Radio Taiwan International
Date: 29 December, 2020
By: Shirley Lin

The 2021 Taipei International Book Exhibition will be held at the Taipei World Trade Center and also online. The event organizers made the announcement on Tuesday. They decided on an online version as well, due to the fact that foreign authors and publishers cannot travel to Taiwan because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

A total of 46 writers from 13 countries will be meeting Taiwanese readers online or sending pre-recorded videos talking about their latest works. They include second time Booker Prize nominee from India, Amitav Ghosh, Nobel Prize in Literature winners from Japan, Kazuo Ishiguro, Keiichiro Hirano, and Shion Miura, and renowned Chinese-American novelist Ha Jin.

The Taipei Book Fair Foundation has also invited Taiwan’s Digital Minister Audrey Tang to hold a reading session at the event.     [FULL  STORY]