MURCIA. The Caravaca de la Cruz Book Fair 2024which will be held from June 15 to 23will arrive accompanied by more than a dozen parallel activities related to the promotion and encouragement of reading. This event, organized by the City Council, has been presented by the Councilor for Culture, Joaquin Zaplanatogether with the technical staff of the Municipal Public Library.
“The fair will be a great meeting for readersbeing able to know first-hand more than twenty outstanding national, regional and local authorsthrough meetings and signatures that we will celebrate in the House of Culturea few meters from The Slidewhere the booksellers’ and publishers’ booths will be located,” highlighted the mayor of Culture, who announced that “on the occasion of the Jubilee Year 2024in Caravaca some will meet 200 members of the reading clubs of the Region of Murcia“.
Besides. He added that “the fair’s programming takes into account the children and youth audiencewith story-telling and games related to books.” In this sense, the councilor has made reference to “the continued work that is carried out throughout the year by the Municipal Library to promote the reading habit from an early age.”
The Book Fair programming begins on Saturday, June 15, at 8:00 p.m., with the meeting with Gonzalo Giner and the presentation of his latest book The Shadow of Dreams. Giner, Spanish veterinarian and author, achieved literary success in 2008 with The horse healer. After publishing several works, in 2020 he was the winner of the Fernando Lara Novel Prize with The Green Mist.
On Sunday, June 16, at 12:00 p.m., the day will begin with the boys and girls as protagonists with ‘Gabriela Storyteller’. At 8:00 p.m., there will be the meeting with Monserrat Albulmahanwho will present his latest book When the sky was blue.
On Monday, June 17 at the Book Fair there will be Manuel Vilas, who will star in a meeting at 8:00 p.m. This Spanish poet and novelist was a finalist in 2019 for the Planeta Prize with the work Happiness and winner of the Nadal Prize in 2023 for Us. His best-known novel is Ordesapublished in 2018.
On Tuesday, June 18, at 8:00 p.m., it will be the turn of Jose Costawho returns to the Caravaca Book Fair to present his latest book Physics for murderers.
The agenda will continue on Wednesday, June 19, at 7:00 p.m., with the book presentation Isidro: story of the Albatera concentration campof Isabel María Abellán. Next, at 9:00 p.m., a meeting will be held with the Madrid writer and journalist Nativel Preciadowho will talk about his latest book Words for Olivia. Nativel Preciado has numerous journalistic and literary recognitions. She was a finalist for the Planeta Prize in 1999 and the Azorín Novel Prize in 2021, among others.
On Thursday, June 20, at 8:00 p.m., the programming will continue with the writer and professor of Art History at the University of Murcia Miguel Angel Hernandezwhich will talk about his many novels and essays.
On Friday, June 21, at 8:00 p.m., the writer and journalist Ignacio Ramosa native of the district of Barranda, will present his book on The dusk and the dawn.
The day of Saturday, June 22, brings various activities for children and adults. These will begin with initiation games at role-playing games and board games, which will take place from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. on La Corredera promenade. At 12:00 p.m., the baby stories ‘Color Stories’, an activity especially intended for children from 0 to 36 months. At 5:30 p.m., there will be the talk ‘From the crime of the role to criticizing the Role’, run by the Caravaca Minstrels Guild Association. The games will then resume.
The programming on Saturday the 22nd will end with the meeting with the Barcelona writer Enrique Vila-Matasauthor of thirty works that have earned him 24 awards, scheduled for 8:00 p.m.
On Sunday, June 22, the programming of the Caravaca Book Fair 2024 will come to an end with the signature of several authors, in the La Corredera booths. Specifically, they will sign copies, from 11:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., Maria Albertus (Grazalema’s letter), Luis Barbera (Umayyads and The Visigoth), Jesus Canovas (The slimy guy, My whole life killing fools and now I go and get involved in a conspiracy and other stories from the confinement) and Juan Francisco Díaz Navarro (Death in Águilas, The Italian Connection and Gypsy Queen). In addition, several authors from the Elche Writers Association.
The boys and girls will also have their own closing of the Book Fair with the children’s story illustration workshop led by Vicente Marco, scheduled for Sunday the 23rd, at 12:00 p.m. This activity is especially aimed at minors between the ages of 7 and 11.
All events will take place in the assembly hall of the ‘Emilio Sáez’ House of Culture. The book sales booths, located on La Corredera promenade, will be open from 11:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. and from 6:00 p.m. to 9:30 p.m., from June 15 to 23.
Coinciding with the opening day of the Book Fair, Caravaca de la Cruz will be the venue on June 15, VII Regional Meeting of Reading Clubswhich moves to the city on the occasion of the Jubilee Year 2024 and in which the participation of about 200 people from different municipalities is planned.
During this day, the clubs will participate in the activity ‘Experiences of personal transformation through shared reading.’ In addition, a program composed of various talks has been planned, such as the one entitled ‘The power of reading’ by the Caravaca writer Miguel Sánchez Robles or ‘Histories and legends of Caravaca de la Cruz’ by the historian Diego Marín Ruiz de Assin . A jubilee pilgrimage and guided tours of the Municipal Museum Network will also be held.
