Senegal-LITTERATURE-INITIATIVE
Dakar, Apr 17 (APS) – The first literary school year in Senegal opened on Thursday in Dakar, is a “strategic lever to strengthen the book ecosystem and promote literary creation,” said the president of the Senegalese Association of Publishers (ASE), Aminata Sy.
” By highlighting works and authors, this national event aims to stimulate reading and form active citizenship capable of questioning and transforming society ”, she said.
According to Ms. Sy, also Director of the new African Editions of Senegal (Neas), the initiative aims to “restore its letters of nobility to the book, a real vector of transmission of knowledge and engine of social and economic development”.
The literary school year will allow authors and publishers to show literary production and to promote exchanges between the actors of the book chain.
-The delay in the organization of this literary school year is explained by a calendar problem, said Aminata Sy, believing that it was time, in the country of Léopold Sédar Senghor, to have this event which exists elsewhere.
“It was an old project, we had a calendar problem to do so, but we had fairs, book fairs, dedications, etc. We will now do it every year ”, she said, stressing that Senegal is a country of literature first with President-Potte Senghor where his authors were distinguished everywhere in the world.
Different panels linked to editorial sovereignty, to the problem of school publishing, the question of national languages and literary criticism are planned between Thursday and Friday.
The theme of this first edition is: “Literary sovereignty: possibilities and perspectives”.
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