According to our information, the Shereef Kingdom confirmed its commitment to the organizer of the festival in mid-December and it still remains to define the specific programming that will be developed for the event.
Morocco already guest of honor in 2017
The Moroccan delegation, already guest of honor in 2017 at the Paris Book Fair at Porte de Versailles, will settle in the 300m pavilion of honor2 under the glass roofs of the Grand Palais. “ A large place will be given to the Franco-Moroccan diaspora », like the 2016 Goncourt Prize novelist Leila Slimanipublished by Gallimard, or academician Goncourt Tahar Ben Jelloun« but also to the discovery of new authors », we inform Weekly Books.
The official announcement was expected at the end of this week, when the Moroccan magazine Tel Quel published the information on Monday, January 6, as diplomatic relations between France and Morocco have warmed up in recent months.
150 publishing houses
The Paris Book Festival, which took over from the Book Fair in 2021, aims to exceed last year’s 100,000 visitors (and as many books sold) during the three days in this new setting. The space will be increased by almost a third compared to the ephemeral Grand Palais where the first three editions were held.
According to the latest Bief study on publishing in the Maghreb dating from 2021, nearly 150 publishing houses publish around 3,000 titles per year in Morocco.
