The best public library in the world is named after the South American Nobel Prize winner

Library Gabriel Garcia Marquezlocated in the Spanish city of Barcelona (northeast), was declared this Monday Best Public Library in the world, a distinction given by the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA).

According to the city council of the Catalan capital, the candidacy of the Barcelona center prevailed over the Public Library Janez Vajkard Valvasor Krškov (Slovenia), the City of Parramatta Library (Australia) and the Shanghai Library East (China).

The vote took place during the IFLA Congress held in Rotterdam (The Netherlands).

This international award recognizes the work and ambition of these spaces for the promotion of reading and thinking.

Opened in May 2022, the Gabriel García Márquez Library specializes in Latin American literature, and bears the name of the Colombian Nobel Prize for Literature, who lived in Barcelona from 1967 to 1975.

It belongs to the Barcelona public library network (which has around forty spaces) and is the first to be built entirely of wood, with a capacity for 40,000 books and audiovisual documents in the room (now it has 32,000) and 10,000 more. On deposit.

In addition, it serves as the headquarters of the KM América Festival of Latin American Literature, which is in its second edition.

The last libraries awarded as Best Public Library in the World were the Missoula Public Library (USA), the Deichman Bjorvika (Norway) and the Oodi Helskinki Central Library (Filandia).

Source: EFE