<h6><strong>The Diplomat</strong></h6> <h4><strong>The director of the Cervantes Institute, Luis García Montero, will present the yearbook "Spanish in the World" this Saturday, April 26, as part of the Bogotá International Book Fair (FILBo), in which Spain is participating as this year's guest of honor.</strong></h4> Spain will participate in this literary fair from April 25 to May 11, with more than one hundred activities and a delegation of 139 authors, including Javier Cercas, Rosa Montero, Marina Garcés, Fernando Aramburu, Clara Usón, Kirmen Uribe, and Yolanda Castaño. The 3,000-square-meter Spanish pavilion, inspired by the motto "A culture for peace with others and with the planet," will feature a bookstore with 15,000 books and a design conceived so that the construction elements can be reused by various Colombian cultural institutions after the fair ends. According to the Instituto Cervantes, the yearbook presentation will take place in the auditorium of the venue where FILBo is held. García Montero will be accompanied by Francisco Moreno, director of the Global Observatory of Spanish, and Raquel Caleya, Director of Culture at the Instituto Cervantes. The yearbook, which was presented in Spain on October 30, contains data on the international presence and future projections of Spanish, a language that will surpass 600 million speakers worldwide for the first time in 2024. This edition also contains several articles aimed at analyzing specific situations of the language in Spanish-speaking countries such as Mexico, Cuba, Peru, Argentina, Colombia, and Chile. In this regard, the document highlights that 65 languages coexist in Colombia. Specifically, another section of the yearbook focuses on indigenous or native languages. According to the report, in Spanish-speaking countries, the proportion of native Spanish speakers is 93.63% of the population, and the percentage of native Spanish speakers able to communicate in Spanish is 92.25%. <h5><strong>García Lorca</strong></h5> This will be one of the events hosted by the Cervantes Institute at the FILBo, in addition to the presentation of a special multilingual edition in 27 native American languages of Federico García Lorca's poem "Grito hacia Roma" (Cry to Rome). The event, which will take place in the Spanish Pavilion at the Colombian fair on Monday, April 28, will feature the participation of several poets and translators who have collaborated on this book. The poem, part of the book "Poet in New York," has been translated into the native languages of Mexico, Colombia, Peru, Venezuela, and Chile, specifically Quechua, Guaraní, Nahuatl, Aymara, Peninsular Maya, Wayúu, Tsotsil, Mixtec, Zapotec, Kaqchikel Maya, Otomi, Mapuche, Totonac, Mazatec, Mazahua, Purépecha, Mixe, Nasa Yuwe, Sikuani, Warao, Zoque, Pemón, Kogui, Namtrik, Ikü, Desano, and Tuyuca. It also contains illustrations by the poet and the text, double-spaced from the original, on four pages, with corrections in pencil and ink by the author. In addition, Luis García Montero will participate in several events during the fair, including tributes to Colombian poet and writer Darío Jaramillo Agudelo on Saturday, April 26, and to writer Almudena Grandes on Sunday, April 27. García Montero will conclude this institutional trip on Monday, April 28, with a meeting with Daniella Sánchez, director of the Caro y Cuervo Institute.
