Ólafur Páll Jónsson presents «Crónica de una vida en un mundo convulso»
On Monday, April 29, at 7:00 p.m., the book Crónica de una vida en un mundo convulso (Márgenes Editores, 2024), by the writer Ólafur Páll Jónsson, will be presented at the Librería Inusual, 7, Natalio Rivas Street.
Páll Jónsson will be accompanied by authors José Miguel Gómez Acosta (El gran norte, UGR García Lorca Poetry Prize 2015) and José Federico Barcelona (El oso blanco y la hormiguita, Iglú Editores, 2021), both with bilingual Spanish-Icelandic editions.
The round trip from Granada to Reykjavik and back, by the hand of Granada Unesco City of Literature, which has already sponsored other previous connections (the presentation of El gran Norte in Reykjavik, the sending of a poem by Ángeles Mora at the Reykjavik City Council, or the presentation of El oso blanco y la hormiguita at the Granada Book Fair, among others), will show us numerous connections between the three authors, their collaboration and their friendship, but, above all, it will reveal how to look at the north from our south and how Granada can be perceived from Nordic eyes, among others), will show us numerous connections between the three authors, their collaboration and friendship, but, above all, it will reveal how to look at the north from our south and how Granada can be perceived from the Nordic eyes. A journey where texts, poems, illustrations and experiences will go hand in hand to configure a common meeting space.
Free admission until full capacity.
Ólafur Páll Jónsson
Ólafur Páll Jónsson studied philosophy and works as a professor at the Faculty of Education of the University of Iceland. Búsqueda del tesoro en Granada was his first book, for children and young people, translated into Spanish, although he had previously published four philosophy books in Iceland. Crónica de una vida en un mundo convulso, his new book, translated into Spanish by Fabio Teixidó Benedí, contains poems adapted by José Miguel Gómez Acosta. A journey through twelve months in an environment different from the cold north. Granada as an excuse to discover oneself, between closeness, remoteness, joy, longing and reflection.
“Life consists at the same time of a succession of events in which each moment is new and a set of repeated occurrences so that we expect today the same as yesterday and the same this year as last year. Sometimes life moves forward like a river flowing calmly between green banks on its way to the sea, while at other times it sweeps through such turbulent waters that we can consider ourselves lucky to have come out unscathed. But sometimes we are not so lucky. This chronicle narrates the life of a person, a singular and unique life, but at the same time so everyday that it will be difficult for anyone not to recognize themselves in it”.
