Madrid writer Almudena Grandes, who passed away in November 2021, with an action full of emotion and memory, this Saturday, posthumously. Adopted Daughter of Villa de Rota (Cádiz), a municipality where he sees himself as “the light of all his summers” and is treated like a neighbor.
chapter house Luna Castle Town Hall The town’s residents welcomed this act, where his widow, poet Luis García Montero, showed off his wealth as Grandes fell in love with him and Rota.
“I was lucky that Almudena fell in love with me and wanted to spend our summers by the sea.” García Montero said he told his wife about this corner of Cádiz in a speech that when he arrived he was “convinced that there is no better place to spend his summers”.
She was particularly grateful for this appointment of the Adoptive Daughter because the author’s death left her. “a deep wound” and for him it was “the first misfortune in his life”.
Grandes, loved by all and seen as part of this family by the people of Rota, He spent long summers in this municipality on the coast of CadizAs the poet stated, it is a place where he saw his children grow up and wrote all his works from the “Atlas of Human Geography”.
Like local and provincial officials, neighbors and friends of the author Felipe Benitez Reyes or Joaquín Sabina didn’t want to miss this date that the city owed its adoptive neighbor and became a “girl” this Saturday.
The mayor of Rota, Javier Ruiz Arana and Nadia Calviño, First Vice-President and Minister of Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation, presented the title of Daughter to Adoptive to her three children, Irene, Mauro and Elisa, who were visibly touched and received long applause from the attendees.
Ruiz Arana reiterated Grandes’ commitment to Rota, a city that “learns to love” and where he created a “net of friends” that connects him even more to this land.
“Almudena Grandes owns Rota zone of happiness“, the mayor said in his speech that Almudena is “eternal” and will continue to be remembered in his second home.
“One kiss Almudena, wherever you are”, Finished.
Nadia Calviño, First Vice President and Minister of Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation, said that Grandes “a literary reference” it is also “a reference for its commitment to the progressive, feminist agenda and to those who are most vulnerable”.
“As a woman, she gave a voice to women and showed the reality of our country,” said Calviño, noting Almudena. “He never faltered and he was just another roteña”.
She saw Rota as her “happiness zone” and that’s why her appointment as Adoptive Girl was “best of awards” because “a corresponding act of love”appreciated the minister.
As of today, author officially from Madrid, by adoption from Rota “one more neighbor” and Rota’s favorite daughter, whom he will always carry in his memory.