“We are very satisfied”: the Châteaulin Book Fair attracted 450 visitors [En images]

As soon as they entered the Espace Coatigrac’h in Châteaulin, the numerous visitors to the Book Fair jostled this Sunday, November 17, 2024, for this second edition in this place. Marie-Hélène Gouerec, cultural assistant for the municipality of Châteaulin, at the origin of this organization, explains: “It is a small general salon. The goal is to honor our local feathers.”

Organized jointly with the municipal library, the House that grows and the Gwennili du Faou bookstore, this fair welcomed 52 Breton authors who came to present literature in its different forms with novels, thrillers, documentaries, collections of poetry, works for young people and comics to 450 delighted visitors. An attendance which delighted both the authors and the organization, “very satisfied”.

Think or dream

It is therefore a varied universe that one could find while wandering around the tables in the living room. As with “Born, Reborn, Being”, or how to avoid a hip prosthesis by changing your diet: this is the starting point of this work written by Fabienne Bozec from Saint-Ségal, who tells her story. She adds: “It’s a book to get the reader to think about how to eat better for our bodies but also for the good of the planet.”

Hervé Eleouet, public poet, only needs a word, a few elements or a simple subject to write, on his old-fashioned typewriter, a poem in just a few minutes. “One of the last subjects I was given was sad shoes,” says the poet, before adding: “I am asked for birthdays, special moments in life. There are a lot of reasons, actually.”

For all tastes and all ages

Gaëlle Berthelet, illustrator, hosted a creative stand dedicated to children with the creation of a card for Christmas or other using folding, gluing and cutting techniques. “We give a framework and the imagination does the rest,” explains the author of three books for young people.

The magnificent panoramas of Finistère were not forgotten either. Aïcha Dupoy de Guitard and Hélène de Gouezou presented photographic works on two areas well known to the locals: the Monts d’Arrée, “for which we chose the winter period to take our photos”, indicates the second, and the landscapes of the Crozon peninsula, “with a particular theme, that of the color gold”, explains the first.