On a day marked by the great names of Spanish literature, the Tomares Book Fair has hosted a splendid encounter with the prestigious writer Julia Navarro. He arrived at the Rafael de León Municipal Auditorium to present his book ‘The boy who lost the war‘(Plaza & Janes), in a conversation with the journalist Mabel Mata.
This is the eighth novel that is undoubtedly one of the most successful writers of The entire 21st century In the Spanish literary panorama, and that at the beginning the talk he wanted to make a curious confession: “Thanks to all of you for being here, really, because I am going to make a confession, in an afternoon like this, with so much rain, I would not leave my house myself.” A writer who joins a very special relationship with the Sevillian town, since she explained how “two of my best friends live here, if I don’t call me the Tomares fair, I have a disgust.”
Navarro explained how he enjoys in a very prominent way of this type of events and Encounters with readersensuring that “writers are nothing without readers, I also wake up much curiosity to know how my book has read each reader.”
The writer revealed that she has carried out an outstanding journalistic research process to write her latest book, which focuses on the history of one of those three Spanish children who After the civil war They were sent to Russia in search of freedom but also found themselves before a hard panorama in a very totalitarian regime. He explained that “it is a hard book, in which the story of children who as their parents had lost war is told, they also lost it.”
Julia Navarro during the presentation of her latest book at the Tomares Book Fair
Víctor Rodríguez
Julia Navarro made a lit Defense of the Humanitiesspecifying that the subjects of humanities «cannot be filler subjects, as it seems many times that they are in the Spanish education system. It would clearly suspend all the ministers of education in this country ».
In the time of populism and promotion of totalitarianism, Julia wanted to highlight as “the humanities are necessary tools To develop critical thinking. In literature is the entire essence of the human condition ».
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