Next Tuesday we will celebrate Sant Jordi’s Day, the great event for book lovers. Forged in Barcelona, ??it has spread throughout the world while remaining a unique festival and a great distinctive of the city. For yet another year, La Vanguardia’s Cultura/s supplement is added with a wide panorama of news and reports that aspire to inform and accompany readers in this annual paradise.
Our selection deals with the latest developments in international narrative, in Catalan and Spanish; books about very special life experiences, crime, history, Catalan history, journalism, new trends, biographies and memoirs, current and cultural essays, classics, art, music and cinema, poetry and comics, by our specialists in all these subjects .
We also inform about the programming of the publishing house Libros de Vanguardia, which this year has its star book for this date in Ments preclares. The Book of Idiots, by Quim Monzó.
The supplement, which in its paper version has 64 pages, also offers several reports on the world of books.
Jorge Carrión addresses the long history of Ibero-American bookstores, and their network of influences on both sides of the Atlantic. The writer and editor Enrique Murillo comments on Salman Ruhsdie’s latest book, Cuchillo, about the attack he suffered, and evokes his decades-long friendship with the Anglo-Indian writer.
Mauricio Bach focuses on the little-known and fascinating history of the pre-hippy colony of Monte Verità, a stronghold of nudist and anarchist intellectuals and creators in the 1920s, now reflected in several books and a film. Antònia Justícia analyzes the editorial rebirth of the dragons and the great boom of the youth literature author Rebecca Yarros…
And like every year we want to encourage our readers to enjoy the day by visiting bookstores and purchasing the books that most seduce them. Since bookstores are the best guarantee of a rich and cultivated present, and of a cultural future.
