Spanish Literature Week events

TIRANA, April 20 – This year’s Spanish Literature Week will bring three days of cultural events in Tirana. The events will kick off on April 27 with the prize award ceremony of the fourth literary competition ‘Don Quijote de la Mancha’ on the best short story and the best poem on the wide topic “Spain and its culture.” Events at the Faculty of Faculty of Foreign Languages in Tirana will continue with some public readings of the Don Quixote by renowned personalities of Albanian culture.
A literary meeting with three writers, Albania’s Bashkim Shehu and Spain’s Jordi Punti and Kirmen Uribe will follow the activities on April 27.
Thursday, April 28 will feature a concert by guitarist Raul Viela paying homage to Spanish poet Gacia Lorca. Meanwhile, April 29 will bring the “Soldados de Salamina” movie at the Marubi film Academy.
Last year, two premieres, one of which a world one, were staged in Tirana this week during the Spanish Literature Week events held in the frame of the World Book Day. The Albanian public enjoyed the premiere of the Yerma play by Spain’s Federico GarcLorca at the theatre of the Academy of Arts and most importantly the world premiere of the “Life is a dream” play by Spanish playwright Pedro Calder