With a population of just 4 million, Moldova has a publishing advantage over other small European nations in sharing a language. Between Romania and Moldova the Romanian language is spoken by 24 million people.
Running August 30 through September 3, the 6th incarnation of the Moldovan arm of Romania’s Bookfest International Book Fair will once again be opened by the Presidents of Romania and Moldova, cementing not just the long historical ties between the two nations (including a shared official language), but also the long-standing commitment to books and the publishing industry.
The Bookfest website has a long list of participating publishers and “cultural personalities” for those wanting to dive deeper into this event, part of the wider Bookfest phenomenon that began in 2012 with Bookfest Bucharest and now embraces Timișoara, Cluj-Napoca, Lași, Târgu Mureș and Brașov.
While the Chisinau event has a strong domestic focus, the main Bucharest incarnation each year is a major international publishing event.
With a population of just 4 million, Moldova has a publishing advantage over other small European nations in sharing a language. Between Romania and Moldova the Romanian language is spoken by 24 million people.
For those who learned their European geography last century, Moldova was one of the Soviet republics that gained independence in the early 1990s, but has a long history that predates the Russian Empire and its transition to the USSR, and predates the Ottoman Empire before that.
Pead more about the Bookfest here.
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