The Spanish poet and director of the Cervantes Institute, Luis García Montero, asked on Tuesday in Havana “Strengthen collaboration relations” in the Spanish -speaking world, in the face of the “emergence of neo -imperialist ideas that dare to despise the importance” of the language.
In statements To the agency EFEafter participating in the presentation of the María Zambrano chair at the University of Havana, in collaboration with the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), García Montero said that it is important that the Spanish -speaking world knows “being part of a community ”
“Frameting is impoverishing the possibility of international action and presence (…) The Brotherhood of Spain with all of Latin America has to be a priority,” he said.
The author of Completely Friday (1998) said that “to say that those who speak Span French filmmaker Jacques Audiard, film director Emilia Pérez, which achieved 13 Oscar nominations.
Before, at the beginning of February, the director of the Cervantes Institute lamented the performance of the president of the United States, Donald Trump, who again eliminated the Spanish from the White House website, as he did in his previous term, “Hipillando “Thus to their 60 million speakers in the country and relating the Spanish language to a” poor and migrants “language.
“It was a sad news because I thought that after the support he had had of the Latin population, maybe he changed his attitude because now they make up a very significant part of the US economy, but has not changed,” said García Montero in front of the kings of Spain and the head of the Spanish government in the Annual Meeting of the Patronage of the Cervantes Institute, which took place in the Royal Palace of El Pardo.
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The director of the Cervantes Institute is on the second day of his visit to the island, in the context of the International Book Fair of Havana, which takes place from February 13 to 23 in the Morro-Cabaña colonial strength.
For its part, the creation of the chair at the University of Havana is part of the 120th anniversary of the birth of the Spanish philosopher María Zambrano (1904-1991).
The initiative, coordinated by Sandra Lorenzano, director of the UNAM Cuba headquarters, will be a meeting point for reflection on philosophy, poetry, gender and exiles, fundamental axes in the life and work of Zambrano, who lived in Havana for several periods between 1936 and 1953.
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This Monday, García Montero participated in a tribute to Spanish writers Rafael Alberti (1902-1999) and María Teresa León (1903-1988) at the headquarters of the National Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba (UNEAC).
Luis García Montero (Granada 1958) is a renowned poet, literary critic and professor of Spanish literature at the University of Granada.
With a copious published work, his most recent book is Almudena (2024), in which he collects a series of poems dedicated to his wife, the writer Almudena Grandes, covering from 1994 to 2021, the year of the death of the author of The ages of Lulu, Malena is a tango name, and the series Episodes of an endless war.
García Montero opens the Almudena Grande Library at the Spanish School of Havana
