Within the framework of European December 2025, which celebrates its XI edition from 1 to 20 December with the slogan 'Memory and Future of Europe. 40 years of Spain in the EU', the bookshop La Batisfera in Valencia is hosting a literary event with the writer, winner of the 2024 Spanish National Narrative Prize, Raúl Quinto, on Saturday, 13 December at 12.30pm.

The author will talk with a bookseller, Santiago Lemoine, and the librarian Lola Miñarro, about his novel ‘Martinete del rey sombra’. Admission is free and there is limited capacity.

Raúl Quinto has a degree in Art History from the Universidad de Granada and currently, he lives in Almería, where he works as a professor. He was one of the coordinators of the José Ángel Valente Faculty of Poetry and has contributed as a critic to publications such as Quimera.

His narrative works include ‘La canción de NOF4’, for which he received the Alfonso X Prize for Literature; 'Martinete del rey sombra', acclaimed by critics and winner of the 2024 Spanish National Narrative Prize, the 2023 Critics' Prize and the 2023 Cálamo Prize; and, more recently, ‘La ballena azul’, described by Mariana Enríquez as ‘a compendium of the dark mythology of the Internet’.

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