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Next Saturday, September 28, the book Yo, Don Juan Manuel, the work of the merchant and novelist Paco López Mengual and edited by Tirano Banderas will be presented.
It will be in MUBAM (Museum of Fine Arts of Murcia).
The event, which is scheduled within the II International Week of Letters, will begin at 12 in the morning.
Accompanying the author is the Professor of Language and Literature, Aurora Gil Bohorquez, and the illustrator of the book, Diana Escribano Henarejos.
In this historical-literary story, Don Juan Manuel, author of the famous book of stories Count Lucanor, is now a man of 737 years, dressed in medieval clothes, who walks through the streets of the old quarter of a city of Murcia, the place that centuries ago it would occupy one of its many castles.
Don Juan Manuel, who was a feared warrior and acclaimed writer, does not hesitate to tell the visitors that he finds his fast-paced life and some of the best-known tales of his famous book that could be written in this city, during which Several years he maintained his residence.
In Yo, Don Juan Manuel, Paco López Mengual, who had already made inroads in children's and youth literature with Do I tell you a story?
and El graffiti del Cid, now recovers the figure of the mythical Infante, his presence in Murcia, while highlighting some of the small literary jewels that were published in Count Lucanor seven centuries ago and that, hundreds of years later , were collected by authors such as Christian Andersen, Samaniego or Shakespeare.
The person in charge of the cover and illustration of the book was Diana Escribano Henarejos (Madrid, 1980).
Bachelor of Fine Arts, illustrator and graphic designer.
Paco López Mengual (Molina de Segura, 1962) has published six novels, The Memory of Mud, The Map of a Crime, The Last Ship to America, Cursed Chinese, Graffiti of the Cid and Execute Otto Maier;
three books of stories, the mansion of the mutants, the gun of Hilarito and a literary walk through the streets of Murcia;
two travel books, Memories of Lisbon and A few days in Paris;
and the children's story book, will I tell you a story?
Now I see the light I, Don Juan Manuel, a new foray into the youth narrative.
The novel The map of a crime is translated into Portuguese.
He is a member of the Very Noble and Very Loyal Order of the Meteorite.
Source: Agencias
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