La Trocha Editorial is participating in the event for the first time; its mission is to publish works by Asian and African authors for the Latin American market, its director, Taroa Zuñiga, explained.

Among the titles is “117 Dias” (117 Days) by Ruth First, which focuses on a South African journalist who fought against apartheid.

Zuñiga told Prensa Latina that First was imprisoned and wrote notes, which the publishing house is now releasing for the first time in Spanish for Latin America.

Another publisher at FILSA is LOM Ediciones, founded in 1990, a name that means “sun” in the Yaghan language.

Among the books to be launched are “Locomotoras del Museo. Memorias de Un Ferroviario” (Museum Locomotives: Memoirs of a Railway Worker) by Pedro Ivan Urquieta, “La Constituyente, Una Tarea Pendiente” (The Constituent Assembly: An Unfinished Task) by Jaime Bassa; and “El Brote” (The Outbreak) by Mariano Lira.

The Fair opened on Friday and will run until November 22 at the Estacion Mapocho Cultural Center in this capital.

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