The Swedish diplomat Pierre Schori former State Secretary for Foreign Affairs and former Swedish Minister of Cooperation and Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, is visiting Madrid and is scheduled to attend various cultural events.
In the Europe Pavilion of the Madrid Book Fair, a tribute to the recently deceased translator of Swedish literature into Spanish and prominent promoter of Spanish in Sweden, the poet Francisco J. Uriz, will be held tonight at 21:00. The participants will present the different facets of his figure: the diplomat and social democrat politician Pierre Schori will talk about his role in politics and literature in Sweden; the poet Juan Marqués will talk about his influence on poetry; Diego Moreno Zambrana, editor of Nórdica Libros, will talk about his role in the publishing world, and the journalist Juan Cruz Ruiz will give a personal portrait of Francisco J. Uriz.
Tomorrow, Thursday, at 18.30 hours in the Simón Bolívar Hall of Casa América, the presentation of the book Conversaciones con el enemigo, by Pierre Schori, will take place, free entrance until full capacity is reached.
The author has been an exceptional witness of a time and a changing world. Alongside the Swedish Prime Minister, Olof Palme, who was assassinated at the height of his life and career, he lived through the end of the Vietnam War, the independence struggles in Angola and Mozambique, the struggle against apartheid in South Africa and the frustrated attempts to create a Palestinian state. Schori was an interlocutor of Fidel Castro and Henry Kissinger, of Haya de la Torre and of Nobel Peace Prize winner Oscar Arias. Together with the Swedish ambassador to Chile, Harald Edelstam, Schori and Palme opened Sweden’s doors wide to Latin American refugees and to the Chilean people, who were crying out for help after the fateful 11 September 1973.
