Literature. From today to Sunday there will be 47 stands on the Plaza de España where Benjamín Prado, Pedro Olalla and Nativel Preciado, the harbinger of this edition, will pass
The Cartagena Book Fair starts today, at 12.30 pm, in the hands of the mayor, Noelia Arroyo, after too long a hiatus (13 years!) in the Plaza de España, with 47 stands for the who will pass until Sunday evening at least 130 confirmed authors. Among them Nativel Preciado, who will deliver the opening speech this afternoon at 6 p.m. An hour later, the writer and journalist presents her novel ‘The Elephant Sanctuary’ (Planeta), winner of the Azorín Novel Prize 2021, at the Nuevo Teatro Circo. At 7.30 pm Benjamín Prado will present his novel ‘The two kings’ (Alfaguara), in the presentation room set up at the fair (website https://feriadellibro.cartagena.es/). For this edition, organized by the City Council of Cartagena and coordinated by María del Carmen Rodal Rodríguez, head of the Cartagena Library Network, we will see recognizable faces in the publishing world such as Máximo Huerta, Pablo Rivero, Pedro Olalla, Fernando Da Casa , Blas Ruiz Grau and Joaquín Araujo, among many other authors, who will share the space with a plethora of local novelists, essayists and poets and from the rest of the region, such as Emilio Tomás, María Teresa Cervantes, Luis Miguel Pérez Adán, Antonio Parra Sanz , Ana Ballabriga, Beatriz Sánchez del Álamo, Paco López Mengual, Amelia Castilla, Montserrat Abumalham, José ngel Castillo, Antonio Marín Albalate, Antonio Soto Alcón, Alma Mínguez, JR Barat and Teresa Vicente.
On Friday, October 21, Pablo Rivero will be with ‘La cria’, a black novel presented at 6 p.m. at the Nuevo Teatro Circo. At 7:00 PM Pedro Olalla will present “Words from the Aegean” at the Roman Theater Museum and at 8:00 PM Estefanía Chereguini will present the “Rastro del Ocre” at the fair.
On Saturday October 22, Juan Tranche will sign his novel ‘Spiculus’ in the presentation room of the fair. At 7:00 PM, Joaquín Araujo tells why he did ‘Somos Agua Que Pensa’ in Ambigú in Nuevo Teatro Circo. Máximo Huerta will unravel his novel ‘Goodbye, small’ at 8 p.m. at the Nuevo Teatro Circo.
“We are going to organize a lot of children’s activities”, says the coordinator of the Book Fair, together with Belén Carrascosa, “because we think it is very important that children celebrate these days. It’s an learning time and we want to capture it with workshops such as ‘bookmark your favorite writer’, an open-air library, book swapping and dancing. We think that’s a strong point.” Animation activities for children will be carried out by the Oxigenarte group. October is the month of the fairs in Cartagena. Those of youth and commerce have already been celebrated, and from today until Sunday the Book Fair takes the about.
“It’s a big effort, but we want those who visit us to leave happy and read a lot. Cartagena is a literary city, with festivals (Cartagena Negra, Historical Novel Week…), with the Mandarache Awards, which will be at the fair with Mandarache radio. We will fill it with young people and students from schools and higher education institutions, so that they get to know and enjoy the fair”, says Rodal. The municipal network of libraries has ten centers in Cartagena.
Source: La Verdad
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