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Chennai Book Fair or Madras Book Fair is an annual book fair organized in the Chennai, India by the Booksellers and Publishers Association of South India (BAPASI). The fair typically lasts for about 10 days during the New Year-Pongal season. The fair is usually held between the last week of December and the third week of January. The Chennai Book Fair is the second largest book fair in the country.All major Tamil and English publishing houses participate in this fair. The 2009 fair had over 600 stalls representing most major publishing companies in India and was held between January 8 and January 18, 2009. The Chennai Book Fair is considered to an important event in the Chennai cultural calendar along with the Chennai music season. == History == The First Madras Book Fair was organized in Madras between December 14 and December 24, 1977, by The Booksellers and Publishers Association of South India(BAPASI), an association with major publishing companies of Tamil Nadu, especially Madras, & South India.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=World Health Organization )〕 The first Madras Book Fair had 22 stalls and was held at the Madrasa-I-Azam school.〔 The first six book fairs were successful mainly due to the efforts of K. V. Mathew of BI Publications, who was responsible for the growth of the book fair in its early years.〔 Mr. Mathew has also organized an annual book fair for students.〔 The Student Book Fair, however, hasn't been as successful as the Chennai Book Fair.〔 The first four editions of the book fair were held in the Madrasa-I-Azam school. In 1981, the book fair moved to the YMCA grounds in Royapettah, Chennai. The 1982 edition was organized at the Drive-In restaurant. The book fairs gradually rose in popularity. At the 12th Madras Book Fair held between December 22, 1989, and January 1, 1990, Tamil translations of WHO publications were put on sale. The success of the Chennai Book Fair prompted BAPASI to start similar book fairs at Udagamandalam, Thiruvananthapuram, Pondicherry and Tiruchirapalli. The early editions were held in the last weeks of December and ended in the first week of January in order to coincide with the Christmas-New Year holidays. However, in the late nineties, the fair was moved to mid-January to coincide with the Pongal festive season. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Chennai Book Fair」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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