The journalist and Nadal Prize winner, Ignacio Carrión, will be today Tuesday, 25 November, in the Centre Cultural La Nau of the Universitat de València, in the discussion about Writing come hell or high water (Escritura contra tiempo y marea). This round-table meeting, that will have the interventions of Enric González, writer and journalist, and Antonio Ariño, Vice-Principal for Culture and Equality of the Universitat de València, is organised due to Carrión last book, Molestia aparte II. Diarios (2006-2010), launched by Reino de Cordelia. The lecture will take place in the Aula Magna of La Nau at 19:30 and it will be free entrance until the capacity is completed.
In 2007, the ex-editor of El País already decided to share his personal diaries, notes and documents about reflections of the world that surrounded him with a good measure of humour in La hierba crece despacio (Publisher EDAF) that included the period from 1961 to 2001. Afterwards, the publisher Reino de Cordelia has launched two volumes entitled “Molestia aparte”. The first one is based in the quinquennium 2001-2005, it includes the 11-S, the Irak war, Zapatero electoral change and the 11-M attacks, among others issues. This second volume focus on the period of unrest from 2006 to 2010, characterised by a crisis that has destroy the bases of the welfare state and has raised doubts about the supposed goodness of the transition to democracy.
From the perspective of a reporter already retired, Carrión continues his confession with the same strength and settling the problems with his own environment. The peculiarity of these writings is that they are in midway among the personal diary and a merciless analysis of reality. The Office of Vice-Principal for Culture and Equality of the Universitat de València blog, NAU XXI (http://nauxxi.uv.es) allows to read the first pages of this book.
About Ignacio Carrión: (San Sebastián, 1938) he studied in the universities of Valencia, Madrid and Louvain (Belgium) and he finished his Journalism studies in 1968. After a period working as a bookseller, he was correspondent for some media such as EFE Agency, ABC, Cambio 16 and Diario 16 in San Francisco, London and Washington. Later, he worked as editor in chief and special correspondent for the newspaper “El País”.
His ironic style, precise and cutting, in which the journalist never forgets his literary beginnings, has made him one of the best reporters and journalists of recent times. He has launched several novels El milagro (1990), Desahucio (1996) and Cruzar el Danubio with which he obteined the Nadal Award in 1995. Also volumes of short stories Klaus ha vuelto (1992) and Pobres mujeres (2010) and travel books India vagón 14-24 (1977), Madrid, ombligo de España (1984), De Moscú a Nueva York (1989) and Buscando a Marilyn (2008). As essayist, he has written Alabado sea yo (1998) and the autobiographical volume Diarios (1961-2001). La hierba crece despacio (2007) became a publishing phenomenon because of the controversy that it created and which second volume, entitled Molestia aparte (2001-2005), has been launched this year.
Last update: 24 de november de 2014 14:17.
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