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Sun, Sep 13, 2026
12:30 PM – 1:20 PM (GMT+2)
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Some lives contain many lives within them, and some family stories reveal the wider history of the places and times that shaped them — sometimes in deeply dramatic ways.
Margaryta Yakovenko emigrated to Spain with her parents at the age of seven, leaving behind loved ones in Ukraine. Since then, everything has changed unexpectedly, and part of her family now lives in territory occupied by Russia.
Together with Jesús García Calero, journalist and one of Spain’s leading cultural communicators, she will revisit the turbulent history of the region over the past century, drawing on her latest work, Occupation, a powerful reckoning with her own past.
At the end of the event, the authors will sign copies of their books.
Event in Spanish
Speakers
Jesús García Calero
Journalist and the editor-in-chief of the Spanish newspaper ABC Cultural
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jesuscalero/
Jesús García Calero is a journalist and the editor-in-chief of the Spanish newspaper ABC Cultural. His areas of expertise include reporting on cultural heritage and cultural policy, as well as public outreach. He is the author of Don Juan contra Franco (2018), an investigative work focused on Francoist intelligence reports targeting monarchists in 1948; Geografía del deseo (2025), a collection of erotic short stories; and Alcalá de Henares. Historia entre ficciones (2024), a literary journey through the history of Cervantes’s birthplace. He has also published the poetry collection Lecciones de tiniebla. He is a leading Spanish-language journalist on underwater archaeology, known for his investigations into the “Odyssey Case” and the San José galleon. He has been a distinguished guest on several archaeological missions in Spain and France and has published essays on this subject, including: Instructions for Finding Treasure (*Antropología*, INAH bulletin, Mexico) and The Impact of Mass Media on the Discrimination of Hispanic Sunken Heritage and the Implementation of the 2001 UNESCO Convention (APCONF, Honolulu).
Margaryta Yakovenko
Author, reporter and Editor
Margaryta Yakovenko was born in Tokmak (Ukraine) in 1992, although she has lived in Spain since the age of seven. She studied Journalism at the University of Murcia and completed a Master’s degree in International Political Journalism at Pompeu Fabra University. She has worked as a reporter and editor at PlayGround, El Periódico de Cataluña and La Opinión de Murcia. She currently works at El País. She published the short story No queda tanto in the anthology Cuadernos de Medusa (2018). Her first novel, Desencajada (2020), was awarded the Gaudí Gresol Prize for Literature in 2022 and the Mandarache Prize in the main category in 2023, and has been translated into Italian and Polish. Ocupación is her latest work.