Five writers from Guayaquil who are leading figures in contemporary Latin American literature will be on their first promotional tour of Spain until Saturday 15 April, where they will take part in talks, reading workshops and colloquiums on the literary scene in Ecuador and the region in leading bookshops in Madrid and Barcelona.
Tomorrow Wednesday at 5 p.m. at the Centro Cultural Ecuatoriano (Calle General Oráa 64) there will be a discussion on City, Migration and Memory, with the participation of writers from Guayaquil Ernesto Carrión (in the photo), Jorge Martillo and Eduardo Varas, together with the Ecuadorian critic Carlos Burgos, who will talk about the city of Guayaquil, the social imprint left by migration in the year 2000 in Ecuador, and how the Ecuadorian artist Julio Jaramillo became a reference point for the collective memory of a nation.
The tour has been promoted by the Ecuadorian publishing house Cadáver Exquisito with the support of the Instituto de Fomento a la Creatividad y la Innovación del Ecuador (IFCI), with the aim of promoting and distributing the works of independent national authors, whose works make contemporary Ecuadorian literature better known to the Spanish public.
The five writers on this tour: María Paulina Briones (poet and director of the publishing house behind the tour); Jorge Martillo (poet and chronicler), Andrea Crespo (poet and narrator), Eduardo Varas (journalist and narrator) and Ernesto Carrión (poet and narrator) have an outstanding literary career in Ecuador and the Latin American region, where they have received awards for their works.
Venues such as the Campus of the University of San Diego in Madrid; the bookshops La Mistral, Rafael Alberti, La Fabulosa, the Centro Ecuatoriano Cultural and Finestres in Barcelona will host the talks as part of this tour.
