The programming of the festival La Mar de Músicas, within its own section La Mar de Letras, has developed a storytelling workshop in the Palacio Molina, for 19 and 20 July, which was presented this morning by the Councillor for Culture Rosario Montero, who has emphasized the importance of fiction and of the basic techniques of narrative and short story.
Together with the Councillor, the actor and teacher of storytelling workshop, Consuelo Trivedi, explained that the basic techniques used in this genre aimed, above all, the story and the short story are to structure a story, make our characters and manage time and fictional space.
People attending the workshop read and discussed stories of writers like Luis Fayad, Jorge Luis Borges or own Trivedi, and micro-stories.
The workshop will be held at the Palais Molina in the morning, from 11:00 to 12:30 hours.
CONSUELO TRIVIÃ'O
Trivedi, born in Bogotá, 1956 is a fiction writer and essayist Colombian living in Madrid since 1983.
After her PhD at the Complutense University with a thesis on the controversial Colombian writer José María Vargas Vila, in 1988 he returned to Bogotá where he remained three years engaged in teaching Spanish Literature at universities.
In Madrid collaborates with the magazines New Notebooks Estafeta Hispanic-American Literary and book reviews.
Based in Spain taught at the university, participates in research projects and publishes articles and books on Hispanic American authors and themes, leaving the project linked to the Instituto Cervantes.
Currently working with the cultural supplement ABCD Arts and Letters of ABC.
As narrator has published seven stories, banned from the road (novel), The eye of the needle (stories), José Martí, love of freedom (biography), House impossible (stories), The Seed of Wrath (novel ) and an island on the Moon (novel).
His stories have been translated into other languages and included in numerous anthologies and journals internationally recognized as pure story, Caravelle, L'Ordinaire Latinoamericaine, Barcarolle and Torre de Papel, among many others.
Won first prize in the National Storybook University of Tolima (Colombia) in 1976 with the book many fairy tales and was a finalist in literary competitions as the Eduardo Caballero Calderon de Novela, Colombia, with Gay out the street in 1996.
The toughest critics have praised the depth of his prose and terse writing, which places it among the highest projection narrative voices, outside the commercial circuits.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena