Minsk International Book Fair will be held in Minsk on 6-10 February

Minsk International Book Fair will be held in the administrative complex at 14 Pobediteley Avenue, Minsk on 6-10 February, reporters learned from the Information Ministry.

The book forum will be themed around the Year of Native Land, the 2nd European Games, the Belarusian literature classics’ anniversaries and memorable historical dates of Belarus.

For the first time, the fair will be held not only at the exhibition grounds but also in bookstores, libraries and museums. Plans are in place to organize literary excursions, poetry routes and thematic seminars, to discuss world trends in book design, crowdfunding, literary criticism and blogging, work in social networks and other issues of the book industry.

The exhibition will also feature meetings with authors, publishers, and artists, and also book presentations, roundtables, autograph sessions and master classes. The fair will also run a children’s program. The exposition titled as Printing House of the 16th Century will demonstrate the unique furnishings of the old printing yard.
A seminar for young writers and translators and the Writer and Time international literary symposium will bring together authors from the CIS and non-CIS countries on 6-7 February.