The festival will include running a French book exhibition with the appearance of mystery writer Didier Daeninckx, celebrating the 100^th birth anniversary of Leopold Sedar Senghor founder of negritute, and opening a space for young people in the multi-media library of the centre.

The book-reading festival, initiated by the French Ministry of Culture and Communication, is held annually in autumn in France and also at all French cultural centres in more than 100 countries in the world.