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Bogota International Book Fair in Bogota
Founded in 1988 by the Colombian Book Chamber and Corferias, the Bogota International Book Fair, known as FILBo, is the second-largest book fair in Latin America, combining roughly a thousand exhibiting publishing houses with thousands of talks, workshops and presentations at the Corferias fairgrounds, drawing hundreds of thousands of visitors annually.
Twenty-six international writers and around 300 Colombian authors gathered for the first Bogota International Book Fair in 1988, an event organized jointly by the Colombian Book Chamber and the Corferias convention centre that has run every year since as one of the most important cultural gatherings in the Spanish-speaking world.