HAVANA, Cuba, Feb 17 (acn) Guatemalan Nobel Peace Prize Rigoberta Menchu will meet on Thursday in Havana with the public attending at the Cuba 2011 20th International Book Fair.Cuban journalist Magda Resik will speak with Menchu in a meeting at the Nicolas Guillen Hall at the San Carlos de la Cabaña Fortress, the main venue of the Book Fair, which will run until March 6 across the country.‘El Cañonazo’, the daily journal of the event, announced that Menchu’s followers will also have the opportunity to buy her book ‘El Legado Magico’ (The magic legacy).">HAVANA, Cuba, Feb 17 (acn) Guatemalan Nobel Peace Prize Rigoberta Menchu will meet on Thursday in Havana with the public attending at the Cuba 2011 20th International Book Fair.Cuban journalist Magda Resik will speak with Menchu in a meeting at the Nicolas Guillen Hall at the San Carlos de la Cabaña Fortress, the main venue of the Book Fair, which will run until March 6 across the country.‘El Cañonazo’, the daily journal of the event, announced that Menchu’s followers will also have the opportunity to buy her book ‘El Legado Magico’ (The magic legacy).">

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HAVANA, Cuba, Feb 17 (acn) Guatemalan Nobel Peace Prize Rigoberta Menchu will meet on Thursday in Havana with the public attending at the Cuba 2011 20th International Book Fair.Cuban journalist Magda Resik will speak with Menchu in a meeting at the Nicolas Guillen Hall at the San Carlos de la Cabaña Fortress, the main venue of the Book Fair, which will run until March 6 across the country.

‘El Cañonazo’, the daily journal of the event, announced that Menchu’s followers will also have the opportunity to buy her book ‘El Legado Magico’ (The magic legacy).

In another highlight of Thursday’s program, researcher Pedro Pablo Rodriguez will be presented the Ramiro Guerra National Award on History, after he also received the Award on Social Sciences in 2009.

Also on Thursday, Cuban poets will receive the Nosside International Poetry Award in the Jose Lezama Lima Hall. 

‘Simon era su nombre’ (His Name Was Simon), by Etna Iturralde, is one of the books to be presented on Thursday. It is included in the ALBA Bicentenary Collection, a compilation of works published by several Cuban publishing houses donated to libraries in Latin America and the Caribbean.

The book ‘Jose Marti, apostol de nuestra America’, by Dr. Armando Hart Davalos, will be presented at the Centro de Estudios Martianos, another venue of the Book Fair.

Elsewhere, the Havana-based ALBA Cultural House will host the lecture ‘World Impact of Latin American Independences’.


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