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The program of activities for the Spring of the 2017 Book of Molina de Segura, organized by the Department of Culture of the City of Molina, was presented at a press conference on Tuesday 25 April, by the Mayor of the town, Esther Clavero Mira, and The Councilor for Culture, Pedro Jesús Martínez Baños.
The growing weight of Literature in Molina de Segura is reflected in the celebration of the Book Spring, which is held every year in the vicinity of Book Day.
This year, the program of this cultural event will cover from April 25 to May 12 and will feature, firstly, the presence of three first-line authors in the national literary scene, who will visit the city as guests to the Cycle Writers In his ink: Ray Loriga, Ignacio Martínez de Pisón and the caravaqueño Luis Leante, who will hold two consecutive meetings with students of Secondary Education around his youth novel Huye without looking back, brand new Edebé.
Two Moldovan adoption authors, who this year have published in national publishers, will also present their books.
It is Antonio Ruiz Munuera, winner of the 20th Nostromo Novel Prize with Fish Eye, and the youtuber Abbey C., pseudonym of the young Isabel Clemente, whose publisher Aguilar has published Urgent Message to my moments with you.
Also presented are the books Mentula, by Julia Robles, The secrets kept in the silence of the heart, Irel, and In the time of Tito Infante by Antonio Bravo Celiz.
The pianist Pilar Valero premieres in the literary lines with the historical Circle of Fine Arts of Murcia in the street Trapería (1902-1938).
Other events will be the presentation of the number 48 of the veteran magazine Molínea and the denominated Solidarity Firm, organized by Caritas Molina, in which Paco López Mengual and Juan de Dios Hernández Miñano will sign books of their authorship in the Mercadillo located in Calle Mayor, n 69, earmarking the collection for solidarity purposes.
The activities are as follows:
April 25th, Tuesday
20.00 h., Salvador García Aguilar Library (at Avenida del Chorrico, No. 44), XI Ciclo Writers in his ink, with Ray Loriga.
Presents: Lola Grace.
Ray Loriga (Madrid, 1967) is one of the main exponents of the so-called Generation X in our country.
His first novel, The Worst of All, launched him to fame.
Shortly after would come Heroes, inspired by rock and whose title comes from a disc of David Bowie.
This work aesthetically approached the Beat Generation.
He made his film debut in 1997 with La pistola de mi hermano, adapted from his novel Caídos del cielo.
April 27th, Thursday
20.00 h., In Salvador García Aguilar Library, presentation of the novel Ojo de pez, by Antonio J. Ruiz Munuera.
Writers Elías Meana and Paco López Mengual and the photojournalist Paco Salinas intervene alongside the author.
Antonio J. Ruiz Munuera (Lorca, 1966), professor of Secondary in Lorquí, resides in Molina de Segura for 17 years.
Spellbound by the open spaces, climber and amateur to the photography, also has obtained diverse prizes of story throughout the national geography.
Two books have made a leap forward in his literary career: The light of Yosemite (finalist of the 2014 Desnivel Prize and the Setenil Prize 2015) and Fisheye, with which he obtained XX Nostromo Prize of Novel 2016, award that in 1998 Won a sailor also settled in Molina de Segura: Elías Meana.
Fish eye is a black novel, set in a seedy port, sordid, polluted and dark, that pivots around the ecological disaster of Portman and an unsolved murder, and in which there is no lack of brushstrokes of black humor.
May 2, Tuesday
18.00 19.30 h. Mercadillo de Cáritas (former local press Maeso, C / Mayor, n ° 69).
Signing solidarity with Paco López Mengual.
The well-known writer and merchant Paco López Mengual will sign copies of his books in the Mercadillo de Cáritas, which remains open all year.
The proceeds will go to Cáritas Molina with solidarity purposes.
May 2, Tuesday
20.00 h., In Salvador García Aguilar Library, presentation of the book The secrets kept in the silence of the heart, by Irel Faustina Bermejo.
They intervene alongside the author: Marla Sánchez, holistic systemic coach, and guitarist Pedro Garrigós, who will play classical pieces.
A tasting of pomegranate juice will be offered.
Irel (the artistic name of Faustina Bermejo) has combined her work as an actress with the performance of poetic recitals and performances.
Multidisciplinary artist, as poet has published the books El hombre era un monte, Reloj de candela and Alas, among others.
The work he now presents, The secrets kept in the silence of the heart, is a book of self-discovery, understanding, searching and tribute to the ancestors.
The author focuses on the need to heal old wounds and traumas experienced in childhood, in order to grow and help our descendants to break with the old patterns and beliefs that limit us.
May 3, Wednesday
20.00 h., In Salvador García Aguilar Library, presentation of the novel Mentula, by Julia Robles.
They intervene with the author Paco López Mengual and Drag Queen Tina Grammy.
Julia R. Robles (Vigo, 1969), works as a graphic designer in Santo Ángel, where she lives, but her intense literary activity has kept her closely linked to Molina de Segura.
He has obtained numerous prizes of story and published three books of the sort: the beautiful ones should die (Editorial Three Fronteras, 2009), Strange women of blue (XIV Prize Book Illustrated Delegation of Badajoz) and The naked mirror (Editions Glauco, 2013).
