Tarek William Saab celebrated 45 years as a poet at FILVEN 2025

Published at: 06/07/2025 10:41 AM

The Attorney General of the Republic, Tarek William Saab, celebrated his 45 years as a poet with a colloquium and the naming of the books The Rivers of Wrath and A Train Travels to the Midnight Sky, as part of the 21st International Book Fair of Venezuela (FILVEN), held at the National Art Gallery and Youth Square in Caracas.

During the event, the Minister of Popular Power for Culture, Ernesto Villegas, welcomed the contribution of the Arab world to Venezuelan culture and reaffirmed the plurality of cultures as a necessary condition for human humanity.

He stressed that “if we gave in to the hegemonic current that seeks to single out culture, ignoring its plurality, we would be yielding to war, destruction and death. Diverse humanity is the only one that can guarantee peace.”

Regarding his new book A Train Travels to the Midnight Sky, William Saab noted that he collects “poems unpublished until now. They stopped being unpublished because the book has already been published. A co-edition of Monte Avila with the Badel brothers”.

He also announced the reissue, after 40 years, of his first collection of poems, Los Ríos de la Ira, which for the poet “is a very important book, insofar as it marks a new era of academic study of my poetry and the book 'Saab, a literary life', which is a long essay published by Alberto Jiménez Ure, about all my poetry”.

He also recalled his 45-year career, reciting a poem that he dedicated to the eternal Commander Hugo Chávez and showed the catalog that was made especially to celebrate his 45 years of literary life and in which, at the end, 31 editions of 17 published books are collected.

He announced that, “apart from these 31 editions, there are the books published in Russia, those that are going to be published at this time in Argentina and in Mexico, those that are going to be published in Türkiye, in Italy; therefore, before the end of the year, there could easily be 36 copies of 17 books translated into several languages and published in, I could say, in 12 countries”.

Mazo News Team/VTV