More than 300 writers will go through the up to 60 booths installed in this edition, which will start on October 6 with Lorenzo Silva and Noemí Trujillo as criers
With 8 days to go before the Murcia Book Fair starts, yesterday some of the details of this new edition were announced, which will be held from October 6 to 12 on Paseo Alfonso X El Sabio and, as a novelty, also in the circular square.
In this fifth edition, 60 booths will be installed –19 more than last year– from 40 different exhibitors, through which more than 300 writers will pass. With this proposal, the intention is to exceed the number of visitors from last year, when 130,000 people attended in 2021 and 35,000 books were sold, as reported yesterday during the presentation of the event’s programming. The event featured Jesús Boluda, director of the fair, writer and founding member of the Palin Association of Creators and Artists; Antonio Benito, Councilor for Education of the Murcia City Council; Encarnación Martínez, president of the Fundación Amigos de la Lectura; and Teresa García, mayor of Calasparra. Another novelty of the fair is the participation of a town from the Region of Murcia as a guest. A role that Calasparra premieres. Editum, the Real Academia Alfonso X El Sabio or the FCE (Fund for Economic Culture) of Mexico will have their own booth.
On October 6, the starting signal will be given with a proclamation by Lorenzo Silva and Noemí Trujillo, at 6:00 p.m. in the Hall of Degrees of the Faculty of Law of the University of Murcia. Lorenzo Silva has won the Nadal award and the Planeta award; while Noemí Trujillo is a poet and writer. Together, they are the co-authors of a series of crime novels – ‘The forge of a rebel’ and ‘If this is a woman’ – with homicide inspector Manuela Mauri as the protagonist. Authors will sign copies of their books that same day and present their latest release to readers.
The youngest readers have a date with Clodett, a Murcian who, at only 11 years old, has more than two million subscribers on her YouTube channel
Among the prominent authors who will visit the Book Fair are Carmen Mola, pseudonym of the writers Jorge Díaz, Agustín Martínez from Lorca and Antonio Mercero, winners of the Planeta 2021 award for ‘The Beast’. The trio of writers will present, on the 7th, ‘Las madres’, the fourth installment of the ‘Gypsy bride’ series. Manuel Vilas, author of ‘Ordesa’ and ‘Alegría’ –with which he was a finalist for the Planeta Prize in 2019–, who has just presented his poetic anthology, ‘Una sola vida’, will also go through this edition.
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35,000
books were sold during the previous edition of the Murcia Book Fair. A figure that is expected to be exceeded in 2022. -
130,000
visitors passed through the booths located on the Alfonso X El Sabio promenade in 2021.
Arturo González Campos will present his book ‘Congratulations on your failure’ on the 11th. The scriptwriter, broadcaster and writer shares different projects with Rodrigo Cortés. This writer and filmmaker will also be in Murcia on the 12th to present ‘Verbolario’, a “satirical, humorous and poetic” dictionary.
I remember Asensio Piqueras
In this fair “of the memory -of Asensio Piqueras, director of Palin and of the Fair in recent editions, who died this year- and of consolidation”, as Jesús Boluda defined this new edition yesterday, the journalist and writer Laura Mas will present her novel ‘Olimpia’, centered on the exciting story of the mother of Alexander the Great, on the 11th. A day in which Carlos Salem will also visit Murcia to publicize ‘Madrid kills us’. A story that will take the reader to the multicultural neighborhood of Lavapiés, “a bomb with several lit fuses” that “will blow up Madrid.”
The Regional Library will host from October 3 to 31 the exhibition ‘Andersen: A trip through Spain’, in which the author’s two visits to Spain are remembered
María Martínez, author of delicate stories that deal with the complexity of emotions and issues such as family and identity, with books such as ‘A song for Novalie’, ‘Words I never told you’ and ‘You and other natural disasters’, will speak with his readers on October 8. On the other hand, cartoonist Salva Espín will sign copies of his comics on the 7th and offer a drawing and comics ‘masterclass’ on the 9th.
Younger readers have a date with Clodett, a Murcian who, at 11 years old, has more than two million subscribers on her YouTube channel. She is one of the most followed YouTubers by children and adolescents on the national scene. Her stories are collected in sagas such as ‘Clodett’s world’ –her latest book is ‘Pharaonic Super Lio’– and ‘The Clodett Mysteries’. Among the youngest writers, Jaime Castillo and Daniela Serrano, two Murcians aged 9 and 11 who are already immersed in the literary world, will visit the fair.
Men Marías -winner of Cartagena Negra 2022- and Mar Moreno -winner of Icue Negro 2022-, the authors of the compendium of stories ‘Dystopia 2: the hand of the dead’, of The Fifth Book, or Joaquín Abenza are other writers of the Region that will attend the event. The latter, director of the Onda Regional program ‘El último Peldaño’ and collaborator of ‘Cuarto Milenio’, has recently published ’50 magical places in the Region of Murcia’, a compilation of haunted locations, ghostly apparitions, UFO encounters… .
Juan Arcones, who achieved popularity with the publication of the illustrated novel ‘Someone for you’; Guillermo Morao, who makes his debut in the literary world with ‘La sastrería de Scaramuzzelli’, a story of unbreakable love for the family and a fable about unlikely coincidences; and the communicator and anti-racist activist Desirée Bela-Lobedde are other writers who will be at the fair.
other spaces
The Regional Library (Brmu) will host from October 3 to 31 the exhibition ‘Andersen: A trip through Spain’, in which the writer’s two trips to Spain are remembered. The first of them took place in 1862. Andersen was no stranger to the romantic current that from 1808 attracted many tourists, adventurers seduced by the topics around the Hispanic character: brave men, dazzlingly beautiful dark-haired women, exotic landscapes and mishmash of multiple civilizations.
The Archaeological Museum will gain presence as the setting for activities with book presentations, a talk-colloquium on the translation sector, a round table on the Murcia Romántica writers’ association and the conference ‘Other ways of reading’, organized by ONCE.
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