The Councilor for Education of the City of Lorca, Francisco Montiel, announced the celebration during the month of February of two new sessions of "Encounters with Author", activity of promoting reading organized by the Network of Municipal Libraries of Lorca.
El Edil stressed that "in collaboration with the Editorial Anaya we will have the presence of the writers Ana Alonso and Gabriel García de Oro, who will present their works to 600 schoolchildren from different Lorca centers of Primary Education in the Children and Youth Library, located in The Cultural Center The poet and narrator Ana Alonso will announce her book Before midnight on Wednesday, the 7th, while García de Oro will present the work School of Superheroes to students of 5th and 6th grades on the 15th and 16th. .
Ana Alonso was born in Terrasa in 1970. She has published eight poems and, among others, she has received the Hyperion Poetry Prize (2005), the Critical Eye Poetry Award (2006) and, recently, the Antonio Machado Prize in Baeza (2007) and the Alfons el Magnà nim Valencia Prize for poetry in Spanish (2008).
Between his books directed to the infantile and juvenile public, besides the writings next to Javier Pelegrín (the key of the time, Yinn), we emphasize the collection Pizca de Sal, directed to the Primary Education.
Gabriel García de Oro was born in Barcelona in 1976. Despite being a graduate in Philosophy he ended up dedicating himself to advertising, for which he has won numerous awards.
He is currently Executive Creative Director at OgilvyOne, one of the leading agencies in relationship marketing and responsible for well-known campaigns such as "El monstruo", for ING Direct.
He combines this activity with the writing of children's, youth and non-fiction books, at the same time as he is a regular contributor to El País Semanal.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca