World Book Fair 2017-7 to 15 January 2017

Welcome to the New Delhi World Book Fair 2017

New Delhi World Book Fair (NDWBF) held for the past 44 years, is now a major calendar event in the publishing world. NDWBF 2017 will be held from 7 to 15 January 2017 at Pragati Maidan, New Delhi.

The Fair is organized by National Book Trust, India, an autonomous organization under the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India, working towards promotion of books and the habit of reading in the country.

India Trade Promotion Organisation (ITPO), under the Ministry of Commerce, Governemnt of India is the Co-organizer of the Fair.

Today Indian publishing stands poised at a significant crossroad towards the path of growth. NDWBF offers the participants a unique opportunity of doing business with this growing book industry. It is also an ideal venue for promoting titles, co-publication arrangements and trade. Besides the many literary and publishing conferences and programmes to be organized during the Fair, it also opens up a gateway to the publishing and intellectual world of South Asia. The Fair attracts participation from major publishing houses of the globe.

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The nine-day New Delhi World Book Fair begins on Saturday at the Pragati Maidan. The theme for this year's event is Manushi, which will focus on writings on and by women.

Minister of State for Human Resources Development Mahendra Nath Pandey will inaugurate the fair, while Human Resource and Development Minister Prakash Javadekar will inaugurate the theme pavilion on Tuesday.

The fair will witness participation of nearly 800 publishers from across the country and abroad. An official release said the fair will exhibit the rich tradition of women writings from ancient times till present.

Posters and panels of some of the eminent women scholars of ancient and medieval India, and women pioneers of modern India will provide an intellectual ambience to the presentation. Besides, books on different genres like fiction, poetry, social science and children's literature will form the main ingredients of the exhibition.

Around 20 countries, including China, Egypt, France, Germany, Japan and Iran are participating in the Foreign Pavilion.

A number of activities like seminars, panel discussions, storytelling sessions and workshops on creative writing will be organised at the Children's Pavilion.

The National Book Trust (NBT), which is celebrating 60 years of its foundation, will showcase its journey in promoting books and reading at a special exhibit called 'This is no looking back'.

The exhibit will display the varied activities that the NBT has undertaken in promoting books including organising book fairs.

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