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Diplomatic Quiz: International Book Day

27 Apr 2018

As we have already advanced you through our Social Networks, we start a new monthly section in the CEI, the #QuizCD: The Quiz of the Diplomatic Career.

 

Each month we will share questions that appear or may appear in the tests of the examinations to Join the Diplomatic Career, in this way you will know much better the world of the Diplomacy and the International Relations, and also you will test your knowledge of general culture.

 

The correct answer to the first question of the recently inaugurated Quiz of the Diplomatic Career:

 

“What deaths are commemorated on April 23, International Book Day?”

 

There were 3 possible answers, and only 20% of the participants had the answer right. The correct choice was: is commemorated the anniversary of the death of Shakespeare, Cervantes and Inca Garcilaso.

 

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The answer that has taken most votes has been the commemoration of the anniversary of the death of Shakespeare and Cervantes, as it is the most popularly known.

But truly, UNESCO declared in 1995 that the 23rd of April would be the International Book Day, commemorating the day in which Cervantes, Shakespeare and Inca Garcilaso died, all of them in 1616. In this sense, the concrete denomination that granted the UNESCO to date was: International Book and Copyright Day.

 

Inca Garcilaso is the least known of the three authors. This writer, of Peruvian origin, is considered the most emblematic representative of Hispanic-American miscegenation as a cultural process and as a stimulus for creative.

 

UNESCO also took into account that April 23 corresponded to the birth or death of other prominent authors such as Maurice Druon, Haldor K. Laxness, Vladimir Nabokov, Josep Pla and Manuel Mejía Vallejo.

 

UNESCO’s intention in commemorating this day was and continues to be to encourage everyone, especially young people, to discover the joy of reading and to value the irreplaceable contributions of those who have promoted the social and cultural progress of humanity.

 

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