The Murcia Book Fair proposes this weekend the latest meetings with authors, editors, booksellers and, above all, readers. A lot of curiosity in the street and also about what these objects of multiple sizes and for all sensibilities and preferences, full of printed stories, hide inside. Readers of today and tomorrow will have to discover them because the passion for reading is a latent force that can break out at any time, no matter when or where. Let’s say that Murcia could be that place where this unexpected magical impulse happens.
Reading is, as the Murcian poet Luis Escavy would say, “returning to the convent, or to the memory of the country house.” Precisely Escavy, Latin teacher and winner of the prestigious Adonáis 2022 award, presented this Saturday at the Murcia Book Fair, together with the writer and teacher Emilio Soler, the book ‘Victoria minor’, published by Rialp in the Adonáis Collection. He assured that he does not start writing poems for the sake of writing (“When I talk about my mother or my grandmother, for example, they are not tributes, they are poems for me, it is the way I have of looking”), that thanks to reading he In writing one reaches conclusions (“It seems that one wants to go lighter towards death, it is a feeling that I have”) and that when one shares one’s love with another person one builds “a language that only works with that person, they are languages that are no longer useful.” Author of ‘Another Night in the World’, where there is a union between the Catholic faith and atheism, a difficult balance, Escavy (“shy poet”, Soler defined him) said that he has always had a problem with Sundays: “Any Sunday I get sad, even though we are on vacation, there is a different light on Sundays, that day when you lose the desire to start another week. This Sunday, by the way, the Murcia Book Fair ends at 3 p.m. after nine days of celebration, the last opportunity to recharge on the Paseo Alfonso X El Sabio with stories for the winter.
«As a red point we decided to see if Murcia could withstand ten days of fair, and there are people and movement, with activities that have attracted audiences and that have had an impact, and I believe that Murcia has held up well.»
Jesus Boluda
Director of the Book Fair
The director of the Murcia Book Fair, Jesús Boluda del Toro, told LA VERDAD that one of the great moments of this edition was the one experienced this week with the writer of romantic literature and audiovisual communicator Mercedes Ron, author of the sagas ‘ Guilty’, ‘Faced’, ‘Dímelo’ and ‘Bali’. On Thursday in Murcia, the day of Pilar and Hispanidad, Ron signed 700 copies in four and a quarter hours, the record for this fair, in which Clodett also had a massive response from followers. “Although for me the greatest success is having involved students from 26 primary and secondary schools in activities around the book,” says Del Toro, also president of the Palin Association of Artists and Creators, organizer of this fair.
“As a red point we decided to see if Murcia could withstand ten days of fair, and there are people and movement, with activities that have attracted audiences and that have had an impact, and I believe that Murcia has endured well,” Boluda celebrates. This edition the Fair hosts 83 booths on the Alfonso Cajamurcia and the headquarters of Fundación Mediterráneo.
Glues for ‘Anna Kadabra’
This Saturday there were huge queues at the LA VERDAD booth at the signing of ‘Anna Kadabra’, a collection by Pedro Mañas ideal for first readers ages 7 and up, illustrated by David Sierra. Both worked all morning to respond to the requirements of his followers. Especially signatures, kisses and photos. A light rain surprised around one in the afternoon. By then, UMU professor José Belmonte Serrano, author of the collection of poems ‘Paulina’, published in La Fea Burguesía, had already signed; the Murcian novelist and essayist Javier Moreno, author of one of the best received novels this year, ‘Magnifica desolación’ (Candaya), and Dr. José Abellan, interventional cardiologist and clinical cardiologist at the Santa Lucía university general hospital in Cartagena, the cardiologist most followed on social networks, which invites in ‘What your heart expects from you’ (Grijlabo) to discover the four pillars to live in top shape with iron health.
«We are very happy, it is the third time we are at the Murcia Book Fair and everything we brought from Rulfo flew in the first three days. The silver medal always goes to García Márquez and on this occasion there have been very good sales of Alejandro Zambra’s books.
