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Encarnación Book Fair Closes with Literature, Giant Chess and Rock

From ABC Color · () Spanish

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  • The 22nd Encarnación Book Fair will hold its final day on Sunday with free admission and a book exhibition opening at 8 a.m.
  • The program includes giant chess, a book exchange, a fan festival, children’s puppetry, book presentations, rock and piano performances, and an orchestral finale.
  • The fair, held at the Autonomous University of Encarnación, draws an estimated 20,000 visitors each year.

The Encarnación Book Fair is preparing to close its 2026 edition with one last day of books, games, music and family entertainment. The exhibition will open at 8 a.m. on Sunday, with free admission as on all previous days.

The day’s program starts at 9 a.m. with giant chess and a book exchange. At 2 p.m., the Tiempo Extra 12 Fan Festival will bring drawing, painting, comics, quizzes, tournaments and cosplay to the fair.

Children’s puppet show The Prodigal Son will follow at 3 p.m., along with further presentations by Paraguayan and Argentine authors. Rock en la Feria is scheduled for 5 p.m., followed by Entre piano y voz, featuring Sofía Sienkawiec and Giovanni Brambilla, at 6:30 p.m.

The artistic closing will take place at 7 p.m. with Sinfonías de la Feria. Música de películas y más, performed by the Encarnación City Youth Orchestra under conductor Adolfo Arrúa.

The 22nd edition took place at the Urban Campus of the Autonomous University of Encarnación in the city center. Organizers estimate that about 20,000 people attend the fair each year. The fair will be followed next week by the Colonias Unidas Book Fair in Hohenau, scheduled for Nov. 7 to 9.

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Originally published by ABC Color in Spanish. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.

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