The international Podgorica book fair, organized by the "Nova knjiga" publishing house, was opened in the garage part of the Delta City shopping mall by Minister of Education Predrag Bošković.
This year's guest country is the Republic of Turkey, so many visitors were greeted at the opening by Mehmet Nijazi Tanilir, Ambassador of the Republic of Turkey in Montenegro, Džihan Ozdemir, President of the Turkish Cultural Center "Yunus Emre", and prof. Dr. Iskender Pala, a well-known Turkish writer. Ksenija Popović, artistic director of the Fair, addressed the organizers.
"I am extremely pleased that we are a guest country at the International Podgorica Book Fair. The friendship between Turkey and Montenegro is long and our time together has created our common culture. Thanks to the fair, the Montenegrin audience will have the opportunity to get to know famous Tusian writers." Ambassador Mehmet Nijazi Tanilir said at the opening of the book review.
The Turkish writer Iskender Pala, who opened the artistic program of the fair with his promotion last night, told the story of the sultan and the scholar at the opening.
"There lived a long time ago a sultan who called a scholar to him. The messenger who went to bring him to the sultan found him reading in a sea of books. He told him that the sultan was calling him to himself, but the scholar replied that he was hanging out with his friends and that he could not go with him. When the messenger returned to the sultan and told him that the scholar could not come, when asked by the sultan who he was with, the messenger said: there was no one, only books...", he said Fell.
He said that thanks to the books (close friends as illustrated by the story of the sultan and the scholar) and their translations, he will be much closer to Montenegro.
"With each page read, we will get to know each other better," said Pala.
After the ceremonial opening of the jubilee - tenth Podgorica book fair, which this year is held under the slogan "Dreams for reading", a visit to the Turkish stand was organized where artists from this country demonstrated ancient techniques - ebru (painting on water) and nakashan (decorating books for the time of the Ottoman Empire).
The first evening of the Fair was marked by two major promotions of international guests. The first was dedicated to the presentation of the literary work of one of the most recognizable among contemporary Turkish writers, the writer Iskender Pala, while the second was marked by the British writer Alexandra Potter.
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