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The Sea of ​​Letters, the literary section of La Mar de Músicas, will bring from July 14 to 26 four of the most important figures of Danish literature, whose works have been translated into Spanish.
Kirsten Thorup, Morten Dürr, Lone Theils and Thomas Rydahl will present their works and dialogue with the Cartagena public.
The auditorium of the Museum of the Roman Theater of Cartagena will be the backdrop for the dialogue between authors during La Mar de Músicas in its XXIV edition.
The activities in the Museum will begin on Monday the 23rd with the meeting between the writer Kirsten Thorup and José Manuel Jiménez, author of the acclaimed novel Man without end.
Kirsten Thorup, winner of the Grand Prix of the Nordic Literature Council, will present her latest work, The Little Jonna, in the port city.
It is a work full of realism and imagination in which through the process of growth of Jonna and his personal journey to maturity in the company of his family, the author manages to reflect the changes of a whole society and the work of all those women who, throughout the 20th century, and in the midst of the wars, or after them, had to put themselves at the head of every family, of every home, to move them forward.
On Tuesday the 24th Morten Dürr will present Zenobia, a work that won the Best Comic and Best Children's Comic awards, both awarded by the Ministry of Culture of Denmark, in 2016. Zenobia tells the story of Amina, a Syrian girl, who flees from the war embarking, along with other refugees, in a boat to reach the coast of a country in peace.
But the sea is big and dangerous, while Amina sinks in the depths of the waters relive moments of her life, together with her family, before the horror of war.
The memory of Zenobia, brave warrior and queen of Palmyra, infuses Amina and gives title to this work full of rawness and truth.
Morten Dürr will be accompanied by Isaac Rosa, well-known author of graphic novels.
Thomas Rydahl, winner of the prestigious Glass Key, the prize for the best Scandinavian novel will talk with Rubén Santiago, expert in micro-stories, on Wednesday, July 25.
Ryndahl will come to Cartagena to present Los desaparecidos, a story set in Fuerteventura in which Erhard, a nine-toed Danish elder, leads a hermit's life that will be altered by a television program called Los desaparecidos.
Through the program a famous Danish woman will find her father but will Erhard want to be found?
The last scheduled meeting will have journalism as a common thread.
In him the journalist Lone Theils will present of his first novel, the girls of the Ferry, of the hand of the cultural journalist of the ABC Inés Martín.
The girls of the Ferry has been translated into 13 languages, has sold more than 100,000 copies and with it starts a saga of novels with a fast pace, halfway between the thriller, the black novel and the newspaper report.
The programming of The Sea of ​​Letters will be completed with numerous parallel activities dedicated to Denmark.
On Wednesday, July 18 and Thursday, July 19 will take place the course of literary contextualization Panorama of Danish Literature, an immersion in the letters of Denmark of the hand of the Professor of the Universidad Complutense de Madrid Enrique Bernárdez.
The first week will be the Oceans of Letters route, guided by the painter and poet Antonio Gómez Ribelles who will also accompany the public through the corners of Cartagena that Hans Christian Andersen visited in 1862.
Finally, on Wednesday the 25th, in the morning, you will be able to see on the big screen the documentary Karen Blixen: Behind her mask, about the great Danish author;
and on Thursday, the current editorial world will be analyzed in a talk starring Diego Moreno, from Nordicalibros, and José Alcaraz, from the Balduque publishing house.
All activities are free and open until full capacity is reached.
The Sea of ​​Letters as previous editions is the summer course of the Polytechnic University of Cartagena.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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