Writer Mircea Cartarescu is in Spain from Wednesday until November 11 on a tour to promote his novel “Theodoros”, informs Agerpres.
He will go to Madrid, Salamanca, Santiago de Compostela and A Coruna.
Cartarescu is also invited to the Ene Literature Festival, an annual literary event that transforms the Spanish capital city into an epicenter of creativity and passion for literature, bringing together over 100 writers and editors, the Romanian Cultural Institute (ICR) announced in a press release sent to AGERPRES on Wednesday.
The events are organized by the Romanian Cultural Institute in Madrid, Impedimenta Publishing House, Ene – La Fabrica Literature Festival, Contemporary Foundation and Europa House, Rafael Alberti Libraries, Letras Corsarias, Follas Novas and Moito Conto, under the auspices of the Romanian Embassy in the Kingdom of Spain.
Considered to be one of the editorial phenomena of this autumn in Europe and one of the best-selling books on the literary market in Spain, “Theodoros” reached its second edition, the first print run of 15,000 copies selling out in just three weeks.
Mircea Cartarescu is one of the most important contemporary Romanian writers, awarded with numerous international prizes for literature: the Leipzig Book Prize for European Cooperation (2015), the Austrian State Prize for European Literature (2015), the Thomas Mann Prize (2018), The Formentor Award (2018), the FIL Award for Romance Languages (2022) and the Dublin Literary Award (2024).