The winner of this year’s $150,000US FIL Literature Award in Romance Languages, however, was Italian author Claudio Magris (second from right).
The booksigning with British historical fiction writer Ken Follet proved to be popular, as many of his works have sold well after translation into Spanish. (Photo Cortesía FIL Guadalajara/Paola Villanueva Bidault)
The FIL continues this Friday, Saturday and Sunday at Expo Guadalajara, 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Around half a million book titles are on display, a good number of them in English.