At the fortress of San Carlos de la Cabaña, at the east of Havana, the 21st International Book Fair, wound up its presentation in Havana on February 18. As of February 22, the event will now continue in 8 Cuban provinces and it will finish its travels in the Eastern province of Santiago de Cuba on March 4.

In a ceremony attended by the Ministers of Culture of Cuba, Abel Prieto, and Venezuela, Pedro Calzadilla, the president of the Cuban Book Institute, Zuleika Romay, reported that over 270,000 people visited the event, in all the cultural spaces, with sales of more than 600,000 books.

Romay reviewed the first 11 days and stressed the meeting of the leader of the Revolution, Fidel Castro, with hundreds of intellectuals, as one of the most prominent and historical events of this 21st edition of the International Book Fair.

The president of the Cuban Book Institute said that Caribbean cultures showed many different literary expressions through the voices and books of prominent writers.

The next International Book Fair that will take place in 2013, will be dedicated to the sister nation of the Popular Republic of Angola.

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