She says that "no one will be able to separate the image of Saramago and Lanzarote"

Pilar del Río announces that Saramago's house and library in Lanzarote will be converted into a museum

The president of the José Saramago Foundation, Pilar del Río, announced this Saturday that the residence and library of the Portuguese Nobel Prize winner José Saramago in Tías will be converted into a house-museum. Del Río made this announcement ...

October 31 2010 (01:10 WET)
Pilar del Río announces that Saramago's house and library in Lanzarote will become a museum
Pilar del Río announces that Saramago's house and library in Lanzarote will become a museum

The president of the José Saramago Foundation, Pilar del Río, announced this Saturday that the residence and library of the Portuguese Nobel Prize winner José Saramago in Tías will be converted into a house-museum. Del Río made this announcement during the conference that the Mararía women's defense association organizes every year at the Sociedad Democracia de Arrecife.

"The house and the library will be open to the public," she pointed out, "and his readers will be able to find his workplace and see what he saw." "No painting will be moved, nor the objects he loved, nor will the books be moved from the shelves, and the time on the clocks he left will be left as is," Del Río assured.

She pointed out that the Government of Spain, the Ministry of Culture, the Government of the Canary Islands, the Cabildo of Lanzarote and the City Council of Tías are already aware of this decision and that the Saramago House-Museum, "which will have an incalculable dimension", will belong to Lanzarote.

The writer's widow narrated that on a recent plane trip between Lisbon and Brazil, the flight attendant woke her up in case she wanted to see the lights of Lanzarote when they were flying over the Island, and then she realized that "no one will ever be able to separate the image of Saramago and Lanzarote, not companies, not the corrupt, not corrupters, not the media...? "We are not going to dismantle the Lanzarote house built of books," she said to applause from the public."

The artist Ildefonso Aguilar also participated in the Mararía conference, who presented a video dedicated to the Portuguese author, the journalist Carmen Sarmiento, who gave a talk, and on Friday, the director of the César Manrique Foundation, Fernando Gómez Aguilera, who presented the book 'Saramago in his words'.

ACN

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