Signature of Claudia Luna Palencia at the Madrid Book FairIT
The Spanish-Mexican writer, journalist and economist, Claudia Luna Palencia participated in the Madrid Book Fair last Saturday, June 15, with a signing of the second edition of her book of stories ‘The Rescue of Turtle Pepe’, by Editorial Algorfa , in booth 37 of the Juan Rulfo Bookstore.
Readers of his novel ‘El club de la naphtalina’, set in Madrid in 1999 and which addresses the loneliness of older people in a mortgaged Spain and in the midst of a real estate boom, also came. The story is based on a real-life event and reflects the change that Spanish society, especially Madrid, was experiencing, and that, years later, would give rise to most of the problems that persist in the present.
Luna Palencia is the granddaughter of Julián Palencia González, who had an active participation in Almería in favor of the Republic and would end up in a forced labor camp in Bou Arfa, in Algeria, destined for the construction of the Trans-Saharan Railway. She arrived in Mexico as a political refugee. She has Spanish nationality by origin and has lived in Spain for various periods, until settling permanently in Malaga, although she works in Madrid as a journalist and correspondent at the Moncloa and is an expert on geopolitics and geoeconomics.
She is currently president of the Casa de México in Malaga and Andalusia and has received various awards for her work. Those who know her define her as a “very special” person with outstanding emotional intelligence.
Claudia Luna Palencia signed books of her children’s story at the Madrid Book Fair.
Literary race
His books do not go unnoticed. The filmmaker Ana Laura Calderón, winner of an award in Spain for Corazón de Mezquite, is making the film adaptation of the novel “El club de la naphtalina”.
Regarding her story, ‘El Rescate de la Tortuga Pepe’, by Editorial Algorfa, reaches its second edition thanks to the drawings of the talented Malaga native Cristina Guzmán. It is a story written in rhymed verse that Luna Palencia wanted to share with her daughter Claudia Genoveva Loret de Mola, which has resulted in a sparkling story that she captures from the first page.
Next Wednesday, June 19, at 6:30 p.m., he will present the second edition of his story in Malaga at Keyzen Soho, at Casas de Campos 15. The presentation will be carried out by Malaga journalist Manolo Reina.
