Barcelona Negra 2017. Closing of the festival. We review.

Barcelona Negra 2017. Some authors.

Today, 4 February, the 12th edition of the Barcelona Black Novel Festival closes. It started on January 26 and has been full of activities, tributes and news. And of course there have been visits from recognized names of a genre that is increasingly relevant, alive and with more weight in literature.

Perhaps the most important news has been the termination of Paco Camarasa in his position as curator of the festival. The famous bookseller of the mythical Black and criminal, critic and promoter of the darkest fiction in Spain retires from the front line of fire. But there has been much much more. We summarize it.

Tributes

The festival, and as usual, started on January 26 with the delivery of the VIII prize Ink Crims, a reference to the black crime scene in Catalan. And the next day the Jaume Fuster Library opened the exhibition «Pepe Carvalho», with works created from the novels of Manuel Vázquez Montalbán.

Precisely the The most important tribute has been to Vázquez Montalbán, which was done on February 1. The 40 anniversary of the edition of The loneliness of the manager, with his famous detective Pepe Carvalho.

And other relevant news related to Carvalho has been the announcement of his return thanks to the writer Carlos Zanón. He had recently made public his intention to continue series in 2018. The curator camera Manifested positively about it, but there have been opinions for all tastes. They are as many in favor of seeing their hero once again kicking the streets of Barcelona as they are against touching a hair again if it is not the hand of its author.

And there was a second tribute, the one given to the Gijón Black Week, another festival that turns thirty years old. Its creator came, Paco Ignacio Taibo II.

Pepe Carvalho Award

Considered the central act of the festival, it was delivered last day 2 to Dennis Lehane. The American writer of Irish origin is possibly the most important voice gender in your country right now. Author of a very realistic crime novel, hard and defined as masculine, not macho, is specialist in the darkest portrait of his city, Boston. But his career is more than brilliant with such famous titles as Mystic River, o Shutter Island.

Just published That world disappeared, which closes the trilogy what started with Any other day and continued with Live at night. The movie version of that last title, directed by and starring Ben Affleck. As a personal note I bet a lot of fans of Joe coughling, the main character, they would have wanted Affleck to just stay BEHIND the camera.

More authors

For example, John Connolly. The Dubliner and father of the detective Charlie Parker was chatting with the journalist Juan Carlos Galindo, from El País, in the Jaume Fuster library. And icelandic Arnaldur Indridason made an X-ray of the western world as seen from "the island of ice." Indridason finishes publishing Betty, which now arrives here even though it is from 2003.

The French has also been Olivier Norek. This former police lieutenant has in the market Domino effect, best european novel in the past festival Quais du Polar. And the Italian has also come Saint Piazzese, whose novel Murder in the botanical garden it has been published for the first time in Spain after 20 years. The Sicilian writer has declared that then "Vázquez Montalbán was already a reference" for him.

Among the national names have stood out Lorenzo Silva or Dolores Redondo, the aforementioned Carlos Zanón,Toni Hill or Rose Ribas, who have participated in the different activities prepared.

Ultimately

And in the absence of an official balance after the closing of the festival, I have no doubt that, for yet another year, it has been a success. May it be many more, successes and years. Both Barcelona and lovers of the black genre will continue to thank you.


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