Starting next Monday, April 16th, the book 'Cieza of yesterday. Stories, legends and other chronicles' by Antonio Balsalobre. A beautiful book with varied, diverse, exciting, and fun content, full of intention and tenderness, a sense of humor and love, with an indisputable protagonist born from the heart: Cieza, the people of Cieza and… everything about Cieza.
Antonio Balsalobre, with his sometimes nostalgic, sometimes ironic and playful tone without causing harm, with a very careful, refined, precise and highly elaborate language, carries us along the gentle yet vigorous river of his prose, suspended floating on its waters, captivated by a verb that almost hypnotizes, and attracted by the morbid, confessable, fact that he has recreated in his book a relatively recent past that we have all heard about at some point.
To enjoy it, one simply has to resign oneself to not resisting the spell of these pages, willingly letting oneself be carried away by the inspired pen of an author in the midst of a creative and recreative whirlwind.
The text is accompanied by magnificent illustrations by Antonio Moreno.
The book launch will take place next Monday, April 16, at 8:00 p.m. hours in the Cloister of the Padre Salmerón Municipal Library in CiezaIt will involve, Fernando Fernández (editor), Pascual Lucas (Mayor of Cieza), Bartholomew Marks (teacher) and Antonio Balsalobre (author).
ANTONIO BALSALOBRE, Cieza, 1958
Founding member of the Local Studies Collective TrasCieza, belonging to the Atalaya-Ateneo Club of the Villa de Cieza, has been actively participating since the early 1980s in the publications edited by this association.
A graduate in Hispanic Philology, he teaches Spanish Language and Literature at the secondary level and French at the Official Language School. His most recent teaching positions have been at the IES Diego Tortosa in Cieza and the EOI in Molina de Segura.
In 1997, he won the First Prize for Short Narrative at the III Francisco Sánchez Bautista Regional Literary Competition, with the story At night, at the weir.
For the past six years, he has been a columnist for the newspaper The Opinion of Murciawhere he publishes a weekly article. He also writes about current affairs for online newspapers. Chronicles of Siyasa and LatalayaHe is also a contributor to the radio station. Regional Wave of Murcia.
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