The deputy delegate of the Government in A Coruña, María Rivas participated today in the literary meeting between the writers Marta Sanz and Berta Dávila at the Númax bookstore in Santiago. This meeting is part of a new edition of the Elective Affinities program, of the Ministry of Culture and Sport.
This initiative that began in 2020 brings together in independent bookshops authors and authors who write in different languages to talk about their “similarities, divergences and connections”.
The deputy delegate of the Government congratulated the two authors on their trajectory and thanked them for sharing their way of seeing the world through writing with the readers who met today in Santiago to listen to them.
“It is a real privilege for all of us to have the opportunity to listen to people who thanks to their books, their poetry in which they made us live other lives, feel so many diverse emotions and enjoy the immense pleasure of reading,” said María Rivas who said that “today I am especially excited to be in this first meeting of Elective Affinities, which could not count on a greater claim than these two authors to whom I admire so much.”
The deputy delegate congratulated the Númax bookstore for having joined this program and reiterated that “this Government was always very clear that culture must be supported, but it must be supported with facts and above all by making it accessible to everyone”
The meetings take place from today to September 29 in 12 Galician bookshops, six of them in the province of A Coruña. It is the bookshops themselves that propose the participation of authors and authors according to the interested public and the programming of their own activities. María Rivas also thanked the journalist Daniel Salado for his role in today’s meeting, which was the one who presented the two authors.
In total, in the province of A Coruña there are a total of 12 creators who write in Spanish, Galician and Basque. There is also plurality with respect for the genres as there is poetry, narrative and illustration.
The objectives of the program are on the one hand to promote the activity in independent libraries and, on the other hand, to support literary creation in all the official languages of Spain "putting in value the linguistic plurality of our country, favoring the dialogue between the different languages and contributing to the dissemination of literatures from different territories".
The next meeting that will take place in the province of A Coruña, will be on July 5 at the Berbiriana bookstore with Katixa Aguirre and Ismael Ramos. Already in the month of September the bookstores in which the Elective Affinities will be celebrated are Muy Tale, on the 7th with Manuel Astur and Anto Otero; on the 15th, in Clarion there will be Ana María Lamela and Emma Pedreira on the 26th of September at the Cronopios bookstore will host a meeting between Manuel Vilas and Yolanda Castaño and on the 29th of September Affinities Electives will be held at the Fuego bookstore with Marta Villar and Noemí Sabugal.
In addition to the activities in the Galician bookstores, in other autonomous communities Galician authors and authors will also participate with their works in Galician, as is the case of Emma Pedreira in Asturias, or Yolanda Castaño in León.