The fair will run until 18 October, with more than twenty authors and around fifteen bookshops and publishers taking part<\/p>\n
The square outside the Palacio de Formaci\u00f3n y Congresos de Fuerteventura hosted the official opening of the 36th edition of the Fuerteventura Island Book Fair (Feria Insular del Libro) on Thursday 15 October. The programme will run until Sunday 18 October, with more than twenty authors and around fifteen bookshops, publishers and other organisations taking part.<\/p>\n
In the words of the president of the Cabildo de Fuerteventura, Lola Garc\u00eda: \u201cOnce again we are launching this fair, which is the island’s leading cultural and literary event. It brings together writers from all over the country and, as always, gives pride of place to our own island’s authors.\u201d<\/p>\n
The mayor of Puerto del Rosario, David de Vera, thanked the Cabildo \u201cfor consolidating an event that champions cultural diversity through bookshops, readers and writers, with strong demand for the literature that this Book Fair brings to Puerto del Rosario.\u201d<\/p>\n
As the councillor for Culture, Rayco Le\u00f3n, explained: \u201cMore than a thousand schoolchildren have already taken part in activities this morning, and now the fair begins in earnest, bringing together bookshops, publishers and authors with the public, all with the aim of encouraging reading. There’s also a parallel programme of music, theatre, circus and dance, always inspired by books.\u201d<\/p>\n
The opening ceremony began with the contemporary circus show \u2018Tenet\u2019, performed by the Catalan company Eunoia Colektiva. This was followed by the \u2018Reading opens borders\u2019 dialogue in the Carpa Josefina Pl\u00e1, bringing together journalist \u00c0ngels Barcel\u00f3 and writer Ignacio Mart\u00ednez de Pis\u00f3n. The conversation was moderated by journalist Nicol\u00e1s Castellano (Cadena SER), an expert in migration and human rights.<\/p>\n
The conversation brought together two voices from journalism and literature to reflect on current affairs, including the need to protect democracy against extremist rhetoric, and to explore the power of books to broaden perspectives, connect realities and bring readers closer to other people’s experiences.<\/p>\n
During the dialogue, \u00c0ngels Barcel\u00f3 noted that this was the first time she had taken part in a book fair as a guest. \u201cMaking my book fair debut, and doing so here in Fuerteventura, is incredible for me,\u201d she said. The journalist stressed the need to champion books as spaces that open the mind and foster critical thinking. \u201cBooks are essential. We need to know what has happened in this country; if we think of the mind as a frontier, then reading is necessary to fight hoaxes, lies and disinformation,\u201d she argued.<\/p>\n
For his part, Ignacio Mart\u00ednez de Pis\u00f3n said that he returns to Fuerteventura whenever he can, as he always feels \u201cvery warmly welcomed\u201d there. The writer also referred to the presence of Margarita Yakovenko in the fair’s programme, and reflected on Spain’s transformation into a more plural, mixed and diverse society, very different from the one he knew in his childhood.<\/p>\n
Mart\u00ednez de Pis\u00f3n also lamented the influence of social media in polarising ideological discourse, and stressed the need to appreciate the progress Spanish society has made. \u201cThe message we need to get across is that never in Spain’s history have we been as well off as we are now. Those of us here have never known war, and yet we still complain,\u201d he said. The writer added that younger generations have not experienced the Spain in which their forebears grew up, and so lack the optimistic outlook on the future that, he noted, accompanied earlier generations.<\/p>\n
This was followed by the presentation of the book A\u00f1os Luz<\/em> by Jacobo Garc\u00eda, winner of the Anagrama Prize for Narrative Journalism (Premio Anagrama de Cr\u00f3nica), as well as the musical show Ra\u00edces Strad & C\u00eda<\/em>.<\/p>\n This morning also saw performances for schoolchildren by the Canarian companies Ali Wakhanda and Clapso, as well as storyteller Margarita del Mazo.<\/p>\n The Book Fair is organised by the Centro Bibliotecario Insular, part of the Cabildo de Fuerteventura’s Department of Culture, in collaboration with the Canary Islands Government’s Institute for Cultural Development (Instituto Canario de Desarrollo Cultural). The regional government’s Deputy Ministry for Social Welfare, Equality, Youth, Children and Family (Viceconsejer\u00eda de Bienestar Social, Igualdad, Juventud, Infancia y Familia) is also taking part.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The fair will run until 18 October, with more than twenty authors and around fifteen bookshops and publishers taking part<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35806,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"jnews_post_split":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,288],"tags":[82,190],"class_list":["post-35809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cabildo","category-cabildo-en","tag-fuerteventura","tag-fuerteventura-en"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/informacionlocal.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/inauguraciocc81n2.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informacionlocal.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informacionlocal.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informacionlocal.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informacionlocal.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informacionlocal.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35809"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/informacionlocal.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35813,"href":"https:\/\/informacionlocal.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35809\/revisions\/35813"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informacionlocal.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informacionlocal.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informacionlocal.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informacionlocal.es\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}