FROM THURSDAY 9 ON SUNDAY 19/5
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The author of Mystic river, Shutter island and scripts for the series The wire, Dennis Lehane, will host a meeting online with the spectators before being awarded the Francisco González Ledesma Prize. With one of the most internationally known black genre authors, the 12 VLC Negra festival edition, that surprises us this year with a new eclectic space in which they will have a place, For example, a rock concert by the writers Mikel Santiago, Pedro Feijóo and Santiago Sánchez, a magic show, a murder party in which the attendees will have to solve a murder committed in front of them and a show comedy noir. This is the news, but as always, The pottage of VLC Negra is in the international authors that it manages to attract: we will have the great Argentine author Claudia Piñeiro sharing microphone with Rosa Montero, to the scotch Alan Parks talking about his detective novels set in Glasgow, to icelandic Ragnar Jonasson and to swedish Anders de la Motte analyzing the thriller current norse, a Lucie Rico confronting his French polar with the noir mediterranean Elia Barcelo already Matthew Blake, author of Anna O, one of the sensations of the season thriller internationally, in a talk with the film director Daniel Monzon (Cell 211) about the fictions we consume through our eyes. Precisely this novel, Anna O, will star in one of the 16 reading clubs that will be distributed by schools, museums and bookstores, another of the fundamental legs of this festival, which also programs black cinema at La Filmoteca focused on the figure of the fatal Woman and it ends, as usual, with a Pata Negra signature. The authors will take to the streets to chat with readers and sign books. For every book you buy that day they will give you a tapa of freshly cut ham and a glass of wine. Nobody, not even the least readers, can resist the charms of a festival designed to enthrall you in the pleasure of reading. S.M.
