With simple but agile prose, the author uses his writings to give us a closer look at a world he knows and loves: mysterious, unknown Morocco. His stories have issued forth from the mountains, the High Atlas of the Berbers, a land of strong, hospitable people who face destiny with an impassibility that also allows them to deal with rough, desolate winters. In the stories gathered within Carta desde el Toubkal (A Letter from Toubkal), real-life episodes are intertwined with imagined tales, though it is nearly impossible to find the invisible, capricious line separating the two. Some of these tales speak about the people who travel to this place, the foreigners who delve into a world and come back changed. A Letter from Toubkal was a finalist for the Eighth Desnivel Prize awarded to works of climbing, travel and adventure literature. This volume includes three now stories, one of which is practically a novella, in which the author does not conceal the harsh nature of a world in which people sometimes place a different value on life.

Pedro Delgado Fernández (Malaga, 1966).
A writer with a calling for travel, he has journeyed throughout half the world with a book under his arm, which is why the places where he sets his stories are always many miles from home. For a long time, he combined his work as a Physical Education teacher with that of a mountain and travel guide in Morocco, a country which holds a very important place in his narratives. In the cross-country running world, he got as far as going “international,” but after the success of Al sur del Sáhara (To the South of the Sahara), a travelogue recommended by the prestigious publisher Lonely Planet, he hung up his running shoes to spend more time writing. In 2005, he became a finalist for the Seventh Desnivel Prize awarded to works of climbing, travel and adventure literature with Carta desde el Toubkal (A Letter from Toubkal); in 2007, he became a finalist with Saudade, a story that takes place in Brazil, and in 2008 he won Second Prize for La Boulat, an homage to photo journalist Alexandra Boulat (both books in the “Dime que me quieres” Competition held by the Municipal Government of Malaga. He has also published Neguinha la garimpeira. Amazonas: la última frontera (Neguinha la Garimpeira. The Amazon: Final frontier, Editorial Barrabes, 2007) and Los ojos del cordero (The Lamb’s Eyes, Editorial Alfama, 2008), a short novel that takes place in Morocco. For the last three years, he has had a blog on athletics which he has given the name of Calle 1, as well as writing the literary review section of the well-known track and field website El loco que corre.

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