Pedro Almódovar is the most renowned director of Spanish cinema. He has also made his first steps as a writer. All of his movie scripts have been published and in 2006 Anagrama edited his Patty Diphusa story of a porn photonovel star.

However, the director, with a touch of modesty, does not give too much importance to these previous writings and considers that he has not been a real writer until now. Almodóvar has just published El último sueño, a volume of 12 stories that are much autobiographical and equally literary.

In addition to making him known as a writer, El último sueño has allowed Almódovar to celebrate his first Sant Jordi. The party started for the filmmaker last night at the Alma hotel in Barcelona at the meeting organized by La Vanguardia. The director of All About My Mother arrives on time for the appointment. He wears a pink T-shirt and a white jean jacket and looks much more youthful than on television.

After photographing himself for the front page of the newspaper with Dolores Redondo, Camilla Läckberg or Juana Dolores, he explains that he is delighted with this “festival of friendship, love, reading and literature” and very prepared for the signatures that he has along throughout today at Fnac, La Central and Laie.

“It is important to sell the book, but above all to enjoy the streets of Barcelona full of people with their roses and their desire to read”, adds the director and jokes: “I will be delighted to sign, even things that are not my book, if they come students to sign their notes, I’ll do it without problem”, he says before saying goodbye with a charming smile.

Albert Serra has not gotten to see Almodóvar’s smile because he makes an appearance when the party is already in full swing, but he is one of the most sought-after guests. With a degree in Literary Theory and Comparative Literature, Serra publishes A toast to San Martiriano (Hurtado y Ortega Editores).

The work is the result of a proclamation that Serra improvised at the festivities in his town, Banyoles, and deals with “life, the party and the night”, as he explains in a broken way while many of the partygoers stop him . Although later it is he who stops a publisher, because “I have an idea that is going to be a success.”

Dolores Redondo is not a filmmaker, but her novels always end up on film. After Sant Jordi, she will travel to Marseille to participate in the adaptation for French television of her novel I will give you all this. The series will have six chapters and Redondo will spend a couple of days in the port city to support the cast.

And Antonio Mercero, a third part of Carmen Mola, is also a screenwriter and has co-written De perdidos a Río, a film by Joaquín Mazón that is destined to “bust the box office”. The thing is about some friends who fly to Rio de Janeiro for the funeral of a friend, a dead man who wasn’t dead…