The Culture Councilor of the Cabildo de Lanzarote, Jesús Machín, presented this Tuesday morning the most relevant contents of the II Lanzarote Literature Festival, “a key event that shows the solid links between the Tourist Centers and the Cabildo with letters and literature.”
Accompanied by the Councilor for Education and the Publications Service, Ascen Toledo, and by the Director of the Festival, Carlos Battaglini, Machín was responsible for explaining the guidelines of a Festival that “was born spontaneously and has grown with measure and reflection until becoming a social meeting point around literature in a space with such symbolic significance for the island as this Islote de Fermina.”
Under the generic title 'Letters of rofe and salt', the Festival returns to the cultural program of Lanzarote when the echoes of a first edition that left the public wanting more have not yet faded. And it does so “with a cast of top-level protagonists and with novelties, in the form of a training workshop, which seek to awaken the interest of those who could not join us in the first edition and attract the youngest to the universe of the written and read word.”
Ascen Toledo, for her part, encouraged the population to participate in an event that “is a public invitation to listen and interact with emerging and established writers, with young artists and Planeta Awards, even more so in a year in which we are celebrating the 150th anniversary of the birth of Ángel Guerra, one of the great personalities of the archipelago's letters.”
Both Machín and Toledo thanked Battaglini for “the effort and work” to make “this project that reinforces the island's literary offer” a reality.
The program of the II Lanzarote Literature Festival
The director of the Festival detailed the content of an initiative that “has a top-level cast”, and that will start this coming April 25 with a meeting talk with Karina Sainz Borgo, author of La Hija de la Española. The successful Venezuelan writer will talk about the relationship that exists (or not) between journalistic rigor and literary creativity.
On May 23, it will be the turn of the Chilean Paulina Flores, winner of the Roberto Bolaño award with her story Qué vergüenza. El Islote de Fermina will receive Alberto Olmos on June 21 and his presentation Escribirlo todo: de la novela a la columna. After the summer break, the Festival will return on September 26 with Marta Jiménez Serrano, who will share anecdotes and stories of a life linked to literature, first as a student, later as a writer. Álvaro Colomer and Juan Manuel de Prada will participate on October 31 and November 20, respectively, to close the program of this edition. It should be noted that all sessions are scheduled for 7:30 p.m.
Training workshops
One of the great novelties of this edition is the celebration of two training workshops. The first of these will be on September 12, with Natalia Díaz Freire. '¿How to write the landscape?' provides the tools to turn the landscape of the texts into something symbolic, emotionally and metaphorically powerful. For his part, on October 17 Carlos Ortega Vilas will teach '¿How to write a novel?'.
Places to participate in both the talks and the workshops are limited and will be attended in strict order of registration. Those interested in participating in the workshops can register on the festival website.
The news of this initiative of the Tourist Centers can be followed on the Instagram channel @festivaldeliteraturalanzarote.
