Santiago, NL, will carry out the third edition of its Book Fair

For the third consecutive occasion, the municipality of Santiago, Nuevo León, will hold the Santiago Lee Festival as of today until Sunday, March 2. This magical town will deploy in its main square an exhibition and sale of bibliographic materials of the main editorial stamps of the State, and in its main enclosures a program of 50 cultural and artistic activities will be developed.

As a special guest will be the French writer Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio, Nobel Prize for Literature 2008, who will sign a meeting with young readers of Santiago, who have made a special reading of The African And they will present the special number that they dedicated to him from the magazine Quixote, published by the Directorate of Culture of Santiago and the high school 20 of the Autonomous University of Nuevo León.

The purpose of the meeting is to contribute to the social development of the community and summon the greatest number of visitors to the Magic People, consolidating itself as one of the most important cultural communities in Nuevo León.

In the exhibition and editorial sale of Santiago Lee, about twenty editorial stamps will be represented, including: Conart and Nuevo León editorial fund, as well as the Economic Culture Fund.

They will also be present broken glass, Tagu Editions and Tilde Ediciones, as well as the Santiago label Los Evos de Eva, Anagrama, Ocean, Planet and Random House Mondadori, the National College, the Mexican Academy of Language, the University of Guadalajara, the Veracruz and Mantis Editions, among others.

The program, of more than 50 activities, is divided into exhibitions, meetings and shows.

Brotherhood with San Cristóbal de las Casas

In this edition, Santiago Lee also incorporates the figure of the guest of honor, in this case, San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas.

The Magic People heads a delegation in which the poet Rodrigo Balam, the chronicler Miguel Muñoz, a pictorial exhibition with the work of 14 artists, a pre -Hispanic folk dance company and a contemporary jazz assembly.

Programming also includes editorial presentations, conferences and round tables. Highlights the launch of the book Alfonso Reyes: two years in Paris 1925-1927, Published by the General Consulate of France in Monterrey, the Vázquez Foundation and the Nuevo León Editorial Fund on the occasion of the Centenary of the call Universal Regiomontano as Ambassador of Mexico in France.

Among the Mexican authors participating in Santiago Lee 2025 are Juan Villoro, Elmer Mendoza, Diego Enrique Osorno, José Eugenio Sánchez, María de Alva, Rogelio Guedea, Luis Panini, Gabriela Cantú and Jorge Humberto Chávez.

The signing of a collaboration agreement between their respective art museums will also be signed in order to promote a rich cultural exchange and tourist promotion.

In addition, the Mexican Culture Seminar will hold a master conference with its president, the architect Felipe Leal, who will take protest at the Board of Directors of the Santiago correspondent. Archaeologist Eduardo Matos Moctezuma, the chronicler and collaborator of The day Ángeles González Gamio and the poet Fernando Fernández.

Pictorial samples will be made such as A look at San Cristóbal, with the work of painters of the Chiapas Magic Town; A sound installation by Blanca Nelly Garza, and a sample of the Santiago artist Verónica Vázquez Orozco.

Likewise, tributes and commemorations will be made to the Santiago writers Marcela García Machuca and Nancy Tamez; To the poet and translator Miguel Covarrubias, for his 85 years of life, and the cultural journalist Gerardo López Moya, who will receive recognition for the 30th anniversary of his television program Open workshop.

A theatrical reading of the work will be made It was not criminal, of the writer Juan Villoro, directed by Hernán Galindo with the actors Fernando Lozano and Hugo Santos. Likewise, the interdisciplinary show will be presented Rosario Castellanos: another way of being, Directed by Ana Laura Santamaría.

The Mexican Library Association, Nuevo León Section, will direct the work table on Santiago in the General Archive of the State and the history of the El Porvenir Factory between 1871 and 1940 from the perspective of the textile workers.

The complete program of the book and reading Festival Santiago Lee and Venos can be consulted on their social networks and those of the municipality of Santiago, Nuevo León.