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2015-08-12 11:22|来源：Global Times|admin|
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Shanghai Book Fair and International Literature Week bring host of activities for readers
An annual spectacle for book lovers in town, Shanghai Book Fair (SBF) is returning this year on August 19.
Gathering 150,000 books presented by 500 domestic and foreign publishers, the event will as usual be held at Shanghai Exhibition Center (1000 Yan'an Road Middle) each day from 9 am to 9 pm until August 25.
Books galore
Catering for a diversity of reading tastes, SBF will feature different sections including a children's books section, a social science section, a global movies and music section, a Taiwan books section, and an imported books section. Penguin Random House will join SBF for the first time this year in the imported books section.
A ticket to SBF costs 10 yuan ($1.61) for a whole day and 5 yuan for evenings (after 6 pm).
A highlight of SBF this year is its online to offline service for readers. Amazon, the world's largest vendor of electronic books, will have booths at SBF; meanwhile, Shanghai Century Publishing Group will present its digital publishing house system and app allowing audiences to buy and read e-books; Ximalaya, China's largest online platform offering audio programs and audiobooks, will make its SBF debut this year.
Meanwhile, many of the publishing houses will accept mobile payment methods such as WeChat at their SBF booths.
During the SBF, more than 700 readers' events - including book signings, writers' lectures and reading campaigns - will be held in Shanghai Exhibition Center, Sinan Mansions, as well as other venues across the city. Most of the events are open for free to the public.
During this year's Shanghai Book Fair, more than 700 readers' events including book signings, writers' lectures and reading campaigns will be held all over the city. Photos: Yang Hui/GT and courtesy of the event organizer
International Literature Week
Shanghai International Convention Center in Pudong Lujiazui area will host events for the fifth International Literature Week (ILW) during this year's book fair.
Other major participating venues include Sinan Mansions, Shanghai Library and the office of Shanghai Writers' Association.
Alan Lee, the celebrated illustrator of The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, will give a public talk at Sinan Mansions on August 19, sharing his experience rendering visualizations of scenes from literary works.
German Sinologist Michael Kahn-Ackermann and German translator Marc Hermann will join two Chinese writers in dialogue about China's image in literature on August 20.
Spanish writer Enrique Vila-Matas, a hot candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature and whose works have been published in more than 35 languages around the world, will converse with Chinese writers on the topic of the writer's imagination in literature on August 23.
Meanwhile, British writer Francesca Rhydderch, whose debut The Rice Paper Diaries won the Wales Book of the Year Fiction Prize 2014, will give a lecture on August 19 and a signing event on August 21.
Other featured lecturers during the ILW include award-winning America-born Chinese author Gish Jen, Kazakhstani writer and poet Mukhtar Shakhanov, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region-based writer Shen Wei, South Korean writer Lee Seung-u and Japanese novelist and poet Kitagawa Yasushi.
The ILW will kick off on August 18 with a forum involving about 25 authors at Shanghai International Convention Center, which will also hold a poetry night featuring 26 authors on August 20.
Tickets to both events can be applied for via the WeChat account of ILW (ID: gh_391b056589b2).
To promote reading among citizens, community reading events will be held all over the city.
Sinan Mansions also plans to hold three to four reading events every Saturday after the SBF.
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