Book Day in Santiago with 10 ‘celebrities’ECG+C
One shot out of ten celebrities, celebrities, each in their profession, who live in Santiago or have recently passed through here, such as Rosa Aneiros, Xabier Díaz, Oswaldo Digón, Guadi Galego, Bea Lema, María Mera, Ramoncín, Alberto San Juan, Carlos Tarque and Ana Torrent, propose their favorite readings from EL CORREO GALLEGO. They thus join today the international celebration of Book Day 2024established by UNESCO in 1996. There is also an extra claim: discounts in bookstores.
The cultural activism of Luisa Villalta
To Rosa Aneiros, journalist and writer who works at the Consello da Cultura Galega (CCG) and presented her new novel weeks ago, A night of onionswe ask for a portrait of Luisa Villalta (A Coruña, July 15, 1957- March 6, 2004), author to whom this year the Galician Letters Day (May 17): “I met Luisa and I remember that she was all light. When reading her work at many times it is cryptic or difficult, but how harsh it was sometimes with her words you lost in dealing with her. Luisa was extremely kind and generous. And apart from her work, I want to claim that she was an author who was involved in all the battles. He had great cultural activism and she was very generous with the younger people, she read to us, she recommended us, she talked a lot with us and treated us one on one, without any type of paternalism, something that was very important for the people who were starting out in literature at that time. ”.
Xabier Díaz, on tour with a folk album called Help me to feel, looks towards Latin America: “I have come from rereading an important part of the work of Gabriel Garcia Marquezand I would say as a recommendation The story of a castawaywhich is also based on a true story,” explains the musician based in Brión about that fictionalized report that tells the story of Luis Alejandro Velasco Sánchez, a recreation that, after being published in installments in the Colombian newspaper The viewerlater had its own entity as a book.
Oswaldo Digón, actor from Lugo with a partner from Compostela, whom we have also seen lately with his show Live Longing (with guitarist Luis Tinaquero) what in Sybaristhe posthumous play of the longed-for writer Domingo Villarenlarges the list of propositions to read in the thread of this Book Day 2024: “I would recommend reading about scientific dissemination, for example, the latest by Xurxo Mariño, Neurons for emotion”, he clarifies.
Comic and poetry
Guadi Galego, another great voice of folk in Galicia, opts for verses: “Of current Galician poetry, I could recommend all of it because what is being done today is very powerful,” says the person who was part of the presentation in Santiago de Ferreñas and Rock and Rollby Laura Romero and Iria Pedreira, edited by Baía Editions.
Bea Lema, award-winning comic author for The body of Christ and one of the protagonists in Santiago of the exhibition Punctum (Auditorio de Galicia) with his work and that of Maru Astray, Julia Lago, Uxía Larrosa, Xulia Pisón and Pepa Prieto, gives this pair of titles: “A novel, Nothing opposes the night, by Delphine de Vigan. And I add a comic, Magantaby Lola Lorente.”
Maria Meraactress who presents Xigante NightGalician Television contest, is a fan of Borja Vilaseca: “I would recommend all of his books, to name one, for example, The common nonsense“, he points out before showing affection for someone closer: “Any book by María Solar is recommended.”
José Ramón Julio Márquez Martínez (Ramoncín), who in 2006 received a Diamond Record after exceeding one million copies sold In his career, apart from writing songs, he has written poems as well as a guide to Madrid and even a Cheli slang book, and he thinks this way: “I’m reading Cunnus. Sex and power in Rome, by Patricia González Gutiérrez, highly recommended. And I will also say The Lady of Shalott and other poems, by Alfred Tennyson.
The Madrid actorAlberto San Juan, winner of two Goya awards, among other recognitions, who will tour with the play in 2024 Male screams, opts for a journalist, after all he studied and pursued that profession, before devoting himself to acting. “I liked it The call (A portrait)by Leila Guerrierowhich addresses a true story that helps combat forgetfulness and remember the kidnappings in Argentina of the ESMA, the Navy Mechanics School.
From Rosa Montero to Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Carlos Tarque, singer and leader of the group MClan, with his own career, chooses a book in tune with the current climate in international politics: “I recommend Slaughterhouse fiveby Kurt Vonnegut Jr. They gave it to me the last time I caught the flu and it has to do with these days of bombings and massacres that we are experiencing. He is an ironic author who was in World War II. It is a cool and original book that he published in the 50s. It is an anti-war novel.”
AND Ana Torrent, Madrid actress winner of the grand prize of the Cineuropa festival in Santiago celebrated last fall, completes the list of proposals for this Book Day: “I have read The danger of being sane, by Rosa Montero, and I recommend it. It seems very important to me to talk about the topics she deals with, mental issues and people who are different.”
How many books are published per year?
In Spain they are published every year 92,000 titles with ISBN, According to what the Ministry of Culture said last June, “a figure that, in proportional terms, is one of the highest in the world,” Santiago Alba Rico told this newspaper when presenting his book ‘De la morale tierra entre las niños’ here.
