The writer Santiago Posteguillo is the next guest of the literary cycle “Mares de papel”, whose meeting will be held this Thursday, August 27, at 9 pm, at the Mirador del Cabezo de la Reya or Bahía del Puerto de Mazarrón.
Premio Planeta 2018 with his successful novel ‘Yo, Julia’, edited the outcome of this saga ‘And Julia challenged the gods’ just a few days before the confinement. Far from harming the situation, her latest novel became the best-seller, delighting readers during those strange days and adding one more success to her already successful literary career.
In Hoy por Hoy Región de Murcia we spoke with Santiago Posteguillo about his stay in Mazarrón, his passion for the history of Rome and the parallels between that Empire and today. Among them, the performance of Galen, Severo and Julia in the face of the smallpox epidemic that ravaged the Roman Empire. The hygiene and social distancing practices that Galeno implemented are, in essence, the same as those being applied in the face of the SARSCOV2 pandemic, with one difference: speed, a lesson that, along with many others, should be learned by the politicians of the history.
The literary cycle “Mares de Papel” is organized by the Department of Culture of the Mazarrón City Council and coordinated by the journalist and writer Lola Gracia, it has been held since July 13 and will end on September 3 with Màxim Huerta.
This window to literature encourages the author to meet his readers and future readers in an event to encourage reading that is held in the open air and with all the precautions and protocols for the prevention of coronavirus.
Thus, the temperature of the attendees and their personal data will be taken, there will be a separation of more than one meter away and the use of the mask will be mandatory throughout the event. Admission is free until full capacity is reached, prior registration at maresdepapel.es
Santiago Posteguillo (Valencia, 1967) is a Spanish writer who has achieved fame for several novels whose plot takes place in ancient Rome. On October 16, 2018, he was awarded the Planeta Prize with his novel “Yo, Julia”.
In his early days as a writer during adolescence, he became interested in the crime novel, but it was in his childhood, at the age of six, that his passion for Ancient Rome was born after visiting the Italian capital and being shocked by what he saw.
Santiago Posteguillo is a philologist, linguist and European doctor from the University of Valencia. He studied creative literature at Denison University, in Granville (Ohio), United States and linguistics and translation in Great Britain.
He is a tenured professor at the Jaume I University of Castellón, where he teaches classes on English literature, especially on 19th century narrative, paying attention, in turn, to Elizabethan theater and the relationship between English and North American literature and cinema, music and other arts.
Despite being able to live off the benefits that his novels bring, he affirms that he is passionate about teaching, which nourishes him and allows him to be in contact with youth, whom he considers an extraordinary source of knowledge.
He has received the Prize for Historical Literature (2013) and the Prize for Valencian Letters, among other awards, his trilogy on Scipio the African launched him to fame and won him thousands of loyal readers.
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