In ‘El oficio de escribir: aventura y conjetura’, Felipe Benítez Reyes will take a critical and anecdotic look at his long writing experience, by explaining his resources when tackling a work, as well as revealing the stylistic keys that govern his creative processes.

The conference will be broadcast on Blackboard collaborate and registration is available at this link. This and other presentations will be available after the event on the YouTube Channel of the UV Cultural Centre La Nau.

A multidisciplinary author

Writer and poet, Felipe Benítez Reyes (Rota, Cádiz, 1960) is the author of a versatile oeuvre that covers poetry, novels, short tales, essays and opinion articles. His novels, translated into several languages, include ‘El novio del mundo’, ‘El pensamiento de los monstruos’, ‘El azar y viceversa’, and ‘Mercado de espejismos’, which won the Premio Nadal.  

His poetry, written between 1978 and 2008, has been compiled in the volume ‘Libro de poemas’, followed by ‘Las entidades’ and ‘Ya la sombra’.

His first three collections of short tales are gathered in ‘Oficios estelares’. He has subsequently published, in this genre, an “almanac of stories” entitled ‘Cada cual y lo extraño’ and the “laboratory of narrative procedures” called ‘Por regiones fingidas’.

He has won the Critics' Prize, the Ateneo de Sevilla Prize for novels, the Loewe Foundation Prize for poetry and the National Literature Prize, among others. He has translated T.S. Eliot, Francis Scott Fitzgerald and Vladimir Nabokov.