On Wednesday, May 7, the Biblioteca Nacional de España (Paseo de Recoletos, 20-22) will host the Polish reporter Katarzyna Kobylarczyk (pictured), author of the book Costras: España hurga en sus heridas (Editorial Crítica, 2022), winner of the prestigious Ryszard Kapusciński prize. Free admission until capacity is full.
The writer will talk with the famous historian Julián Casanova and the translator Xavier Farré. Together, they will discuss the historical memory of Spain, the wounds left by the Civil War and the Franco dictatorship, and the role of literary journalism in the recovery of collective memory.
The Polish reporter Katarzyna Kobylarczyk (Kraków 1980) tells us about the wounds-some open, others badly healed-left by the Civil War and the Franco dictatorship in Spanish society. Costras is a book of stories, not history, whose sensitivity and empathy brings the reader closer to the pain and loss of thousands of families, but also to hope and memory recovered. Awarded the 2020 Ryszard Kapuscinski Prize, this literary report travels from the Valley of the Fallen to the anonymous republican ditches and pinched fascist graves, from yesterday’s historical events to today’s political debates, from the certainty of bones recovered by forensic anthropologists to the uncertainty of how to find a healing account. After dozens of interviews and trips throughout Spain, the author knows that although «the main protagonists of this book are dead», the wounds remain and must be understood and treated.
Pages: 272
Editorial: Editorial Crítica
Binding: Soft cover
ISBN: 9788491994107
RPP: 18,81 euros