“Miss Manhattan” by Biman Roy is displayed at the 2023 Guadalajara Book Fair
“…is aimed at professionals and the general public alike, a characteristic that sets it apart from other book fairs around the globe.”
– Guadalajara International Book Fair
The Guadalajara International Book Fair (FIL) (from its Spanish name, Feria Internacional del Libro de Guadalajara) is the most important publishing gathering in Ibero-America. It is the go-to event for Spanish- and English-language content. More than 1900 publishers attend, with over 20,000 professionals from 44 counties and 700,000 attending from the public. It is the most important publishing gathering in Latin America.
It is also an amazing cultural festival. Created 30 years ago by the University of Guadalajara, the fair is aimed at professionals and the general public alike, a characteristic that sets it apart from other book fairs around the globe.
With business as one of its main goals, it is also a cultural festival in which literature plays a major role, including a program where authors from all continents and languages participate and a forum for the academic discussion of the major issues of our time.
For nine days, people willingly stood in long lines to listen to their favorite authors. The book industry makes Guadalajara its beating heart, and the whole city is filled with music, arts, cinema, and theater from the featured Guest of Honor country.
Author Reputation Press, in partnership with professional authors, participated and displayed masterpieces at the 2023 Guadalajara International Book Fair from November 24 to December 3, 2023.
“Miss Manhattan” by Biman Roy, praised by the US Review of Books, says, “Roy’s collection of poems serves as a love letter to New York City in all its glorious splendor and gritty grime. The poet dedicates this book to fellow New Yorkers, and throughout the range of poetic offerings, a heady and celebratory undercurrent runs throughout, tying the forty-six poems together, all grounded in the Big Apple.”
Author Reputation Press is dedicated to promoting literary connections between authors and readers. In line with this, ARP displayed a few of the remarkable pieces at the most important publishing gathering in Ibero-America.
Biman Roy has been composing poetry for three decades and has had several publications. His writing has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and the Best of the Net. Biman Roy has two poetry chapbooks, “Dinosaur Hour” and “Navigating the Quartz Forest,” and one prose poetry chapbook, “Of Moon and Washing Machine.” He is a psychiatrist who works as a consultant at a New York hospital. He currently resides in Ridgewood, New Jersey.
Visit his website at https://roybiman.com/.
“Miss Manhattan” by Biman Roy truly captures the richness of diversity and the simultaneity of life happening in New York. The text is rich, tumbling, and layered, yet never chaotic, as the sensations of people, cars, birds, flowers, and all forms of city life cascade around the speaker’s (and reader’s) attention.
Watch the full book trailer here:
This book is also available in French and Spanish versions.