Famous Visitors
The fair has been visited by many noteworthy foreign authors, such as Paul Auster, Ray Bradbury, Italo Calvino, Susan Sontag, Camilo José Cela, José Saramago, Mario Vargas Llosa, Muhammad Yunus, Brian Aldiss, Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, Ángeles Mastretta, Rosa Montero, Fernando Savater, Roger Chartier, Julián Marías, Claudio Magris, Isabel Allende, Arturo Pérez Reverte and Wilbur Smith.
Argentine authors like Jorge Luis Borges, Adolfo Bioy Casares, Silvina Bullrich, Marco Denevi, Tomás Eloy Martínez, Roberto Fontanarrosa, Beatriz Guido, Manuel Mujica Láinez, Olga Orozco, Quino and Ernesto Sábato were regular visitors of the fair as well.
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