His first novel, Mentula, recounts the misadventures of Martina, a woman who one day turns magically into a transsexual.
From that moment, her attempts to adapt to that transformation will drag her into a succession of bizarre, surrealistic situations.
Mentula is a contemporary narrative in humor that hides, in a fresh and simple language, a denunciation against gender discrimination in all its forms.
May 4, Thursday
1st session, at 11.30 am, and 2nd session, at 12.45 pm, in Centro Las Balsas, XI Ciclo Writers in their ink, with Luis Leante.
Presents: Lola Grace.
Luis Leante (Caravaca de la Cruz, Murcia, 1963) jumped to popularity with Mira if I will love you, who won the Alfaguara Prize for Novel 2007. It has 10 novels published, 2 books of stories and 7 of narrative for young people.
Leante returns to the cycle Writers in his ink in his facet of youthful author with the novel Flee without looking back, brand new Edebé Award 2016.
May 4, Thursday
20.00 h., In Salvador García Aguilar Library, presentation of n ° 48 of the magazine Molínea.
The group of writers and writers Molinea comes punctual to this spring appointment with the readers, presenting the latest installment of their magazine.
Almost half a hundred numbers testify to a creative proposal that has not lost its bellows over time.
This number includes, among others, Andrés Giménez, Isabel Grima Campoy, Norma García Coirolo, Bartolo Losa El Rojillo, Irel Faustina Bermejo, Juan Tomás Frutos, Mar de Fondo (Mar García Treviño), José María López Conesa, Abraham Antugna, Julián Gómez de Maya and Juan Espallardo.
May 8, Monday
20.00 h., In the Auditorium Virginia Martínez Fernández (in the MUDEM), presentation of the book The historical Circle of Fine Arts of Murcia in the street Trapería (1902-1938), Pilar Valero.
The pianist Pedro Valero will play music by Chopin and composers from Murcia.
Pilar Valero's long career as a pianist has led her to develop an intense concert activity, playing in places like Italy, Belgium, France, Tunisia, Luxembourg, Germany, Russia and Lubjiana.
Now it shows a new facet of his artistic work: the literary.
In this book he rescues from oblivion one of the most emblematic institutions in the history of Murcia, the Círculo de Bellas Artes, on which weighs an incomprehensible silence.
Created in 1902 by a group of intellectuals and musicians and disappeared in the Civil War, for more than thirty years it was a cultural focus of the first order in multiple disciplines, such as music, art and ballet, emerging from it, among other prestigious artists , The sculptor José Planes and the painter Joaquin Garcia.
May 9, Tuesday
18.00 20.00 h. Mercadillo de Cáritas (former local press Maeso, C / Mayor, n ° 69).
Signing of solidarity, with Juan de Dios Hernández Miñano.
The art historian Juan de Dios Hernandez Miñano will sign copies of his book The Church of the Assumption of Molina de Segura in the Mercadillo de Cáritas Books, an extensive tour of all the artistic elements that make up the most emblematic monument of the town.
The proceeds will go to Cáritas Molina with solidarity purposes.
May 9, Tuesday
20.00 h., Salvador García Aguilar Library, presentation of the book In the time of Tito Infante by Antonio Bravo Celiz.
Intervening with the author: Paco López Mengual.
Antonio Bravo Céliz (Alguazas, 1959) studied in the extinct Labor Universities of Cheste and Cordoba and graduated in Psychology from the University of Murcia.
After 21 years of teaching he claims to have reached this point: "just writing I have an approximate idea of ​​my ignorance and my domains".
In this his second work, In the time of Titus Infante, the author remembers grateful the old school and the attention that dedicated to him to those teachers of first letters.
The book pays tribute to a mythical and idealized time, but not less real, keeping the memory of what Bravo calls "a surviving landscape."
May 11, Thursday
20.00 h., In Salvador García Aguilar Library, in XI Ciclo Writers in his ink, with Ignacio Martínez de Pisón.
Presents: Lola Grace.
Martinez Pisón (Zaragoza, 1960), recent National Narrative Award for Good Reputation (2014), has important awards and about twenty published novels.
One of them, secondary roads, was taken to the cinema twice, in Spain and France.
He is also a screenwriter for the film Las 13 rosas and practices the short story, as his collection of short stories The End of the Good Times (1994) shows.
It is translated into twelve languages.
May 12, friday
20.00 h., In Library Salvador García Aguilar, presentation of the book Urgent message to my moments with you, by Abbey C. (@lachicadelanden).
The poet, Félix Pérez García, participates with the author.
Abbey C. is the pseudonym of Isabel Clemente (Murcia, 1994), who lives in Molina de Segura since the age of 11.
With 15 began to write a blog and soon after began uploading videos to YouTube: his channel La chica del andén already has 200,000 followers.
A good reflection of a current phenomenon that is changing the way of understanding literature, Abbey C.'s success in social networks and the quality of his texts, eminently lyrical, have attracted those responsible for the important Aguilar publishing house.
In the words of its author, Urgent message to my moments with you is "a compilation of feelings: the laziness of Sundays, the rage of Mondays, the resurrection of Tuesdays, how I first saw you in winter, how we fall in love in Spring, how I said goodbye last fall ... "
Source: Ayuntamiento de Molina de Segura
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