The sky looked like something straight out of the Bronte brothers’ novels, with menacing clouds ready to destroy everything. But despite the punctual torrential rain at sunset in Madrid, this newspaper’s supplement ‘April’ party, These dates can be enjoyed to a great extent, as expected: outdoors, indoors with the temporary shelter, and in the same place as last year, on the terrace of the garden. Melia Fenix hotel From the Plaza de Colon.
Parties are an indispensable part of life. Madrid Book FairThe meeting point where writers, editors, booksellers and journalists gather at the end of the day in Retiro and, after fulfilling their devotion to the readers, immerse themselves in the noble arts of casual conversation and drinking with more or less restraint. ‘April’ celebrated its own day this Friday, the only one today to put together a means of communication.
The Prensa Ibérica supplement celebrates its first year and a little over a month, combined as a reference title in the literary world. It has been published on paper, in a mixed version with El Periódico de España and El Periódico de Catalunya as a whole, and with ‘The Bellver in April’ of Diario de Mallorca, another cultural supplement of the group, as well as on their website. in the digital version of almost all the media in the group.
His birth was celebrated with a party in Sant Jordi when he was just a few days old.and a few weeks later it was repeated in the capital on the occasion of the fair. Two literary events of this magnitude deserve an equivalent celebration in just one year, and on this occasion with sponsorship. Planetary GroupIt has become an indispensable event where it is common to see politicians, business representatives and communicators, as well as the universe surrounding the book, on both sides. On this occasion, the Minister of Culture, Tourism and Sports of the Community of Madrid, Martha Rivera de la Cruz. But politics was the least talked about topic.
As those in the industry know, there is something heroic about publishing a weekly at least 16 page weekly dedicated print supplement, the only book of this model in existence in Spain, and they were there. Juan Cruz And Alex Salmonwith the child’s parents Ines Martin Rodrigoa full Nadal Award winner, its most distinguished editor, and Gemma Robles And Albert Saenzrespective directors of EL PERIÓDICO DE ESPAÑA and El Periódico de Catalunya, with which it was co-published. javier mollThe president and founder of Prensa Ibérica underlined the group’s satisfaction with the experience. “The balance of what happened with April‘ We look to the future very positively and with great optimism. Writers follow and research, and we know what they like.” These writers confirmed it at the party, commenting on some episodes in detail. There were even those who offered to make a book by collecting the articles in the “I came to talk about my book” section.
The writers are the protagonists of all this and they were not missing from the party. Many veteran writers, younger ones, and a few beginners wandered around the terrace of the Hotel Fénix. had Julia Navarro, Angeles Gonzalez Sinde, Sergio RamirezJavier Cercas anyone Julio LlamazaresContributor to this newspaper. But also rookies margarcia puigHappy for the fourth edition of his book ‘History of Vertebrate’, Alvaro Llamas anyone Charo Lagares. And they moved too Lawrence Silva, Juan Gómez Bárcena, Marcos Giralt Torrente, Alba Carballal or Marta Jiménez Serrano, Author of one of the most reviewed books right now‘Not everyone’. At that moment, a sigh of relief was heard. Joaquin Reyes made an appearance. He was invited to the ‘April’ party in Barcelona on the occasion of Sant Jordi, but the writer and humorist appeared exactly here, on the terrace of Fénix in Madrid. This time he came and the party and drinks were waiting for him.
With the heavy rains that have shaken Madrid in recent days, people talked about the weather of the fair. The general opinion summed up his director, Eva OrueIn other words, despite everything, it aims to finish this year with better numbers than the previous one. Eva SerranoThe editor of the Círculo de Tiza explained this on the basis of what has been learned of the disturbances in recent years. “People came to the Book Fair with masks, with the capacity to force the three-hour queues… So now they come with umbrellas, that’s all.”
Ready for anything and more than storms and scorching experiences in a cabin, rosa monteroOne of the most sought after writers of all time, he said that he had just set foot in the fair as he had just come from a trip to Brazil, but there was a long-distance race ahead of him. “Starting tomorrow, I’m signing almost every day. But the thing is, if I don’t, I don’t have time to sign with my bookstore friends. I do it every year.” Montero’s joy, always exuberant, matched the joy the Bulgarian exuded. Georgi Gospodinov brand new winner of the last international bookstore award, hallucinated by what he saw in the Retiro: crowds of people turning the pages of books, dozens of authors chatting with their readers, and the stream of people coming to get their books signed. After auction ‘dry martini in hand. All pools state that this will be repeated at the Fair and possibly the ‘April’ party.