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“Memorial of Sand”
November 11, 20197:00 p.m.
MADRID
Casa Árabe Ambassadors’ Hall (at Calle Alcalá, 62, First Floor).
7:00 p.m.
Free entry until the event’s capacity is reached.
In Spanish.
María Sangüesa, the author of this poetry book, will be coming to our
Madrid headquarters on Monday, November 11. The event was organized by
Casa Árabe and the Lastura publishing firm.
Taking part in the event along with Sangüesa are Mohamed el Morabet, a writer, and Paco Léon, president of the Association of Former Residents of Villa Sanjurjo-Alhucemas.
The twenty poems which make up this small volume are written in a confessional tone with a conversational style, in a bilingual edition. The author, born in Alhucemas, nostalgically looks back at the earliest time of her life, with the landscape playing a primordial role. It is an ode to simplicity and proximity which bonds together both shores of the Mediterranean. In some of her poems, Sangüesa introduces the perspective of migrants to denounce their exclusion in the countries to which they travel. In others, she lends her voice to different people and somehow delves into a historical tales to give us a peek at the lives of nomads, Berbers and desert dwellers.
María Sangüesa has a university degree in Spanish History from the UNED. She directed the weekly talk titled “Marginal Thought” at Madrid’s Ateneo for eight academic years. She was the Vice-President of the Association “Escritores en Red” and is a member of the Spanish Ateneo in Mexico. She has had fictional works published, including Del Más Allá, cuentos de fantasmas (From Beyond: Ghost stories, 2007) and Raíces en las brumas (Roots in the Fog, 2015), as well as the poetry books La Piel del Viento (The Wind’s Skin, 2009), Juegos de Sirena (Siren’s Play, 2012) and Tiempo sobre las aguas (Time over the Waters, 2016), in addition to others. She has also authored the songs and poems on the album Rockesía by Javier Calle.
The twenty poems which make up this small volume are written in a confessional tone with a conversational style, in a bilingual edition. The author, born in Alhucemas, nostalgically looks back at the earliest time of her life, with the landscape playing a primordial role. It is an ode to simplicity and proximity which bonds together both shores of the Mediterranean. In some of her poems, Sangüesa introduces the perspective of migrants to denounce their exclusion in the countries to which they travel. In others, she lends her voice to different people and somehow delves into a historical tales to give us a peek at the lives of nomads, Berbers and desert dwellers.
María Sangüesa has a university degree in Spanish History from the UNED. She directed the weekly talk titled “Marginal Thought” at Madrid’s Ateneo for eight academic years. She was the Vice-President of the Association “Escritores en Red” and is a member of the Spanish Ateneo in Mexico. She has had fictional works published, including Del Más Allá, cuentos de fantasmas (From Beyond: Ghost stories, 2007) and Raíces en las brumas (Roots in the Fog, 2015), as well as the poetry books La Piel del Viento (The Wind’s Skin, 2009), Juegos de Sirena (Siren’s Play, 2012) and Tiempo sobre las aguas (Time over the Waters, 2016), in addition to others. She has also authored the songs and poems on the album Rockesía by Javier Calle.
