OPEN THE WORLD! This is the motto of  Vilnius Book Fair. It outlines the main mission of the Fair, i.e. the promotion of reading, the importance of the book for the growth of personality, the positive influence of reading for society and the economic and social prosperity of a country. Reading is the eternal value, that opens the way to the knowledge of the world, that makes one think and alter, that brings joy and pleasure.

The writer Ruta Sepetys who makes Lithuania and its history famous all over the world is a honorary guest at this year’s Vilnius Book Fair. Her debut novel Between Shades of Gray has already been published in 30 countries and it can be read in as many as 25 languages! The book has won several important awards and nominations in the United States of America, France, and in Italy the book Between Shades of Gray has been put on the list of the books recommended to schools as the book disclosing Stalin’s great terror.

Tamra Tuller, a representative of one of the largest publishing houses Penguin Group in New York, which has published the novel Between Shades of Gray, is arriving in Vilnius together with the writer. In the author’s opinion Tamra Tuller has contributed greatly to a successful worldwide distribution of the book.

The writer’s meeting with her readers is held on 24 February, Friday, at 3 pm at the Writer’s Corner of Publishing House Alma littera, and at 4 pm the presentation “Ruta Sepetys’ Road from Siberia to Success” will be conducted in which, apart from the author, the editor of the novel Tamra Tuller and its translator into the Lithuanian language Lina Būgienė will take part. The translator, film director Jonas Öhman will be conducting the talk (Conference Hall 5.1).

Days and opening hours:
February 23, Thursday, THE FELLOWS DAY, 10.00 a.m. - 19.00 p.m.
February 24, THE LONG FRIDAY,  10.00 a.m. - 21.00 p.m.
February 25, Saturday, THE UNUSUAL RENDEZVOUS, 10.00 a.m. - 21.00 p.m.
February 26, Sunday, THE FAMILY DAY, 10.00 a.m. - 17.00 p.m.

Ticket price : 12 Litas (single entry), 30 Litas (valid for the four days of the Fair).
Tickets are sold at the book offices of LITEXPO Centre or www.bilietupasaulis.lt

 For more information please visit http://2012.vilniausknygumuge.lt/en