The writer Carmen Amoraga talks with her readers in an initiative of the General Directorate of Culture and Heritage that has already brought the youthful author Silvestre Vilaplana to the city
Benidorm organizes a new meeting of the 'Llegim als pobles' campaign
Benidorm has hosted today a new session of the 'Llegim als pobles' campaign, which seeks to promote reading through direct contact between the authors and the public. On this occasion, the writer Carmen Amoraga has been the protagonist of the meeting, with which the Department of Historical and Cultural Heritage collaborates and which is part of the campaign promoted by the General Directorate of Culture and Heritage of the Generalitat Valenciana.
A meeting was held in the Assembly Hall of the Town Hall and attended, among others, by the Councilor for Historical and Cultural Heritage, Ana Pellicer, who has been in charge of presenting Amoraga, ensuring that for Benidorm "it is a pleasure" to have with their presence and actively participate in the 'Llegim als pobles' campaign.
Pellicer highlighted the "recognized literary background" of the author of Picanya, winner of the Nadal Award in 2014 with the novel 'La vida era eso' and who was a Planeta finalist four years earlier with 'El tiempo mientras tanto'; she invited attendees to enjoy the opportunity offered by this meeting to establish "that more intimate contact that does not usually occur between the one who imagines and writes these stories and the one who reads, reimagines and reinterprets them".
For just over an hour, Amoraga spoke with her readers, reviewed her beginnings and career in the world of writing, and addressed her relationship with literary awards. The author, who is also the general director of Culture and Heritage of the Generalitat Valenciana, explained that "you learn to write by reading" and thanked Benidorm for the invitation to participate in this meeting and her participation in 'Llegim als pobles' .
Carmen Amoraga's is the second session of the campaign in the city, which began last November with the youth novelist Silvestre Vilaplana. On that occasion, the author shared a meeting with 4th ESO students from the IES Pere Mª Orts i Bosch and the Nuestra Señora de los Dolores school.