Canada Book Day Explained

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 poetryMiguel 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]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Canada Book Day Calgary Reads . calgaryreads.com . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20170401233111/https://calgaryreads.com/canada-book-day/ . April 1, 2017 . February 14, 2020.
  2. Web site: Monique Keiran: Celebrating World Book Day, wherever you are . Keiran . Monique . April 22, 2018 . timescolonist.com . live . February 14, 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180507092120/http://www.timescolonist.com/opinion/columnists/monique-keiran-celebrating-world-book-day-wherever-you-are-1.23275833 . May 7, 2018 .
  3. Web site: Writers' Trust of Canada . writerstrust.com . live . February 14, 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190507061023/https://www.writerstrust.com/about/ . May 7, 2019 .
  4. Web site: Canada Book Day . anydayguide.com . live . February 14, 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170705235504/https://anydayguide.com/calendar/2913 . July 5, 2017 .

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