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Nights of Reading in France: 21-24 January 2021


The Nights of Reading was created in 2017 by the French Ministry of Culture to celebrate the pleasure of reading and democratize access to reading.

In the current health context, and after the test of confinement during which the reading was a real bubble of escape for many people, it seemed essential to the Ministry of Culture to maintain this great book festival in order to unite all the actors of the book chain and to reaffirm to all the essential place of books and reading in our society. 

The book industry, like the entire cultural sector, has suffered greatly from the health crisis. The 2021 edition of Nights of Reading, which will take place over four evenings, will be an opportunity to support and value it.

This is the 5th edition of the festival. The theme is “Reread the world.”

Reinvent the world, dream of adventures, escape, travel, discover other horizons while remaining still. Thanks to reading, everything becomes possible! This year, 2021, the event will celebrate reading in all its forms via in situ animations, but also digital initiatives for all audiences. Reading the world is also connecting the world. 

The event will echo the themes of previous events that highlighted the links that reading was likely to create. This year, reading will be the link between all readers, present in the organizers' places, participating in digital animations or installed at home with a book in hand.

From 21 to 24 January 2021, throughout metropolitan France, overseas and even abroad, the various players in the book chain, with libraries and bookstores at the head of the line, but also all the structures involved in the promotion of reading that wish it, will offer fun and friendly events to exchange, play and learn thanks to the book.

This year again, the animations, whether organized in situ or remotely, will be original and diversified: musical readings, in the dark or in pajamas, meetings with authors, literary games and quizzes, shows, contests, treasure hunts, workshops, guided tours, exhibitions, etc.

Throughout its previous events in previous years, the festival reached all audiences and mobilized 650,000 participants of all ages in more than 6,000 events in France and in about 30 other countries. It will be slightly diffierent this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but it will continue.









 

 

 

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MARTINA NICOLLS is an international aid and development consultant, and the author  of: The Paris Residences of James Joyce  (2020), Similar But Different in the Animal Kingdom (2017), The Shortness of Life: A Mongolian Lament (2015), Liberia’s Deadest Ends (2012), Bardot’s Comet (2011), Kashmir on a Knife-Edge (2010) and The Sudan Curse (2009).

 

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