The Taipei International Book Exhibition (TiBE) opened yesterday. It is the 34th edition of Taiwan’s largest international book event of the year.
The exhibition, taking place at Taipei World Trade Center, runs through Sunday, featuring 509 booths from 29 countries and more than 60 international authors, co-organizer Taipei Book Fair Foundation said in a statement yesterday.
This is the second consecutive year since the COVID-19 pandemic that TiBE has featured more than 500 stands. In 2019, the last edition before the pandemic, the exhibition brought together 735 publishers from 52 countries for a total of 1,859 stands.
Photo: Chen Yi-kuan, Taipei Times
The theme this year is “CreaTHAIvity,” with Thailand serving as the guest of honor for the third time and the first since 2014.
At least 18 Thai writers are expected to attend, including Veeraporn Nitiprapha, the first Thai writer to receive the Southeast Asian Writers Award twice, and former Thai parliamentarian Pita Limjaroenrat, the foundation said.
Nitiprapha’s second novel, Memories of the Memories of the Black Rose Cat, which won her the S.E.A. Write Award in 2018, and Limjaroenrat’s The Almost Prime Minister, recounting his high-stakes journey during the 2023 general election and his ultimately unsuccessful bid to become prime minister, were published in Chinese in Taiwan late last month.
An English version of Nitiprapha’s novel is also available.
Other international authors include Japanese writer Banana Yoshimoto, South Korean novelist Cheon Myeong- kwan and American novelist Anthony Marra.
The exhibition opens at 10am daily and closes at 6pm through Thursday, 10pm on Friday and Saturday, and 6pm on Sunday.
Admission is free for students in Taiwan under the age of 18, and for people with physical disabilities and one accompanying person.
Residents of Taoyuan, as well as those south of Taoyuan, Yilan, Hualien and Taitung counties, can also enter free with same-day high-speed rail or train tickets.
Single-day tickets are priced at NT$180.
Students in Taiwan aged 18 and above can purchase discounted tickets for NT$100 with a valid student ID.
The same price applies to people aged 65 or older, and to the general public after 6pm during the final three days of the exhibition.
Ticket booths close one hour before the exhibition ends each day.
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