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The professor at the University of Murcia and co-director of the Chair Arturo Pérez-Reverte, José Belmonte Serrano commented at the press conference organized to present the activities, that the writer was willing to come to today's presentation "if his presence was Necessary ".
Perez-Reverte, who is working on the second installment of his new series "Falcó", is very satisfied with the march of this chair "with which he was very excited from the beginning," said Belmonte.
The headquarters of the Cajamurcia Foundation in Las Claras has been the setting for the presentation of the activities of the "Arturo Pérez-Reverte" Chair, created a year ago thanks to an agreement between the University of Murcia and the Cajamurcia Foundation.
The aim of the Chair is research, training and dissemination in the field of Spanish and Spanish American literature and the work of Arturo Pérez-Reverte.
It involves both professors and university students and professionals in the sector.
It also aims to create an international network among universities from different countries for the exchange of knowledge related to this field of knowledge, enhancing scientific research around reading and literary creation.
Chair in the best hands
Pascual Martínez, Manager of the Cajamurcia Foundation, was satisfied with the march so far of this chair, which "began to bear fruit newly created", he said that the chair is in the best hands, both by its two co- Professors José María Pozuelo and José Belmonte) and by the government team of the University of Murcia, "who always supported this initiative", and emphasized that its objective is "to create a space and make it available to society for research , The formation and the diffusion of Spanish-American literature and the specific work of Pérez-Reverte. "
Professor José María Pozuelo Yvancos, the other co-director of the initiative, referred that "the chair was born with a double will: research and social projection, two fields that must be very present in the University."
Pozuelo said that "although Perez-Reverte is a writer with a lot of projection, we want the actions to be extended to activities that include the narrative of other writers of his generation."
He commented that among the initiatives that will be carried out this year, the Arturo Pérez-Reverte Research Prize will be called, aimed at promoting the study of the journalistic and narrative work of the Cartagena writer.
The prize is endowed with three thousand euros destined to the edition of a book, and will be granted to a research work unpublished around the narrative and journalistic work of the author of "The club Dumas", between 200 and 300 pages, that Meet the conditions of scientific quality and originality.
The deadline for submission is set until December 15, 2017.
Pozuelo added that the jury will be composed of a group of specialists of international prestige and have already addressed 300 departments of Language and Literature of the five continents.
And he emphasized as an example of his popularity the fact that he is currently the most widely read foreign writer in Russia.
Comic book workshop
The first of the activities will be a comic book workshop about Captain Alatriste by Joan Mundet, cartoonist of this series and chosen by the writer himself to draw his saga.
It will be the days 21 and 22 of March in the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Murcia.
Registration will be free and is aimed at students of Fine Arts, History of Art and Education, but also to all interested public.
Alexis Grohmann, Professor of Literature at the University of Edinburgh, will give a lecture on "The narrative work of Arturo Pérez-Reverte" at 9 AM at the UMU Faculty of Arts.
Days on Pérez-Reverte in Italy
The activities of 2017 will culminate on November 13 and 14 at the University of Genoa (Italy), "a university with a lot of tradition with Hispanism", said Belmonte, a conference on "Arturo Pérez-Reverte and the novel of the XXI century in Spain, "which will include some of the best Hispanists in the world and the writer himself, who presumably will have finished shortly before the process of writing and correcting the second part of his series" Falcó ".
Participants will include Gonzalo Navajas (University of Los Angeles, Irvine), Marie-Thérese García (University of Toulon), Grohmann, Marco Succio (University of Genoa) and the two co-directors of the chair and professors of the University Of Murcia: José María Pozuelo and José Belmonte.
Francisca Tomás Alonso, Vice-Rector of Transfer, Entrepreneurship and Employment of the UMU, closed the ceremony, highlighting the great importance that UMU has for this chair: "it is one of our most strategic and emblematic projects", he added, adding that "We are very satisfied with the chairs we have at the University of Murcia", he said, "although this is one of the most projected, since the transfer of knowledge that is carried out in the UMU in a transversal way, is reflected in this Chair magnificently. "
The vice-rector ended his speech with a desire: "that the activities carried out in 2018 are as powerful as those we will have in 2017," and assuring that "the University of Murcia will continue to support them"
Source: Universidad de Murcia
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