The 12th edition of Tirupur Book Festival, organised by the Pinnal Book Trust and Bharathi Puthakalayam, which commenced at K.R.C. City Centre here, is providing an opportunity as one-stop destination to purchase books, listen to literary discussions and view theme-based short films.
Stalls
In this edition, 105 book publishers/distributors had set up the stalls exhibiting a wide range of novels, fictions, educational materials, VCDs containing short stories, games and children’s tales and religious books, among others.
Opportunity
Though the book fair gives immense opportunity for the readers of Tamil literature, it would be a huge disappointment for those trying to select books from among English works.
Over 95 per cent of the total shelve space in the fair arena was occupied by the books written in Tamil.
Many of the exhibitors opined that the demand continues to be more for books written in Tamil even though more and more parents from the knit city of Tirupur had been showing excessive passion to enrol their children into English medium schools.
“We will try to bring more sellers of English books next year,” said S. Muthukannan, secretary of organising committee of the event.
