Lana Corujo, writer, illustrator and cultural manager from Lanzarote, participated in the Frankfurt Book Fair, one of the most relevant international events in terms of commercial significance and impact within the publishing sector that is being held in Germany from October 19 to 23. The novelist participated in the literary event "The Voice of the Family".
Corujo was accompanied by fellow writer Marta Orriols and Victoria Torres, moderator of the event and tenured professor at the Seminar of Romance Studies at the University of Cologne. Both novelists discussed the family story as a way to trace the biography of others while writing their own. A literature that uses memory and oral tradition to shape individual and collective identity. Through her collection of poems "Ropavieja", the author from Lanzarote addresses the issue of care in the domestic sphere through the interrelation between three characters.
Lana Corujo is a member of a Canary Island generation of writers who reflect, among other aspects, on identity, relational structures or socio-political dynamics, with the aim of creating bridges between the islands that allow dialogue with different contexts. Currently, she is coordinating the Orbitas Festival, which will be held on October 28 in El Almacén square in Arrecife, where activities will be carried out to develop workshops, talks and a concert that will make visible the cultural programming adapted to youth. On the other hand, she is the promoter and coordinator of "Verbena, Lanzarote Literature Encounter", developed in the CIC El Almacén.
On the other hand, Irene Vallejo, writer, expert doctor in the classical world and popularizer, was in charge of closing the opening ceremony of Spain in which she affirmed that "from its origins, Spanish literature descends from the stained ink of miscegenation and mixing also in its different languages and accents". Vallejo was present in Lanzarote last March in the events of the Centenary of José Saramago and where she also gave a talk on the transcendence of reading in her training and professional career, as well as the importance of maintaining and cultivating the habit of reading in young people and adults.
