteratureS
Join in for a
Sunday literary event on
7th January, 2018,
1430 at the
International Corner.Lazy Sundays of LiteratureS is a literary European event, featuring 12 authors from 9 countries
A number of European authors will present readings of their texts in their respective languages as well as in English and will be clubbed together in different sessions. The German novelist- filmmaker
Norman Ohler will represent Germany and will read from his highly acclaimed first non-fiction book
Der totale Rausch, translated as
Blitzed - Drugs in Nazi Germany.
David Foenkinos from France,
Laurence Boissiere from Switzerland,
Dorothea Nürnberg from Austria, and many other established and popular authors would also grace the lazy literary afternoon with their participation.
Don’t be lazy to join us at this lazy literary Sunday.
- Panel Discussion: Creative Resistance : Writers in the face of Fascism and War
On
11th January,
1500 at the
EU Pavilion , the panelist
Uday Prakash (Hindi writer),
Sanjeev Kumar (Hindi literary critic),
Amar Farooqui (Professor of History, DU),
Anil Bhatti (Retd Professor of German Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University) and
Vibha Maurya (Retd Professor of Hispanic Studies, Delhi University) will discuss about the inter-war period that was marked by the rise of fascist, authoritarian regimes in many parts of Europe and will also focus on the idea of translation as a collective endeavor.
The discussion is evolving around a translation project conducted at Delhi University. Texts translated from German, French, Portuguese, Spanish and Italian into Hindi will be published by Rajkamal Prakashan later in 2018 under the title
Andhere Daur Ki Roshan (
Helle Geschichten in finsteren Zeiten).
- Book launch: Anthology of Contemporary German Short Stories in Hindi (Stil der Zeit)
Stil der Zeit is an anthology of short stories by contemporary German authors translated into Hindi.The book launch along with a panel discussion and readings will be on
11th January,
1600 at
International Corner.
Uday Prakash (Hindi writer)
, Sanjeev Kumar (Hindi literary critic)
and
Anil Bhatti (Retd Professor of German Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University) will talk about contemporary German literature, its relevance for the Indian reader and the challenges of translating into Hindi.
New Delhi World Book Fair:
http://www.newdelhiworldbookfair.gov.in/
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