Skies so unlike their own: A celebration of spanish exile in the UK, 1939 Session 5

Literature and Civil War: Weapons and letters, 25 years later. Coinciding with the 25th anniversary of the publication of Weapons and Letters, already considered a cult book for its free, thorough and complete look on literature in the Spanish Civil War, the writer Andrés Trapiello will hold a conversation with the essayist and professor of Spanish literature at the University of Barcelona, Jordi Gracia. Andrés Trapiello is a novelist, poet and essayist. He has also been the director of the Trieste publishing house, of the La veleta collection, in Granada, of the magazine Number and co-director of the Deliveries of Ventura. Some of his works include: The sympathetic ink, The ghost ship, La Malandanza, as well as the first six volumes of his diaries, grouped under the general title of Hall of steps, Weapons and letters, Literature and civil war, The grandsons of Cid, Traditions, Perhaps a truth. Winner of the National Critics Award in 1993 and the 2003 Nadal Prize. Jordi Gracia is an essayist, professor of Spanish Literature at the University of Barcelona and a regular contributor to El País. He has written several books on the intellectual and literary history of Spain in the twentieth century and the biographies of Cervantes and José Ortega y Gasset. In Anagrama he has published State and culture, The Silent Resistance (Anagram Essay Prize in 2004), The rescued life of Dionisio Ridruejo and A la intemperie, in addition to two more or less panfletarian booklets, The melancholic intellectual and Against the left.