18/04/2012 | Argentina

International Book Fair begins

The annual event for book and culture lovers begins on Thursday under the motto of "A future with a book" and will be held until May 7 at La Rural headquarters in Palermo neighbourhood.

21/04/2011 | Argentina

Vargas Llosa thanks CFK's intervention against those who vetoed his visit

Nobel Prize winner Mario Vargas Llosa gave a speech in the Book Fair and thanked "President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner's prompt intervention against those intellectuals who vetoed" the Peruvian author's visit, thus referring to those pro-government intellectuals who opposed his visit due to his political opinions. He was interviewed by journalist Jorge Fernández Díaz.

28/04/2011 | Argentina

Vargas Llosa blasts the Kirchners': 'How is it possible that they own Argentina?'

After his polemic presentation at the Book Fair opening, the Nobel Prize for Literature winner Mario Vargas Llosa blasted once more the Peronism and the governments of late President Néstor Kichner and his wife, current President, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner.

30/04/2011 | Argentina

On the death of Ernesto Sabato: World reactions

World press reacted immediately to the news of Ernesto Sábato's death, evoking the response that he had surpassed the world of literature to gain a more iconic status on the return to democracy in Argentina.

30/04/2011 | Entertainment

Writer Ernesto Sabato dies, aged 99

30/04/2011 | Entertainment

Biography: The Life of the literature legend, Ernesto Sabato

Ernesto Sabato came from a Calabrian roots and was born on June 24 in 1911. He was the tenth child out of eleven to be born into his family. His mother Juana María Ferrari and his father Francisco Sábato lived together with all of their children in Rojas, in the province of Buenos Aires.