Every time about 7000 people visit the festival and the numbers are increasing rapidly. The Literature festival continues for 12 days and nearly 300 + events are celebrated which are enacted by about 100’s of renowned poets every year. The numbers above itself proves the craze of this festival among the people and therefore people from different part of the world visit Berlin and register their presence every time for this special event. The main aim/concern of the entire event is to present and promote the Literature of the Eastern Europe among the interested public.
This is the 11th version of this festival and the main focus would remain on Asia and Comics during the entire event. The participants of the event are fairly selected by festival management itself whose board comprises of a network of senior international curators, renowned judges and some other experts in the field, making it a totally different and difficult process.
The budget of all the events combined in the Literature festival crosses the record 1.4 million mark. This event is regularly celebrated on an annual basis since 2001 seeing the popularity it is gaining amongst the masses. It is organized under the directorship of Ulrich Schreiber since it’s birth. Youth Literature and Children, memories of past legends, reflections of different sections of society are amongst the famous cultural events which are celebrated in this festival. Comida tipica de Mexico .Other famous events include Catalog (Katalog Der), which present biographies of poets which take part in this festival. In the International Division program for children which is celebrated here, authors and illustrators present their novels from around the world. They also present stories, poems, and illustrations and also attend workshops, school projects and other family events. The most important event of the whole festival is the choosing of 99 poems which are then resided in their own language or the German language.
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