Book Fair 2025: Today's Recommended Books, May 6

Tuesday is a great day to visit the Book Fair because the crowds are slightly less intense, allowing you to visit the stands without rushing and find space at the events. At 6:30 p.m. in the Clarín / Ñ cultural space, the book Conbienestar, a guide to comprehensive health, will be presented, featuring a dialogue between infectious disease specialist Roberto Debbag and cardiologist Alberto Alves de Lima. Coordinators: Guillermo Lobo and Mariela Caputo, and comedian Luis Landriscina will be the special guest.

Meanwhile, at 3 p.m., Oche Califa, author of The World Ahead, about Che Guevara's youthful travels; Marcela Bublik, from The Grandmothers Tell You How It Was; and the authors of The Grandchildren Tell You How It Was , will discuss the construction of memory. Sabrina Gullino, Valenzuela Negro, Catalina de Sanctis, and Gonzalo Gayoso will be illustrating live in the Future Zone.

An hour later, the book presentation of Cromañón: The Ashes Still Burn will be presented by Luciano Frangi, Olivia Nuss, and Alejandra García. Moderated by Nacho Girón in the Alfonsina Storni Room; while Silvia Almada and María Elisa Grisolía will participate in " I'll Tell You and I'll Sing to You" in the Alejandra Pizarnik Room.

At 5:30 p.m., Sunme Yoon, the Argentine translator of Nobel Prize winner for Literature Han Kang, will present the book Traditional Religions of Korea with editor Nicolás Braessas, accompanied by the Civil Association of Koreans in Argentina and Hwarang Editorial in the Alejandra Pizarnik Room.

An hour later, Alejandro Horowicz, Sylvia Saítta, and Ricardo Ragendorfer will present Contracorrientes: pensar la Historia, disputar el presente (Against Currents: Thinking History, Disputing the Present ), the collection directed by Alejandro Horowicz, which brings together a series of essays that are already classics or will become so. It will be held at the Zona Futuro (Future Zone).

At 7:00 p.m., four unmissable activities will take place: Colombian Alejandra Jaramillo, Chilean Diego Zúñiga, and Argentine Andrés Neuman will participate in panel 6 of the Dialogue of Latin American Writers in the Alfonsina Storni Room; Guillermo Saccomanno will present Arderá el viento (The Wind Will Ark), a novel for which he won the Alfaguara Prize, in the Domingo Faustino Sarmiento Room; simultaneously, Fabio Morábito will present his new book in the Julio Cortázar Room; and in the Ernesto Sabato Room, the president of the Academy of Masonic Studies, Pablo Tesija, and the undersecretary of Culture of the Grand Lodge of Argentina of Free and Accepted Masons, Sebastián Sfriso, will offer an open dialogue with the public.

To close, Road Literature , stories in motion by authors who work in their novels the story of the journey, the landscape and the route with Salvador Biedma, Ariel Adler, Carolina Sborovsky in the Future Zone and at 8 pm the 40th anniversary of Waiting for the Carriage will be celebrated. “On May 6, 1985, the film directed by Alejandro Doria premiered in theaters. 40 years after that milestone, the theater company Pablito No Clavó Nada brings to the present the iconic characters of the film, whose dixit, even today, are part of queer communication,” explain the organizers. It will be in the Pride and Prejudice room.