On 10 May, the Fundación Universitaria Española of Madrid (Calle Alcalá, 93) presented the latest book by the writer Helena Cosano, La diva mariposa (The Butterfly Diva), in an event moderated by the ambassador Inocencio Arias.
Helena Cosano, a contributor to Mundodiario, has published La diva mariposa, a book with which she wants to make a comeback in literature. Following the line of her book Almas Brujas (Rubén Darío Prize 2014), she continues her exploration of the butterfly, conceived as an archetype shared by those ethereal beings, in search of absolutes, always free and sometimes tragic, who seem touched by a divine lightness. Here, the author focuses on the lyric singer Ainhoa Arteta to illustrate the flight of a butterfly, her way of facing existence and her multiple metamorphoses.
The style is characterised by its harmony and variety, combining the poetic with reflections of a more philosophical nature, a clear prose that is at times fast-paced and a tone that is at times journalistic, immersing the reader in what seems to be a parallel world: in reality, everyone’s world, but reinterpreted in the key of a butterfly.
As a diplomat, Helena Cosano has held posts both in the central services and abroad, including those of deputy director of the Diplomatic School, second-in-command and consul in Astana (Kazakhstan) and later in Nicosia (Cyprus), and advisor to the Conference on Disarmament at the Spanish Permanent Representation to the UN in Geneva (Switzerland).
