Salone Internazionale del Libro di Torino

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The winner of the Prize (Italian version)

A Record Fair

Once again it has been defined as the “record-breaking fair”. And it was a record. With 315,013 visitors, the 23rd International Book Fair closed its doors at 10 pm on Monday 17 May 2010 setting a new record: 7,353 more visitors compared to 307,650 in 2009. This is the highest ever reached in over twenty years of life, with an average leap forward of 2.34% compared to last year.

Mission

The Salone Internazionale del Libro di Torino

1,400 exhibitors, 12,500 teachers, and 13,089 publishers, booksellers, librarians, agents, illustrators and translators came together at the 2008 Salone. The Salone dedicates special sections to trade professionals.

Guest country 2010: India

India, honorary guest country

A pool of age-old spirituality, myths and legends, a crucible of civilisations and languages, India is today asserting itself as the second industrial power in Asia, even if it has to tackle harrowing contradictions between poverty and new wealth, tradition and modernity.

IBF-International Book Forum

More and more IBF, the Fair’s business soul

Now in its ninth edition, the IBF - International Book Forum, scheduled from Thursday 13 to Saturday 15 May at the Lingotto Fiere Conference Centre: the business area of the International Book Fair dedicated to the trade in publishing and audiovisual rights for translation and adaptation.

Theme

Memory, leitmotif of the 2010 Book Fair

What is memory for us today? How do we think of it, how do we use it? The choice of memory as the key theme of the 2010 Fair stems from the realisation of a paradox: right at the time when, thanks to new technologies, we have endless databanks to hand, so vast that they challenge our own imagination and management abilities, we have realised that our relationship with the past has become distracted, intermittent, almost annoying.

The Prize

Auster, Fuentes, Oz: the three finalists of the Internationl Book Fair Prize Prize

Paul Auster, Carlos Fuentes, Amos Oz. Three undisputed masters of world culture are the finalists of the International Book Fair Prize, a recognition for authors who have been able to make literature an essential instrument of knowledge. Their names have been selected by the advisory board of the Fondazione per il Libro, aided by illustrious university professors specialised in different cultural areas such as the English language specialist Paolo Bertinetti, the German expert Luigi Forte, and the comparative linguist and Italianist Giorgio Ficara.

Venue

How to reach Lingotto

Lingotto Fiere, Via Nizza 280, 10126 - Torino