Portal de Turismo de Castilla y León

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November 7, 2024

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The Segovia Public Library in collaboration with the Castilian and Leonese Institute of Language presents a new project by José Ignacio García aimed at continuing to disseminate and promote the names and works of novelists and narrators from the Community of Castile and León.
García focuses his attention and gaze on the generation of writers who are taking over from the sacred cows of contemporary Castilian literature, establishing as a canon that both the male and female authors selected do not reach (or do not exceed excessively) that time barrier of around fifty on their identity documents.
The conference, which will last approximately fifty minutes, is structured in two sections.
The first of these is a brief overview of around thirty names, associated with their place of origin or residence, their work and the awards they have received. The different provinces of Castile and Leon will be represented on this express trip. Among the names that will appear on this high-speed tour are Elvira Sastre, Alberto Olmos, Juan Manuel de Prada, Pablo Andrés Escapa, Pilar Fraile, Violeta Gil, Charo Alonso, Marta Muñiz, Noemí Valiente, Luis Artigue, José Ángel Barrueco, Ignacio Abad, Ángel Vallecillo, Mario Crespo, Rodrigo Martín Noriega, Enrique Llamas, Ana Merino, José C. Vales, Daniel Monedero, the late José Manuel de la Huerga, Emilio Gancedo and Asier Aparicio. This list closes with four really young and exciting promises, Ana Flecha Marco from León, Mateo Martínez Martija from Burgos (Young Art Award, 2024 from the JCyL), Raquel Delgado from Valladolid and Samuel Marina Franco from Palencia.
The second part of this literary train is reserved for eight specific names - four women and four men - who, due to their career, the solidity and variety of their work and their literary category, deserve, in the opinion of the speaker, a specific and more detailed section, a walk through their life, their work and their way of understanding and expressing literature. The female selection is made up of Noemí Sabugal and Susana Barragués Sainz from León, Mar Sancho from Valladolid and Beatriz Alcaná from Béjar, whose novel Teseo en llamas, winner of the 2023 City of Salamanca Novel Prize, was enough to earn the respect of critics and readers. The male block is made up of Alberto R. Torices from León, Óscar Esquivias from Burgos - the youngest winner of the Castile and León Literature Prize in its history - and Rubén Abella from Valladolid and Alejandro Cuevas, the most recent winner of the Critics' Prize of CyL, with their Literatura barata.