The National Reading Council began this Thursday, in the modernist Hospital de Sant Pau, the Plan Nacional del Llibre i la Lectura, with a meeting chaired by the Minister of Culture, Natàlia Garriga, and the Minister of Education, Josep González-Cambray. This council, made up of fifty representatives from the world of books and reading in the cultural and educational field, has validated the so-called driving group and the ten working groups that will first make a diagnosis and then their proposals to properly prepare the plan. Next, the driving group will be in charge of defining it and the council will have to validate it, with the forecast that on April 20, before Sant Jordi, it will be approved.
After the meeting, Garriga explained that although the plan reaches 2030, in 2025 "you have to start noticing that it already has an effect". That will also depend on the budgets that are approved annually, and he insisted that the allocation for culture should be closer to the 2% demanded by the sector. The preparation of the plan is coordinated by Montse Ayats from the Institució de les Lletres Catalanes.
The ten areas that the plan will address are: information, data and research on books and reading – the Minister has insisted that there is still little data and they are essential to establish the diagnosis in the other aspects of the plan; initial access to reading; diversity and inclusion; literary creation –we must advance in the professionalization of writers, Garriga pointed out–; reading spaces; mediation; the role of the private sector; book and reading promotion; the recognition, revaluation and prestige of the creators and of the book; visibility in the media and social networks.
Catalan version, here
