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The writer Gaspar Hernández, a guest at the Correntes d’Escritas festival in Portugal

Literature.  Portugal, 21/02/2017

The Catalan writer Gaspar Hernández (Sant Esteve d’en Bas, 1971) will be taking part in the 18th Correntes d’Escritas literary festival in Povoa da Varzim, in northern Portugal, from 21st to 25th February. Gaspar Hernández is one of almost 90 writers invited to the festival, and he will be in the round table Toda a palavra serà sempre um jogo por inventar (The Whole Word Will Always Be a Game to be Invented), due to be held on 24th February at the Cine-Teatro Garrett.


Gaspar Hernàndez (Sant Esteve d’en Bas, 1971)
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Gaspar Hernández will be part of Table 6 with the theme Toda a palavra serà sempre um jogo por inventar, along with fellow writers Paula de Sousa Lima, Rita Taborda Duarte, Selva Almada and Tatiana Salem Levy.

Gaspar Hernàndez (Sant Esteve d’en Bas, 1971) is a writer and journalist, a winner of the Josep Pla Prize for his novel El silenci (Silence, 2009). He has also published the novel La Terapeuta (The Therapist, Columna), and the journalistic essay L’ofici de viure bé (The Job of Living Well, Columna). He has written regularly for newspapers El País, El Periódico and El Punt Avui.

At Catalunya Ràdio he produces and presents L’ofici de viure bé, a programme about psychology and new spirituality, which won the City of Barcelona Prize for its “innovation and rigour”, in the words of the panel of experts.

The opening session of the festival will be on 22nd February and the president of the Portuguese Republic, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, will be in attendance

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