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The author, Finalist of the Planet and Fernando Lara Prize, among other awards, will feature for the presentation with Lorca's math and scientific journalist, Patricia Ruiz Guevara, also awarded the 2018 Boehringer Ingelheim Prize for Journalism in Medicine in the Digital Journalism category
The eyes with a lot of night, Algaida editores, is a black coral novel based on real events that takes place between the Argentine military dictatorship and present-day Spain, while, Before the end of the world, Versatil editions, it is a dystopia for young people that tells through a logbook a beautiful story of futuristic love having as a backdrop the destruction of the planet and the demand for dialogue, word and poetry after a technological blackout.
This Monday, the Cajamurcia Foundation hosts a very special presentation in its Classroom of Culture of Lorca with the last two books published by Emilio Calderón: his novel for adults, The eyes with a lot of night, based on real events and that takes place in two times, the Argentine military dictatorship and the current one, typecast in the black genre and with fascinating characters that lead the reader to be the investigator of history, and his novel for young people, Before the end of the world, a beautiful dystopia that deals with destruction of the oceans and the planet in general after a technological blackout claiming the word, love and dialogue above all things.
Calderón will be accompanied by Patricia Ruiz Guevara, a mathematician and scientific journalist and the Councilor for Culture of the City of Lorca, Nines Mazuecos, among other authorities.
The author, as is tradition, visits Lorca, a city with emotional ties, in his promotional tour that has taken him to many cities of the Spanish geography in the last year such as Madrid, where he lives, Malaga, Seville , Valencia or La Coruña.
THE AUTHOR
Emilio Calderón (Málaga, 1960).
He lives in Madrid for more than thirty-five years.
He is a historian, editor and writer.
It began in the literature with the publication of numerous historical essays.
Subsequently, and for ten years, he devoted himself exclusively to children's and youth literature and published, among others, the crimes continue in Rome, Juliet without Romeo, The Last Crime of Pompeii and The Mystery of the Closed Room, reaping notable successes with around of a hundred reissues of his work.
His first adult novel, The Map of the Creator (Roca Editorial), was published in 2006, after enjoying a scholarship for literary creation at the Royal Academy of Spain in Rome.
This work immediately became an international success and has been published in twenty-three countries.
In September 2007 he published The Secret of Porcelain (Editorial Rock), and in June 2008 The Jew from Shanghai (XIII Fernando Lara Novel Prize, Planet), which has already been translated into English, and whose rights have also been sold in Germany, Holland, Romania, Ukraine and Croatia.
In October 2009 he was a Finalist of the Planeta Prize with the work The Dancer and English, and in November of the same year he was awarded a Silver Microphone from the Association of Radio and Television Professionals for his contribution to the world of culture.
Los sauces de Hiroshima (Editorial Planeta), published in October 2011 and translated into English, closes its "Asian trilogy".
In 2012, with The Human Harvest (Editorial Planeta), the author enters the black genre.
In 2013 saw the light The library (Editors of Zut), an exciting story about books that takes place in the National Library of Spain.
In 2014 he published The Veil of Isis (Ediciones Arconte), a children's story, The Elephant Who Wanted to be an Ant (Carena Editors) and participated in three anthologies, Life After-Movie Tales (Editors of Zut), Unusual Stories (Editions Archon ) and Imaginary, the latter of children's stories.
Circles (Editorial Stella Maris, 2015), has been his latest novel.
On January 14, 2016 he won the II Stella Maris Biography and Memoirs Award, with the work The memory of a man is in his kisses.
Biography of Vicente Aleixandre, becoming the last biographer of the poet and Nobel Prize for Literature.
In 2019 he has published his last two novels, The eyes with a lot of night (Algaida editores) and Before the end of the world (Versatile editions), the latter being a dystopia for young people.
PRESENTER
Patricia Ruiz Guevara is a mathematician and scientific journalist.
After graduating in Mathematics from the University of Murcia, he studied journalism and science and technology communication.
Since then he works in scientific communication, currently in the innovation consulting firm Opinno and the magazine MIT Technology Review in Spanish.
He has published in media such as El Confidencial, El País and Xataka.
Last year he won the 2018 Boehringer Ingelheim Prize for Medicine Journalism in the category of digital journalism, for a report on mathematics applied to the study of cancer.
Source: Agencias
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