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The winner of the Premio Planeta brand by Tiff cats will meet with the media at 13.30 pm in the Bar San Nono de Murcia
The writer Eduardo Mendoza, who recently won the Planeta Prize for his novel Cat Tiff, Madrid 1936, is the next guest of the Writers Literary Encounters cycle in ink 2011 in Molina de Segura, organized by the Ayuntamiento de Molina de Segura, in collaboration with the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of the Region of Murcia and La Caixa.
The meeting will take place on Thursday 10 March at 20.00 pm in the Library Salvador García Aguilar (in Chorrico Avenue, No. 44).
Previously, at 13.30, Mendoza will meet with the media at the Bar San Nono (in Calle Antonio, No. 28) of Murcia, where he will be accompanied by the Councillor of Culture of the City of Molina de Segura, Mariola Martinez Robles, and the Coordinator of the literary cycle, Lola Grace.
In his meeting with readers, review some of the characters in his works, from the last character of cats ... Tiff, Anthony Whitelands (Vellums for castizos) to the alien who seeks desperately Gurb Gurb No news or Onofre Villa, born social climber who acts as master of ceremonies in the city of wonders, a novel that shows the social and urban evolution of Barcelona between the two expositions of 1888 and 1929, considered by critics as his masterpiece .
Eduardo Mendoza (Barcelona, 1943), a translator by profession, he jumped into the literary world in 1975 with The Truth About Savolta case, a work originally titled Soldiers of Catalonia, and had to change his title because of problems with censorship Franco .
It is considered by many the first novel of the democratic transition.
The author of the amazing journey of Pomponio Flato highlights from his literary beginnings by skillfully using different languages and narrative styles.
This first novel won the International Critics Prize, but the most winning of his career is the city of wonders, with the City of Barcelona Award, Best Book of the Year, the magazine Lire (France), finalist in Grinzane Cavour fiction category and finalist in the Prix Medicis and Femina (France).
Mendoza also has the Silver Pen Award (2009) or the award of the readers of Elle magazine, for the Year of the flood.
Several works by this author have been made into films, in addition to the city of wonders (probably the most successful adaptation of his novels, directed by Mario Camus and starring Emma Suarez and Olivier Martinez), also came to the big screen Savolta truth about the case, the Crypt and the year of the flood.
Jerome Tristant, Care Santos and Jorge Bucay are the other writers who this year make up the lineup of writers in their ink 2011.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Molina de Segura
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