August 10, 2022, 8:10 AM
August 10, 2022, 8:10 AM
Santa Cruz de la Sierra receives the tales of
“You glow in the dark”, book by Bolivian Liliana Colanzi with which she was the winner of the VII Ribera del Duero Award.
The author will present her award-winning work tonight, starting at 7:00 p.m., at Casa Melchor Pinto (Sucre # 50), where you will have the opportunity to talk with your readers accompanied by the comments of the Argentine critic Mariana Lardone.
Colanzi is in Bolivia as part of the presentation tour of the book, which has been carried out in several countries since the work came to light this year, by the Spanish publisher Páginas de Espuma. In Bolivia, the book is part of the catalog of the Nuevo Milenio publishing house.
His first stop in the country was Cochabamba, where he presented together with Daniel González, who organizes a cycle called Secret Conversations and runs the Secret Reading club.
In La Paz the presentation was at the International Book Fair, there he talked with Kurmi Soto, critic and researcher. He was also with Edmundo Paz Soldán in the reading club, organized by Mayra Arauco, in the Lectura bookstore.
“I was very grateful for the opportunity to return to cities that I had not visited for a long time due to the pandemic and to meet again with friends, readers, editors, writers, booksellers and book clubs. And above all, It made me very happy to see young people and find out about the projects they are carrying out”, Colanzi noted.
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The book has already been published in Spain, Argentina, Bolivia, Mexico and Colombia, and is also distributed in Uruguay and Peru. The author announced that the work will have translations into Portuguese, English, French and Italian.
He also mentioned that this year will participate in the New York City Book Fair, as well as in the FIL Guadalajara and in the FIL Quito.
“You glow in the dark” It is made up of six stories united around the author’s interest in approaching time from different aspects.
“There is a story set in a cave throughout the centuries, because I was interested in understanding time on a human scale. Human beings have very short lives, but the time of the planet is enormous, extensive and fascinating. Then, science fiction allows me to project myself as a writer and imagine what the planet would be like in the future”mentions Colanzi.
The author defends the ability of the story as a genre to create worlds with complex stories in a few pages.
“The story takes me to places without exit. It’s like those miniatures from which many elements emerge, sometimes contradictory, but which create a whole. The brief form is a space in which you can bring dissimilar elements together and make them dialogue”, he assures.
