The course, entitled 'The story, a literary look at reality' will be held on 21 and 28 May, 4 and 11 June, at 6 pm. The archive will be available on the YouTube channel of the La Nau Cultural Centre and the archive can also be retrieved from the pages of the Vice-Principal of Culture of the Universitat.

Over the course of four sessions, the fascinating relationships between fiction and reality, the threads that connect them, the short circuits that sometimes occur, and the result of these frictions, i.e. the literary story, will be explored. The workshop will be given by Kike Parra and Bàrbara Blasco.

Kike Parra is a writer and a teacher of writing workshops. He is the author of the short story books 'Ninguna mujer ha pisado la luna' and 'Me pillas en mal momento' (both published by Relee); or the novel 'Mark Zuckerberg: una biografía no autorizada' (Che Books, 2018) with the collective Hotel Posmoderno. He teaches literary creation at the Fuentetaja School of Writers and in various public libraries in the Valencian Community. He collaborates with the magazine ‘Lletraferit'.

Bárbara Blasco has a degree in journalism, is a writer and teaches creative writing. She has published the novels 'Suerte' ('Luck'), finalist of the Lengua de Trapo Prize, and 'La memoria del alambre' ('The Memory of Wire'), both with Ediciones Contrabando. She was recently finalist of Azorín Novel Prize. He has been teaching writing for seven years in Fuentetaja and three years with a feminist writing workshop at the Exhibition Library. She has given two courses in the Narrative Workshop in Spanish in the Writing Classroom of the Universitat de València. She writes regularly in 'Valencia Plaza’.

Literature in pandemic times

Since the beginning of the state of alarm, the Literature Room of the Universitat de València has been incorporating reading recommendations that form part of the project 'Literature in times of pandemics', where writers, poets, teachers and journalists of the Universitat recommend the reading of novels, essays or books of poetry. Everything can be consulted on the YouTube channel of the Centre Cultural La Nau.

In the videos, the books are presented, fragments are read, some are unpublished texts, and even anecdotes are told and the houses of writers like Saramago are discovered, through the photographs shown by the participants. More than a dozen literary recommendations can already be consulted, which have had hundreds of visualizations.

Among the participants we can find the director of the Aula herself, Cristina García Pascual; Senator Javier de Lucas; university professors, such as Ana Aguado or Fernando Flores; writer Anna Lis; poet Marc Granell and journalists from the University of Valencia Manolo Peris and Magda Ruiz Brox.