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World Book Day 2021: Why Do We Celebrate Book Day
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World Book Day 2021: Why Do We Celebrate Book Day

World book day 2021: Every year on 23rd April, the world book is celebrated as the death anniversary of William Shakespeare UNESCO celebrates it every year. The day encourages the love of reading and books, publishing, and raising copyright awareness. “Our goal is to engage people in reading, and to have fun doing so! As a celebration of this year's World's Book and Copyright Day, UNESCO has created a 'Bookface' challenge," UNESCO said on its website. April 23 is a remarkable day for world literature. Because on this date in 1616 Cervantes, Shakespeare, and Inca Garcilaso de la Vega died. Thus, in 1995 UNESCO decided to celebrate world book day to mark death anniversaries of legends of writing. The day is a tribute to all great writers. It also symbolizes the death anniversaries of sev...