12th Antalya Book Fair Begins

“Continue Reading Life” Book Festival Begins in Antalya Antalya Metropolitan Municipality Mayor Muhittin Böcek, invited all Antalya residents to Antalya Book Fair, which will be held for the 21th time this year between 30-2022 October 12.

President Muhittin BöcekStating that 215 authors and 220 national and international publishing houses will participate in the book fair, he said, “We will meet with thousands of book lovers from all over our country and the world, sözcüWe will travel to the magical world of books and books”. President Insect announced that this year's guest of honor of the Book Fair is Gülseren Budaıcıoğlu, who made an impression with her novels such as The Girl in the Glass and If the King Loses.

Mayor of Antalya Metropolitan Municipality Muhittin Böcekheld a press conference for the 21th Antalya Book Fair to be held between 30-2022 October 12. The meeting started with a moment of silence and the singing of the Turkish National Anthem. Metropolitan Mayor Muhittin Böcek, started his speech by expressing his condolences to the mining martyrs who lost their lives in Bartın, and said that the mining families will provide education scholarship support to their children.

The Biggest Fair Held by the Municipality

President Muhittin BöcekStating that they will meet at Turkey's largest book fair organized by the municipality, he said, “In 2009, when I was the mayor of Konyaaltı, we held the first book fair, which I thought would suit our city, which loves to read, in order to prevent the sale of pirated books. It has been 2010 years since the fair we started in a tent in the city square in 12 and our fair has become one of the most important cultural events of our city. Last year, we did not stop at a time when the world stopped due to the pandemic. We continued all our events and festivals. Our book fair was one of them. We successfully held our book fair with the visit of 589 thousand 786 book lovers.”

Continue Reading to Life

The President stated that the motto of the 21th Antalya Book Fair, which will open its doors on October 12, is 'Continue by Reading'. Muhittin Böcek“Until October 30, we will serve our visitors at the Cam Pyramid Congress Center between 10 am and 20 pm. We will host 215 authors and 220 national and international publishers. You will meet with thousands of book lovers from all over the country and the world, and your words, sözcüWe will travel to the magical world of books and books. We will be healed by reading and we will witness the power of knowledge”.

Guest of Honor Gülseren Budaıcıoğlu

Explaining that the guest of honor of the 12th Antalya Book Fair this year was Gülseren Budaıcıoğlu, whose books remained on the most read list for months and were screened with the most watched TV series such as "Red Room, Innocent Apartment, Girl in the Glass", President Insect continued as follows: In our fair where the leading names of world literature will meet in our city; Chingiz Abdullayev, Ayşe Kulin, Üstün Dökmen, Sevil Atasoy, Altan Aymen, Enver Aysever, Osman Pamukoğlu, Levent Gültekin, Serhan Asker, Sinan Akyüz, Talat Kırış, Dr. Many writers such as Mustafa Karataş, Naim Babüroğlu, Ahmet Şafak, Koray Yersüren, Ayfer Yavin will hold autograph sessions and talk events.”

The Gospel of the Second Book from President Insect

Concluding his speech with a good news, the Mayor of the Metropolitan Municipality Muhittin Böcekannounced that his second book will be published in the coming days. Minister Muhittin Böcek“I will meet our guests at our fair every day with both of my books. We will meet with you esteemed members of the press once again on October 19 about my new book and I will convey all the information through you for the first time. Hoping to meet at the 12th Antalya Book Fair to continue with “Reading to Life”, he said.

The fair, which will take place at the Cam Pyramid Congress Center between 21-30 October, can be visited free of charge between 10.00:20.00 and 600:XNUMX every day. For the fair, which hosted nearly XNUMX thousand visitors last year, transportation from all districts will be provided by the Metropolitan Municipality again this year.