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World Book Day or World Book and Copyright Day (also known as International Day of the Book or World Book Days) is a yearly event on April 23, organized by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), to promote reading, publishing and copyright.
In the United Kingdom, the day is recognized on the first Thursday in March.
World Book Day was celebrated for the first time on 23 April 1995.
In 1995 UNESCO decided that the World Book and Copyright Day would be celebrated on 23 April, as the date is also the anniversary of the death of William Shakespeare and Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, as well as that of the birth or death of several other prominent authors.
23 April is a symbolic date for world literature. It is on this date in 1616 that Cervantes, Shakespeare and Inca Garcilaso de la Vega all died. It is also the date of birth or death of other prominent authors, such as Maurice Druon, Haldor K.Laxness, Vladimir Nabokov, Josep Pla and Manuel Mejía Vallejo.
It was a natural choice for UNESCO’s General Conference, held in Paris in 1995, to pay a world-wide tribute to books and authors on this date, encouraging everyone, and in particular young people, to discover the pleasure of reading and gain a renewed respect for the irreplaceable contributions of those, who have furthered the social and cultural progress of humanity.
In this regard, UNESCO created the World Book and Copyright Day.
Based on the positive experience of World Book and Copyright Day, launched in 1996, UNESCO initiated the concept of World Book Capital City and nominated Madrid as the Capital for Year 2001. Following this successful experience, the General Conference adopted, on 2 November 2001, the 31 C/Resolution 29, establishing the yearly nomination of the Book Capital City.
The International Publishers Associations (IPA-UIE), the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) and the International Booksellers Federation (IBF) are associated to this initiative and are therefore represented with UNESCO in the nominating committee, so as to guarantee appropriate representation from the international organizations representing the three major sectors of the book industry.
An agreement was concluded among the partners that, after Madrid (2001), the subsequent capitals would be Alexandria in 2002 and New Delhi in 2003. Then, following public calls for candidatures, the Selection Committee gathered at UNESCO Headquarters and successively nominated the city of Antwerp (Belgium) for 2004, Montreal (Canada) for 2005, Turin (Italy) for 2006, Bogota (Colombia) for 2007, Amsterdam (the Netherlands) for 2008, Beirut (Lebanon) for 2009, Ljubljana (Slovenia) for 2010, Buenos Aires (Argentina) for 2011, Yerevan (Armenia) for 2012, Bangkok (Thailand) for 2013, Port Harcourt (Nigeria) for 2014 and Incheon (Republic of Korea) for 2015.
Finally, the Selection Committee retained the candidature of the city of Wroclaw (Poland) as World Book Capital City 2016 on account of the quality of its program.
The nomination does not imply any financial prize, but an exclusively symbolic acknowledgement of the best program dedicated to books and reading.
2022 – Guadalajara (Mexico) in 2022
The first UNESCO World Book Capital designated prior to the adoption of 31 C/Resolution 29 was Madrid (Spain) in 2001.
Then, following public calls for candidatures, the Advisory Committee successively nominated the city of:
Antwerp (Belgium) for 2004 Montreal (Canada) for 2005 Turin (Italy) for 2006 Bogota (Colombia) for 2007 Amsterdam (The Netherlands) for 2008, Beirut (Lebanon) for 2009 Ljubljana (Slovenia) for 2010 Buenos Aires (Argentina) for 2011 Yerevan (Armenia) for 2012) Bangkok (Thailand) for 2013 Port Harcourt (Nigeria) in 2014 Incheon (Republic of Korea) in 2015 Wroclaw (Poland) in 2016 Conakry (Republic of Guinea) in 2017 Athens (Greece) in 2018 Sharjah (United Arab Emirates) in 2019 Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) in 2020 Tbilisi (Georgia) in 2021 Guadalajara (Mexico) in 2022.
World Book Day, April 23
April 13, 2022 by Team Celebration
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