Portal de Turismo de Castilla y León

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February 20, 2025

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The last third of the 19th century in the history of Spain was the scene of a large number of political changes that culminated in the loss of the last overseas territories: Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Philippines, the Island of Guam, the Marianas and the Carolinas.

Through a talk, the writer and academic of the Television Academy José Enrique Gil Delgado, invites us to take a trip to the Spanish provinces of the Pacific, focusing on the historical account of that period of time and, to do so, using the documentary base collected for the creation of his latest novel.

José Enrique Gil-Delgado Crespo (Madrid, 1944) is a philologist specialising in English, Spanish, French and Italian. He has dedicated a good part of his professional career to studying the influence that the literary work of Miguel de Cervantes and Francisco de Quevedo had on William Shakespeare. A language teacher for more than 50 years, he has taught languages to staff in companies and institutions. He is the author of novels, plays, poetry and other types of stories. Some of his latest novels - Love in times of coronavirus (2021); Shakespeare and his requested work (2020); have been translated into English. He is also the author of the novels…'and volcanoes in the sea' (2024); '…and Magellan found the strait' (2019); 'Don Quixote inspired Shakespeare' (2017) and 'Shakespeare read Don Quixote' (2016). In addition, he is a member of the Television Academy.