Andres del Arenal
Novelist and bookseller of the Economic Culture Fund of Mexico
Ana Sánchez, bookseller at the Educania bookstore, confirmed in conversation with this newspaper that these days have been lived “with great expectations” and that at the end of this edition there were “good feelings, despite the fact that the influx of public has been variable.” . Javier García Claver, bookseller at the booth of the Libros Traperos circular bookstore, recalled that for this first time at the Fair they have made a “neopunki” selection with books that are new, such as ‘April 14’ by Paco Cerdá, winner of the II Prize of Non-Fiction Asteroid Books, with others that are not new but are classics for any library such as ‘The Invincible Summer of Liliana’ by Cristina Rivera Garza, in Random House Literature. “Actually, everything we have brought is what we like, it is like our list of Three Wise Men,” Claver assured. María del Carmen Romero, French teacher and member of the Douce Francia association, took, for example, ‘Los divagantes’, by Guadalupe Nettel.
From Mexican to Mexican with exquisite taste, because Andrés del Arenal, novelist and bookseller at the stand of the Fondo de Cultura Económica of Mexico and the Juan Rulfo bookstore in Madrid, has not stopped making suggestions this time: «We are very happy, it is This is the third time we are at the Murcia Book Fair and everything we brought from Rulfo flew away in the first three days. The silver medal always goes to García Márquez and on this occasion there have been very good sales of Alejandro Zambra’s books ‘Children’s Literature’ and ‘Chilean Poet’, and ‘Hurricane Season’ by Fernanda Melchor, as well as the books by the Trama publishing house, which have been well received, as is the case of ‘The art of distinguishing the corny’, by Francisco Silvela, and ‘Against religion’, by Mark Twain.
The following, Cartagena and Seville
The president of the Regional Editors’ Guild, Francisco Marín, editor of Gollarín and La Fea Burguesía, recalled that this fair is one of the most important of the season for authors from the Region of Murcia, which thanks to help from the Institute of Cultural Industries (ICA) of 30,000 euros have been able to participate in other fairs in Spain and bring the literature of authors from the Region of Murcia to cities such as Madrid and Seville, whose Book Fair begins on October 26, the same day that the It also inaugurates the Cartagena Book Fair, which will last until October 29. 22 publishers are part of the Regional Guild, a figure that speaks of the vigor of the sector. «The link with the book has been activated by the administration and that makes us happy; “Having this relationship is already a significant step,” celebrates Marín, who believes that there is still much room to further develop this segment in the Region of Murcia and truly support it as a creative and cultural industry.
This Saturday the Minister of Culture, Carmen Conesa, and the mayor of Murcia, José Ballesta, with the Councilor for Urban Development and Smart City José Guillén, attended the Fair to check out this good festive atmosphere that makes Murcia the capital these days. of the Spanish book. The former president of the Regional Assembly, Alberto Castillo, could also be seen, loaded with news such as two books on the Santa Cruz auroros, as well as writers who have not signed this edition such as the poet and novelist Milagros López and Patricio Peñalver, who will present on October 24 his new novel, ‘Apunten! Fire! Long live the Republic!’, who were lining up to greet Belmonte. The poets Antonio Soto Alcón and Alfonso Pacheco, the actress Inma Martín, the architect Helia de San Nicolás and the singer Alfonso X walked up and down the fair with the official bag of this edition that carries a caricature of Juan Álvarez.
On the last day of the Fair, this Sunday, with Blanca being the invited municipality this year, Blancan authors will have a special role. A trovo meeting, rap, the recital of bandos panochos and traditional theater in the street organized by L’Ajuntaera for the talk, the esturrie and the escarculle la llengua murciana (Sunday, at 11.30 am) complete the program of the Murcia Book Fair 2023. Until October 29, in the La Glorieta exhibition hall, a collective exhibition of artists from the Region of Murcia that pays tribute to the members of the Generation of ’98 can be visited for free.
2023-10-15 02:32:55
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