HCM City's annual book festival will open on Mar. 19 at Le Van Tam Park in District 1.
Organised by the municipal People's Committee, it will feature 200,000 titles this year, including hundreds of new ones. Books will be sold at discounts of up to 50 percent at 500 stalls.
The week-long event has attracted more than 160 international and Vietnamese publishers, distributors and other companies.
The major foreign names include Penguin, MacMillan, Cambridge , Pearson, Learning, and Oxford .
From Vietnam, the HCM City General Publishing House, National Politics Publishing House, Tre (Youth) Publishing House, and Kim Dong Publishing House will be among those taking part.
Among the popular titles on display will be Nguyen Van Hau's Van Hoc Mien Nam Luc Tinh (Southern Literature), a collection of three books on the lives and works of talented writers in the region in the 19th and 20th centuries. One of Kim Dong's best-selling titles, Nguyen Nhat Anh's Kinh Van Hoa (Kaleidoscope), a novel for children published in 1995, has been reprinted and will be on display.
It tells the stories of a group of urban kids who discover the world and its people in different ways.
Kim Dong will also have books by famous writers of the 1930s and 1940s like Khai Hung, Nguyen Tuan and Nguyen Huy Tuong.
The HCM City Culture-Arts Publishing House, taking part for the first time, will have a series of books by young writers like Nguyen Ngoc Tu and Nguyen Ngoc Thuan.
Cultural researchers and authors, including Tran Van Khe, Bui Van Nam Son, Tran Dang Khoa and Nguyen Quang Lap, will take part in seminars and forums on reading held on the festival's sidelines.
HCM City-based Fahasa, a leading book distributor, will present the award for the year's Best Book based on readers' votes on Mar.23.
Many books will be given away as gifts on the festival's closing day, March 25.
Entrance to the event will be free.-VNA
Organised by the municipal People's Committee, it will feature 200,000 titles this year, including hundreds of new ones. Books will be sold at discounts of up to 50 percent at 500 stalls.
The week-long event has attracted more than 160 international and Vietnamese publishers, distributors and other companies.
The major foreign names include Penguin, MacMillan, Cambridge , Pearson, Learning, and Oxford .
From Vietnam, the HCM City General Publishing House, National Politics Publishing House, Tre (Youth) Publishing House, and Kim Dong Publishing House will be among those taking part.
Among the popular titles on display will be Nguyen Van Hau's Van Hoc Mien Nam Luc Tinh (Southern Literature), a collection of three books on the lives and works of talented writers in the region in the 19th and 20th centuries. One of Kim Dong's best-selling titles, Nguyen Nhat Anh's Kinh Van Hoa (Kaleidoscope), a novel for children published in 1995, has been reprinted and will be on display.
It tells the stories of a group of urban kids who discover the world and its people in different ways.
Kim Dong will also have books by famous writers of the 1930s and 1940s like Khai Hung, Nguyen Tuan and Nguyen Huy Tuong.
The HCM City Culture-Arts Publishing House, taking part for the first time, will have a series of books by young writers like Nguyen Ngoc Tu and Nguyen Ngoc Thuan.
Cultural researchers and authors, including Tran Van Khe, Bui Van Nam Son, Tran Dang Khoa and Nguyen Quang Lap, will take part in seminars and forums on reading held on the festival's sidelines.
HCM City-based Fahasa, a leading book distributor, will present the award for the year's Best Book based on readers' votes on Mar.23.
Many books will be given away as gifts on the festival's closing day, March 25.
Entrance to the event will be free.-VNA
