Mariana Enríquez opens the UV Narratives Classroom programme for the academic year

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  • Maria Magdalena Ruiz Brox
  • September 22nd, 2025
 
Mariana Enríquez.
Mariana Enríquez.

Universitat de València Narratives Classroom opens its programme for the academic year on Tuesday 23 September with a literature talk with Argentinian writer Mariana Enríquez, one of the most renowned contemporary Ibero-American authors.

The event will the place at the La Nau Senate (7:00 p.m.) and has been largely anticipated: Free entries with invitations were sold out in a few hours. Considered the "queen of horror" and one of the most influential voices of the new Argentinian narrative Enríquez has had her work translates into several languages and published on international papers such as Granta, Electric Literature, The New Yorker o McSweeney’s. Among her most recognised titles, we can find Las cosas que perdimos en el fuego (Things We Lost in the Fire) in 2016 and Nuestra parte de noche (Our Share of Night) Herralde Award for Novels winner, in 2019.

This talk will revolve around her new novel Cómo desaparecer completamente (How to Disappear Completely) (Anagrama, 2025), the story of Matías, a Buenos Aires teenager marked by familiar violence, poberty and addiction. The act is organised in collaboration with Ramón Llull Bookstore and presented by UV full-time professor and Classroom responsible Cristina García Pascual.

A top level literary programme

This is the first of colloquium of a semester-long cycle that will gather renowned voices of the current scenario: Susana Fortes (31 October), Andrés Neuman (6 November) and Javier Cercas (4 September) at La Nau, thanks to the UV Narratives Classroom, managed by the Vice-Principal Office of Culture and Society.

Intense week of debates and activities at UV cultural spaces

Universitat de València cultural programme will proceed with an intense week of colloquiums and debates at different spaces:

On Wednesday 24 September at 7:00 p.m., at Rector Pesset Conference Room, the dialogue 'La trayectoria vital y creativa de María Beneyto' ('Life and Creative Trajectory of María Beneyto') within the commmorative cycle by UV starting in April, with debates and exhibitions, due to the María Beneyto year. The event will have the participation of María Lacueva i Lorenz (Open University of Catalonia) and Rosa M. Rodríguez Magda (philosopher and writer). This meeting will be presented by UV full-time professor and cycle coordinator Josep Ballester Roca.

On Thursday 25 September at 7:00 p.m., at Faculty of Geography and History Saló de Graus, the colloquium on the importance of silk as a product and territory-transforming element, and cultural practices in relation to the book Más allá de China: tramas de la seda en el paisaje europeo (Beyond China: The Silk Scheme in the European Land), organised by UV Visual Arts Classroom. The event will be presented by UV Vice-Principal of Culture and Society Ester Alba and will have the participation of María Adriana Giusti (Polytechnic of Torino) and José María Morillas-Alcázar (University of Huelva).

 

Closing the intense week of colloquiums on Friday 26 September at 6:00 p.m., at UV Botanical Garden, an act organised by several collectives and entities for the 50th anniversary of the last execution of Francoism on 27 September 1975. With their motto 'Memory and Resilience', the conference will have a round table with the participation of magistrate Joaquim Bosch, reprisal victim Lucila Aragó, journalist María Palau, and accussed at the CourtMartial of Llaminer in 1975 Fernando Sierra.

The act is presented by the Vice-Principal Ester Alba and moderated by writer and journalist Alfons Cervera. This activity within the frame of the UV Lluís Vives European School of Thinking programme, will include poetry and testimony reading in charge of poet Jaume Pérez Montaner, reprisal victim Ángel González (CAMPDEPV) and Rosa García (La Comuna), with a musical closure, performin JazzWoman and Miquel Gil. Invitation entries are sold out.

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