Activities of the Night of the Books. Madrid. Friday April 21.

National Library. Madrid. Photograph by (c) Mariola Díaz-Cano

This week culminates in the International Book Day the next Sunday April 23. It has already been 21 years that this day has been celebrated. They will be and they are multitude of activities related to the literary world that occur in every corner of each city. The most distinctive quotes are undoubtedly San Jordi in Barcelona and that Night of the Books in Madrid, which this year will be this Friday the 21st.

We stay in the capital and we review some of the highlights that will take place, such as the delivery of the Cervantes Award to the writer Eduardo Mendoza tomorrow Thursday at noon. But there is much more. We also remember that these days bookstores offer a 10% discount when buying books. 

Delivery of the Cervantes Award to Eduardo Mendoza

This year, being Sunday the 23rd, the traditional appointment in the Auditorium of the University of Alcalá de Henares for the delivery of the Cervantes Prize, comes forward to tomorrow Thursday. King Felipe VI will present the award, that happened last october, to the Catalan writer Eduardo Mendoza The ceremony will begin at 12.00 hours.

However, the meeting of the awarded writer that he usually has with the press before receiving the award will be viernes 21 at 10.00 hours in the National Library. In the same place and throughout the day you can visit the exhibitions:

  • Barbieri. Music, fire and diamonds.
  • Bomarzo, where monsters don't die.
  • Five hours with Mario. Fifty years of history.
  • Flemish heritage. The history of the Jonda culture in the BNE.

And it will also be open in an extraordinary way the museum of the National Library of Spain.

It also moves to that day, at 12.30 pm, the traditional act of deposit of legacy from Mendoza in the Box of Letters from the Cervantes Institute.

Uninterrupted reading of Don Quixote

Maybe the most representative act Of all the activities related to the Day of the Book is the traditional uninterrupted reading of Don Quixote. The 2016 Cervantes Prize will also begin following the tradition. It will be at 18.00 hours on Friday 21 at the Circle of Fine Arts of Madrid and it will last for 48 hours.

Circle of Fine Arts. Madrid. Alcala street.
Photograph of (c) Mariola Díaz-Cano.

Night of the Books - Madrid

In Madrid, the house is thrown out the window throughout Friday. Eduardo Mendoza also participate in one of the many activities organized in this XII edition of the Night of the Books. It will be after starting the reading of Don Quixote. Mendoza will maintain a dialogue before the public with Luis Piedrahita in the Royal Post Office from Puerta del Sol. And at 22.30 hours there will be a recital of poems by Gloria Fuertes, on the occasion of the centenary of his birth.

There could be no shortage of activities for the younger readers as those dedicated to the saga of JK Rowling on Harry Potter. A las 19.30 hours in the auditorium of the Royal Post Office the project is projected documentary Patronus Project: the magic of a generation. And later, at 21.30 hours in the neighbor Pontejos Square is a reading harry potter excerpts in addition to a contest for the best child and adult magician costume.

Another appointment that should not be missed will be in the King's Square, one step away from the Cervantes Institute and two from the Círculo de Bellas Artes. At 17.30 hours the Poetic Pride Festival, organized by World Pride Madrid 2017, with poems and songs by Diego Álvarez Miguel, Lucía Extebarria, Silvia Nieva or Elvira Sastre. At 19.00 hours the writer and journalist Rosa Montero he will chat with journalist Daniel Gascón. And at 20.00:XNUMX p.m. Elvira Lindo you will have a meeting with your readers.

Plaza del Rey. Chueca neighborhood. Madrid.
Photograph of (c) Mariola Díaz-Cano.

Ultimately

For Madrilenians and visitors who love literature we have an essential day to happen in the city. And an even more interesting night.


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