New Delhi. The whole world celebrates 23 April every year as ‘World Book Day’ and due to this, ‘World Book Day’ is being celebrated once again on Saturday, 23 April. This time the 25th edition of World Book Day will be celebrated. The decision to celebrate this day was taken by UNESCO for the first time in the year 1995, since then this day is being celebrated. The purpose of celebrating this day is to make people interested in books. Books, which are an important part of our life, due to the expansion in the field of technology, most of the youth of today have distanced themselves from books. In the lockdown during the Corona period, many big celebrities had revealed that due to the lockdown, they got a chance to spend time with books and read different types of books, which gave them a new way of looking at things. . But do you know why 23rd April was chosen to celebrate World Book Day? The reason for this is that many prominent writers were born on this day and some great writers also took their last breaths on this day. Famous writers ‘Manuel Mejia Vallejo’ and ‘Maurice Drun’ were born on 23 April, while the great dramatists ‘William Shakespeare’, ‘Miguel de Cervantes’ and ‘Josep Playa’ died on 23 April. For this reason 23 April is celebrated as World Book Day.
UNESCO and its other affiliated organizations choose ‘World Book Capital’ for the coming year on ‘World Book Day’, with the aim of organizing events related to books for the next one year, which will lead to new opportunities to come. To create awareness among the readers about the books. Every country has a different way of celebrating World Book Day. On this occasion, books are distributed free of cost at some places, and various competitions are organized among the people. The Reading Marathon is organized for two days on this occasion in Spain, which is very famous all over the world.