Canada Book Day is a yearly event celebrated in Canada on April 23 to promote reading and books during Canada Book Week. Canada Book Week takes place on the week of April 23.[1]
Canada Book Day is celebrated on the same day as World Book and Copyright Day, a yearly event organized by UNESCO to promote reading, publishing and the protection of intellectual property through copyright. The date was chosen by UNESCO to honour three writers of fiction, non-fiction and poetry—Miguel de Cervantes, William Shakespeare and Inca Garcilaso de la Vega— who each died on April 23, 1616.[2]
Canada Book Day was organized by the Writers' Trust of Canada, a national organization whose mandate is to represent writers and support Canadian English-language literature.[3] The Trust no longer organizes this event.[4]
References edit
- ^ "Canada Book Day Calgary Reads". calgaryreads.com. Archived from the original on April 1, 2017. Retrieved February 14, 2020.
- ^ Keiran, Monique (April 22, 2018). "Monique Keiran: Celebrating World Book Day, wherever you are". timescolonist.com. Archived from the original on May 7, 2018. Retrieved February 14, 2020.
- ^ "Writers' Trust of Canada". writerstrust.com. Archived from the original on May 7, 2019. Retrieved February 14, 2020.
- ^ "Canada Book Day". anydayguide.com. Archived from the original on July 5, 2017. Retrieved February 14, 2020.
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