Feria Internacional del Libro Santo Domingo

Every year the International Book Fair is celebrated, and each year it's dedicated to a country and a character. This year, the guest country was Brazil, and the character was Professor Juan Bosch, celebrating his 100 birthday. The first President of the Dominican Republic, a prominent politician, writer, essayist, and storyteller, was democratically elected after the death of the dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo. He was the founder of the country's bipartisan PRD (Dominican Revolutionary Party) in 1939 and PLD (Partido of the Dominican Liberation) in 1973. He was born on June 30, 1909 and died on November 1, 2001.