Monzón has lived this midday the prologue to what will be the XXVI edition of the Aragonese Book Fair (FLA) -to be held next weekend- with a telematic reading of the proclamation by the poet Ángel Guinda, whose name, like that of the authors Ana Alcolea and Luis Zueco, thickens the Paseo de las Letras created last year coinciding with the silver anniversary of the most relevant event in Aragonese literary culture. The aforementioned authors join José Luis Corral, Javier Sierra, Luz Gabás, Antón Castro and Sandra Araguás. All of them have their names engraved on a steel sculpture, an open book that make up a new walk in the city of Cinca.
Angel Guinda is the first poet to appear on this walk as pointed out by one of the fair’s co-directors, the Language and Literature teacher, Olga Asensio, who indicated that “we should be dazzled because despite all the difficulties we have three new authors such as Ángel Guinda, Luis Zueco or Ana Alcolea, whose last book is titled ‘Margarita’s Brindis’. I want to make a toast to Monzón and hope we enjoy the FLA a lot next weekend ”.
In his speech, he is considered one of the best Aragonese poets with the greatest national recognition, vindicated the right to a decent job “to make so many other dreams possible”, to exercise the use of the word “as a living being” and to enjoy books as “generator and regenerated of life. It is written because it is lived and also because it has been read. A book is the key to imagination, the path of wonder, a thing that waits for us to inhabit it, a journey. Books found us, they make us more and better people. Reading is not being alone, but living, living together, reliving ”.
They also thanked Ana Alcolea for their respective tributes, who was already a proclaimer of the fair, and who was in Viking land and the author of historical novel Luis Zueco, that due to work he could not travel to Monzón, being the first time he has been absent since he published his first book in 2011.
Commitment to return to the Bridge
Both the mayor Isaac Claver and the Councilor for Fairs of the Monzón City Council, Miguel Hernández, highlighted the bet that has been done from the Consistory by In a year full of difficulties due to the pandemic, continue to celebrate this contest that will allow to reactivate the publishing sector and bring literary culture closer to all attendees who come next weekend to the Cortes de Aragón car park, looking for a wide, covered and safe space that allows a one-way circuit.
About him change of fair dates, which were always held on the bridge of the Constitution, given the celebration today of a similar contest in Zaragoza and in order not to force the publishing sector to choose, Councilor Hernández indicated that this year “Monzón has been generous” and assured that the next edition of the FLA will be held on the usual dates: “Let no one doubt that we will always be on these dates of December 6, 7 and 8 and this year we will have a responsible fair.”
The mayor highlighted the effort to carry out a fair “much more complicated and difficult. The Aragonese Book Fair continues to be the buque insignia of our Fair Institution and that nobody doubts that we are going to lose these dates. Today is our inauguration and the fair will continue next weekend as a benchmark for culture ”.
The fair will bring together about 25 authors
Among the novelties, the presentation of a web portal that will bring together the entire Aragonese literary culture, with writers, libraries, reading clubs, editorials, streaming presentations, forums … and that will be released next weekend.
The opening will be both in the morning and in the afternoon, with closing at 8:00 p.m., there will be capacity control and all visitors must respect health measures to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.
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