National Book Trust, India, is organising the Visakhapatnam Book Fair at Andhra University Golden Jubilee Ground, opposite the Cyclone Warning Centre (CWC), here, from Saturday.
Addressing a media conference in this connection on Friday, NBT director M.A. Sikandar, deputy director Pradeep Chabra and its chairman Bipan Chandra said that about 60 publishers from all over the country would participate in the festival being organised in association with the District Administration and the Visakhapatnam and Vijayawada Book Festival Society. There would be 75 stalls at the expo being organised with the objective of promoting books and the book reading habit. They said that book release functions and seminars were also being held across the country in this regard.
Literary meetings would be held on all days during the festival.
Sahitya Akademy, Neelkamal, Abhijeet, Gita Press, JP, Oxford University Press and NBT are among those who would participate in the exhibition. There would be spiritual books, medical books, literature, fiction and devotional books apart from educational aids. The Hindu Group of publications will have two stalls at the expo.
Union Minister of State for Human Resource Development D. Purandeswari will inaugurate the book exhibition. Chairman of AP Hindi Academy Yarlagadda Lakshmi Prasad will preside.
Noted short story writer and Sahitya Akademy Awardee Kalipatnam Rama Rao and District Collector Lav Agarwal are expected to participate in the inaugural function.
The fair will be on till December 11.
