Venezuela enthralled those attending the Bogotá International Book Fair 2025

Published at: 13/05/2025 10:25 AM

The Venezuelan stand at the Bogotá International Book Fair (FILBO 2025) captivated the attendees, with its editorial production exhibited through the Ministry of Popular Power for Culture and its embassy in this country.

At this event, organized by the Colombian Chamber of Books and Corferias, Venezuela offered more than 400 titles published by more than a dozen publishers, including those attached to the Ministry of Popular Power for Culture, which addressed different genres that explore historical issues and the rich cultural heritage of Venezuela, among other aspects.

Colombian readers and visitors in general were able to find editions of Monte Ávila, The Dog and the Frog, Ayacucho Library, Vadell Hermanos, Fundarte, Trinchera, Simon Bolivar Study Center, Acirema, Ediciones The Missing Letter, Garzamora and Nila editions, among other publishing labels.

Leading Venezuelan authors connected at FILBO with different readers, who discovered the editorial production for adults, young people and children that is being created in Venezuela.

The delegation was composed of authors such as the communicator and philosopher Miguel Pérez Pirela, the Afro-Venezuelan researcher Casimira Monasterios, who is a member of the Afro-Venezuelan Social Movement and a member of the National Assembly; the historian and essayist Manuel Carrero and the communicator Aminta Beleño.

A representative of FUNDARTE joined the delegation, with the president of this institution, Andrymar Montilla, and its production coordinator, Rosa Fernández. This institution, from the Mayor's Office of Caracas, presented its publications such as the collection I Myself Was My Route and the Stefania Mosca Library.

Among the most requested titles are “Pueblo” and “Happy” by Miguel Pérez Pirela and “Doña Bárbara” by Rómulo Gallegos.

Other most sought after titles were “The Parricidal Republic” by Pedro Calzadilla, “Childbirth of the Cimarrón People” by Casimira Monasterios, “Cinema in an Ecofeminist Key” by Aminta Beleño, “The Liberation Campaign of Peru” by Escala and Maita, “Africa and Afro-Descendants in the Americas and the Caribbean” by Jesús García, “ Afro-descendants: Celebrating Between Gods and Spirits ” by Diógenes Díaz, “Venezuelan Science Fiction” by Julio Miranda, “Cultural Cimarronaje” by Gustavo Silva and “Between That Can Fit a Hundred” by Ángel Méndez.

MINCULTURA PRESS/Mazo News Team