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Do not fill this in! ===Literature=== {{See also|Argentine literature}} [[File:El Ateneo Grand Splendid, Buenos Aires (38796014605).jpg|thumb|left|The interior of [[El Ateneo Grand Splendid]], a celebrated bookstore located in the ''barrio'' of [[Recoleta, Buenos Aires|Recoleta]].]] Buenos Aires has long been considered an intellectual and literary capital of [[Latin America]] and the [[Spanish-speaking world]].<ref name="publicpages">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0dM9DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA65|title=Public Pages: Reading Along the Latin American Streetscape|access-date=21 March 2020|last=Schwartz|first=Marcy|date=2 May 2018|publisher=[[University of Texas Press]]|isbn=9781477315187|pages=64–84|archive-date=31 December 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211231062913/https://books.google.com/books?id=0dM9DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA65|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=b8KPCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT174|language=es|page=174|access-date=21 March 2020|last3=Villanueva|first3=Darío|title=Lo que Borges le enseñó a Cervantes: Una introducción a la literatura comparada|last1=Domínguez|first1=César|last2=Saussy|first2=Haun|publisher=Taurus|location=Spain|year=2016|isbn=9788430618132|archive-date=16 August 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210816045341/https://books.google.com/books?id=b8KPCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT174|url-status=live}}</ref> Despite its short urban history, Buenos Aires has an abundant literary production; its mythical-literary network "has grown at the same rate at which the streets of the city earned its shores to the pampas and buildings stretched its shadow on the curb."<ref name="kallinikos">{{cite magazine|last=Komi Kallinikos|first=Christina|year=2003|title=La ciudad literaria, portador material e inmaterial de memoria|url=http://fh.mdp.edu.ar/revistas/index.php/celehis/article/viewFile/618/621|language=es|magazine=Revista del Centro de Letras Hispanoamericanas|volume=12|number=15|location=[[Mar del Plata]], Argentina|publisher=[[National University of Mar del Plata]]|access-date=5 February 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160206074543/http://fh.mdp.edu.ar/revistas/index.php/celehis/article/viewFile/618/621|archive-date=6 February 2016|url-status=live}}</ref> During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, culture boomed along with the economy and the city emerged as a literary capital and the seat of South America's most powerful publishing industry,<ref>{{cite book|chapter=Buenos Aires|title=Contemporary Hispanic Crime Fiction: A Transatlantic Discourse on Urban Violence|pages=93–139|last=Close|first=Glen S.|isbn=978-1-349-60353-4|year=2008|location=United States|publisher=[[Palgrave Macmillan]]|doi=10.1057/9780230614635_4}}</ref> and "even if the economic path grew rocky, ordinary Argentines embraced and stuck to the habit of reading."<ref name="insiderlit"/> By the 1930s, Buenos Aires was the undisputed literary capital of the Spanish-speaking world, with [[Victoria Ocampo]] founding the highly influential ''[[Sur (magazine)|Sur]]'' magazine—which dominated Spanish-language literature for thirty years—<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.proceso.com.mx/125370/victoria-ocampo-y-la-revista-sur|language=es|access-date=21 March 2020|date=3 February 1979|title=Victoria Ocampo y la revista "Sur"|location=Mexico|work=[[Proceso (magazine)|Proceso]]|archive-date=21 March 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200321232032/https://www.proceso.com.mx/125370/victoria-ocampo-y-la-revista-sur|url-status=live}}</ref> and the arrival of prominent Spanish writers and editors who were escaping the [[Spanish Civil War|civil war]].<ref name="insiderlit">{{cite web|url=https://www.businessinsider.com/argentinas-capital-is-the-worlds-capital-of-bookstores-2015-5|title=Argentina's capital is the world's capital of bookstores|date=1 May 2015|access-date=21 March 2020|work=[[Business Insider]]|last=Rey|first=Debora|archive-date=21 March 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200321232033/https://www.businessinsider.com/argentinas-capital-is-the-worlds-capital-of-bookstores-2015-5|url-status=live}}</ref> Buenos Aires is one of the most prolific book publishers in Latin America and has more bookstores per capita than any other major city in the world.<ref name="insiderlit"/><ref name="bookcapital">{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/19/argentina-books-bookstores-reading|title=A novel oasis: why Argentina is the bookshop capital of the world|last1=Goñi|first1=Uki|date=20 June 2015|work=The Guardian|publisher=Guardian News and Media Limited|access-date=2 February 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151108080411/http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/19/argentina-books-bookstores-reading|archive-date=8 November 2015|url-status=live}}</ref> Buenos Aires has at least 734 bookstores—roughly 25 bookshops for every 100,000 inhabitants—far above other world cities like London, Paris, Madrid, Moscow and New York.<ref name="insiderlit"/><ref name="bookcapital"/> The city also has a thriving market for secondhand books, ranking third in terms of secondhand bookshops per inhabitant, most of them congregated along [[Avenida Corrientes]].<ref name="bookcapital"/> Buenos Aires' book market has been described as "catholic in taste, immune to fads or fashion", with "wide and varied demand."<ref name="bookcapital"/> The popularity of reading among ''porteños'' has been variously linked to the wave of mass immigration in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and to the city's "obsession" with psychoanalysis.<ref name="bookcapital"/> The [[Buenos Aires International Book Fair]] has been a major event in the city since the first fair in 1975,<ref name="publicpages"/> having been described as "perhaps the most important and largest annual literary event in the Spanish-speaking world,"<ref name="bookfair19">{{cite web|url=https://www.batimes.com.ar/news/culture/ba-book-fair-returns-for-2019-what-to-look-out-for.phtml|title=Buenos Aires Book Fair returns for 2019: what to look out for|last=Lyskawa|first=Madeline|date=20 April 2019|access-date=21 March 2020|work=Buenos Aires Times|publisher=[[Perfil]]|archive-date=22 March 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200322012435/https://www.batimes.com.ar/news/culture/ba-book-fair-returns-for-2019-what-to-look-out-for.phtml|url-status=live}}</ref> and "the most important cultural event in Latin America".<ref name="efelibro">{{cite web|url=https://www.efe.com/efe/america/cultura/la-feria-del-libro-de-buenos-aires-cierra-con-casi-dos-millones-visitantes/20000009-3975467|language=es|title=La Feria del Libro de Buenos Aires cierra con casi dos millones de visitantes|access-date=22 March 2020|date=14 May 2019|publisher=[[EFE]]|archive-date=14 May 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190514032028/https://www.efe.com/efe/america/cultura/la-feria-del-libro-de-buenos-aires-cierra-con-casi-dos-millones-visitantes/20000009-3975467|url-status=live}}</ref> In its 2019 edition, the Book Fair was attended by 1.8 million people.<ref name="efelibro"/> Buenos Aires was designated as the [[World Book Capital]] for the year 2011 by [[UNESCO]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=15 June 2009 |title=Buenos Aires chosen by UN cultural agency as World Book Capital for 2011 |url=https://news.un.org/en/story/2009/06/303362-buenos-aires-chosen-un-cultural-agency-world-book-capital-2011 |access-date=19 April 2022 |website=UN News |language=en |archive-date=19 April 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220419134227/https://news.un.org/en/story/2009/06/303362-buenos-aires-chosen-un-cultural-agency-world-book-capital-2011 |url-status=live }}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by 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