Event 36 - Italian writer Andrea Marcolongo in conversation with prominent Spanish writer and journalist Juan Cruz

Name: Event 36 - Italian writer Andrea Marcolongo in conversation with prominent Spanish writer and journalist Juan Cruz
Start: 2023-09-16T11:10:00+02:00
End: 2023-09-16T12:00:00+02:00
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Sat, Sep 16, 2023

11:10 AM – 12 PM (GMT+2)

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A HUMANIST FUTURE

Paris-based Italian writer Andrea Marcolongo is an international phenomenon. A scholar of ancient Greece and Rome, in her latest book there is a thread that connects the epic of the warriors and navigators of ancient mythology with the venerable salon of the École Militaire in Paris. Marcolongo herself is a member of Les Écrivains de marine (Writers of the French Navy), a select club to which other illustrious figures such as Arturo Pérez-Reverte belong, and which has its headquarters in the 18th-century complex of buildings opposite the Eiffel Tower. Andrea Marcolongo (Milan, 1987), writer and journalist, holds a degree in Classical Literature from the University of Milan. She is the author of the literary phenomenon The Language of the Gods (2017), The Measure of Heroes (2019) and La lezione di Enea (2020). Her books have been translated into 28 languages.

She will be in conversation with Juan Cruz, a prominent Spanish writer and journalist, who has spent most of his professional career at the newspaper El País; he is currently attached to the presidency of Prensa Ibérica and writes in the media of this group. He has been awarded prizes such as the Azorín prize for novels and the National Prize for Cultural Journalism.

The event will be presented by the general director of the Banco Sabadell Foundation, Sonia Mulero.

After the event, the authors will sign copies of their books at the book stall at the entrance of IE University.

Event with simultaneous translation from Italian into Spanish and vice versa.

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Andrea Marcolongo

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ES: Andrea Marcolongo es miembro de los Escritores de la Marina, selecto club francés al que pertenecen otros ilustres conocidos como Arturo Pérez-Reverte y que tiene su sede en este complejo de edificios frente a la Torre Eiffel edificado en el siglo XVIII. Andrea Marcolongo (Milán, 1987), escritora y periodista, es licenciada en Letras Clásicas por la Universidad de Milán. Es autora del fenómeno literario La lengua de los dioses (2017); y también ha escrito, entre otros libros, La medida de los héroes (2019), Etimologías para sobrevivir al caos (2021), El arte de resistir (2023) y Desplazar la luna (2024). El arte de correr (2025) es su último trabajo. Sus libros han sido traducidos a 28 lenguas. En la actualidad es colaboradora del programa 24 horas de RNE, donde cuenta con una sección en la que traza los hilos de unión entre la Grecia clásica y la actualidad.

EN: Andrea Marcolongo is a member of the Writers of the Navy, a select French club that includes other illustrious figures such as Arturo Pérez-Reverte and is based in a complex of buildings opposite the Eiffel Tower, built in the 18th century. Andrea Marcolongo (Milan, 1987), a writer and journalist, holds a degree in Classical Literature from the University of Milan. She is the author of the literary phenomenon "The Language of the Gods" (2017), and has also written other books including "The Measure of Heroes" (2019), "Etymologies to Survive Chaos" (2021), "The Art of Resisting" (2023), and "Moving the Moon" (2024). Her latest work is "The Art of Running" (2025). Her books have been translated into 28 languages. Currently, she is a collaborator on the program "24 Hours" on RNE, where she has a section that connects classical Greece with contemporary times.