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The poet, essayist, short story writer and novelist Juan Bonilla (Jerez de la Frontera, 1966) will meet on Thursday 16 February with more than 800 readers to present his book of stories So many people only (Seix Barral, 2009 Booket, 2011), responding questions and sign books in Mandarache Awards organized by the Youth Council.
The day will begin at 11 am in the auditorium of the UPCT, where he will present his work to 600 high school students as part of this literary jury, composed of 1,500 young people of the city between 15 and 30.
Previously, at 10.30 hours, will give a press conference in the Board Room of the UPCT, Campus of the Sea Wall
The author's journey will continue at 20.00 hours at the Foundation Cajamurcia in Cartagena, where he will meet with university students and readers from reading clubs Libraries, People's University and the University of Elder Affairs UPCT.
The next day, Friday 17, the writer visited the IES Pedro Peñalver, where you will meet students of this center at 10.20 hours, and the IES Salinas del Mar Menor.
Juan Bonilla has developed in almost all literary genres with great appreciation of his work by critics and audiences: from the film adaptation of his novel Nobody Knows Anybody (Ediciones B, 1996), filmed by Mateo Gil, to several books of stories for which he is considered one of the best storytellers of our country alive.
It is also a renowned poet, and some of his novels have received important awards such as the Biblioteca Breve 2003 by The Nubian princes (Seix Barral, 2003) and other European awards.
The piece that is finalist Mandarache So many people alone, won the Mario Vargas Llosa NH 2010 Best Stories anthology published in 2009 and was shortlisted for the Prize LLIBRETER 2009.
Bonilla is the second of candidates for the 2012 Award Mandarache visit Cartagena and competes for the same with Carlos Salem, who presented his novel in December, and Isaac Rosa, who in March in the port city close the cycle of meetings with writers finalists , resulting in the reflection period and the week of voting in April.
So many people only (Seix Barral, 2009; Booket, 2011)
In this book a look that only irony can be defined as metaliterary.
One of his characters is actually lead to a story by Borges, a poet is hired to give a recital at the bachelorette party of a fan, a man collects the memories of people listed in the work Je me souviens, Perec. ..
The protagonists of these stories do not know but they have much in common, and that together they build the fabric of a loneliness that can not be shared.
Crossing the barriers that surround the story, So many people one is a narrative in which people live crazy tragic able to transform their advantage disease or a sum of failures in a great success.
Juan Bonilla enshrined characters and situations with the precision of a watchmaker who dominates the resources of his office.
In his stories there are always surprises, gifts that open new doors to further reading, wit, and, above all, a meticulous care for language.
Without doubt, the best stories of a great storyteller.
Juan Bonilla (Jerez de la Frontera, 1966)
He is the author of the books of accounts that turns off the light (Pre-Text, 1994), The company of the solo (Pre-Text, 2000), the night of Skylab (Oxford University Press, 2000; Booket, 2003), Je me souviens (Algaida, 2005), particular tribute to G.
Perec, the marble stadium (Seix Barral, 2005), and based on real events (Berenice, 2006).
His collaborations in the press are contained in The Art of yo-yo (Pre-Text, 1996), The Wandering Dutch (Ediciones Nobel, 1999), Academy Zarathustra (Plaza & Janes, 1999) and Music Hall (Renaissance, 2002).
He has published also books parties of war poems (1994), The Belvedere (2002) and Box Empty (2006), all in Pre-Texts.
As a novelist are: Nobody Knows Anybody (Ediciones B, 1996), a work that was filmed successfully, Tired of being dead (Oxford University Press, 1998), I am, I you, I'm (Planeta, 1998; Seix Barral , 2004) his first book for young readers, and Nubian Princes (Seix Barral, 2003), awarded the Biblioteca Breve 2003 and has been translated into several languages.
Precisely the French translation has won the Prix des Jeunes littéraire européens 2009.
After the Costa del Sol in the hour pop (Fundación José Manuel Lara, 2007), a lucid and trenchant analysis of the origin of tourism in the area, published a collection of stories So many people only (Seix Barral, 2009), which Prize finalist has been LLIBRETER 2009.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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