The Cuenca reading club ‘Las Casas Ahorcadas’ has shown its condolences for the death of the Galician writer Domingo Villar, very attached to this club, who died on May 18 at the age of 51.
«Domingo Villar left his mark on the Cuenca reading club. Winner of the Tormo Negro Masfarné Award in 2016 with the novel ‘La playa de los ahogados’, a year later he shared an endearing proclamation and in 2019 he was also among the participants in the Festival of Las Casas Ahorcadas”, they have recalled from this cultural association, which has wanted to extol the human and literary figure of the writer.
On the other hand, the reading club has reported on the virtual meeting with the writer and deputy director of ‘El País’ Berna González Harbour, in which they will talk about her novel ‘The Dream of Reason’.
It will be next June 3, starting at 7:00 p.m. and through the free Zoom application.
This literary journey, which takes readers to Goya’s Madrid, earned the writer the Dashiel Hammett Award for the best novel published in Spanish at Gijón’s Black Week 2020.
The work is the fourth installment by the curator María Ruiz, in which the most idyllic settings of Madrid are intermingled with its sewers and miseries.
Thanks to the collaboration of the Castilla-La Mancha Library service, the novel can be purchased free of charge in digital format through the following link.
In addition, to attend the meeting it is not necessary to be a member of the club, so those interested in participating can do so by replying to the email casaahorcadas@gmail.com the question posed by the organization before June 2.
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