
HCM City (VNA) – The third European Book Daysofficially opened on Nguyen Van Binh Book Street in Ho Chi Minh City on May 13,featuring a myriad of activities attractive to local young people.
Visitors to the event from May 12 to 20 willhave a chance to read literature works from such countries as Austria, Germany,France, Denmark, Finland, Spain and Sweden.
They can also take part in a forum introducingthe newly-published book “Cach mang” (Revolution) written by French PresidentEmmanuel Macron, a talk on literature books adapted into films, an exchangewith illustrator Estelle Meens from Wallonie-Bruxelles, and a workshop onEastern folk literature and art motifs through anthropological viewpoints ofClaude Levi-Strauss.
A discussion on France-Vietnam common memoriesin the War World I (1914 – 1918) will also be held at the General ScienceLibrary of HCM City on May 17.
At the event, visitors will get a discount of 20– 30 percent on European literature books and receive special gifts.
Addressing the opening ceremony, Vice Chairmanof the Vietnam Publishers Association Le Hoang said the event offers anoccasion to popularise literature works with special identities of Westerncountries. Through these works, young people can have a better understanding ofEuropean literature, thereby helping to promote cultural exchange betweenVietnam and European nations.
Meanwhile, Ambassador Bruno Angelet, head of theDelegation of the European Union to Vietnam, expressed his delight atVietnamese readers’ warm welcome to European literature works.
The European Book Days, previously known as theEuropean Literature Days, is organised in Hanoi and HCM City by the EuropeanUnion National Institutes for Culture and the embassies of European countries.It has taken place annually in Hanoi since 2011 and was expanded to HCM City in2016.-VNA