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Conference "From the Spanish Civil War in Vietnam"

In the marc of the Book Fair organized by HPLC, we present a lecture by writer David Castillo. Entitled "From the Spanish Civil War in Vietnam", the author will illustrate this topic (Spanish with English interpretation) from his latest book:

The tango of Dien Bien Phu

The Tango-dien-of-well-phu-

A The tango of Dien Bien Phu, novel winner of the Joanot Martorell Prize 2019, Barcelona writer tells the story, complex and poorly understood, a libertarian group of soldiers who fought in two very different wars: Spanish Civil War and the War of Indochina. everything, a story coral result of years of research. Of course, we also talk about all the research behind.

The lecture by David Castillo, Spanish (with interpretation into English), will be introduced and moderated by Jelena Bulić. It will take place in room 2 the LuxExpo, Sunday 1 in March 15.30. Free entrance.

Activity in collaboration with AREL.

David Castillo is an old acquaintance of the Catalan Center, We invite expensive 2015 al Spring poets. Since the late seventies, has combined literary journalism. Before we present the work, has published three anthologies, two biographies of Bob Dylan, the novel la in vers The book of the evils Catalan (2010) and four novels: Heaven Hell (Crexells prize for the best Catalan novel of the 1999), Do not look back (Prize Sant Jordi 2001), The sea of ​​tranquility (2010) and Barcelona does not exist (2014). He currently chairs the Collegiate Association of Writers of Catalonia.

David Castillo
[Picture of Fernando Sendra]