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Love for reading Yolanda Soler Onís

We invite the library users and all those interested in the Spanish and Latin American literature & culture to join us on this special encounter with Yolanda Soler Onís. The renowned intellectual will share with us her reading experience and will tell us the authors who have influenced her life, the books that have accompanied her throughout her travels, and her literary tastes and preferences. Participants will have the chance to borrow those books that will be on display at the Emilio García Gómez Library of Instituto Cervantes in Amman. 


Yolanda Soler Onis (Comillas, 1964). Writer and journalist, she has a PhD in Hispanic Philology and a postgraduate degree in Direction and Management of SMEs. Between 1986 and 1995 she was a cultural manager and journalist in different media in the Canary Islands. Since then she has worked in the field of spreading the Spanish language and culture, first for the Menéndez Pelayo International University and since 2005 at the Instituto Cervantes as director of the centres in Manchester, Warsaw, Marrakech, Beirut and Amman, a task that was recognized in 2014 with the award of the Official Cross of the Order of Civil Merit. In 2017, the Government of Chile awarded her the “Gabriela Mistral” Order of Teaching and Cultural Merit.

In 1986 she won the José Hierro Poetry Prize and the Ciudad de La Laguna Novel Prize with Sobre el ámbar and Un tiempo de té con miel. Malpaís was a finalist for the José María de Pereda Novel Prize in 1998 and won the Tristana Prize in 2002. She has also published other poetry collections, including Nombres ajenos, Botania, Mudanzas and De los ríos oscuros, as well as the anthologies Memoria del agua and Memoria del agua y otros poemas. She is the author of various works related to the teaching of language and literature, such as José Hierro for children, José Hierro: Geografía Mítica and José Hierro: La biografía de un pájaro se resume en su canto. Una poética confirmada.

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