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The Cartagena has received this evening your "Golden Castillete" in an official ceremony has included "Flamenco Arts" conference, the journalist Juan Ramón Lucas, and has enjoyed the strong presence of the Chinese Ambassador to Spain Zhu Bangzao .
The Mayor of La Union and Executive Chairman of the Foundation Cante de las Minas, Francisco Bernabé, today imposed the writer Arturo Pérez-Reverte's "Golden Castillete" International Festival del Cante de Las Minas, in recognition of his great career and his uncompromising defense of the Spanish culture.
It is the highest distinction awarded by this institution Festival.
The event featured the Chinese Ambassador to Spain Zhu Bangzao, the third president of this level you visit La Union in two days (yesterday they did that of India and Japan), and Barnabas was led to remark that this meeting would give "very good results" in a short time.
The Ambassador stressed that the Festival is also well known in his country, and has said that he really like the flamenco.
Before a packed auditorium of the City Council, recalled the extensive experience of the award-winning, from his early years as a journalist "war" until his last literary successes.
Are more than 30 novels he has written Arturo Pérez-Reverte, translated into 40 languages ​​and many adapted to film.
The author works as well known as "Captain Alatriste", "The Club Dumas", "Uncovered", "The Siege", or the latest one, "The patient sniper", thanked the award "Castillete Gold "recalling his ties to this land and its mining past.
In fact, one of his great-directed paths mining in Linares and La Union.
Pérez-Reverte has evoked the not too distant past, that comes to mind in the form of walks around the village visiting friends of his grandparents, listening to stories about the mineral wealth that brought the whole region, and the cultural splendor of an era full of cafés-singers, taverns and a lot of art, particularly flamenco.
But also sadness, sing "to take penalties out" to forget the tragedies such as silicosis or sudden death.
He also stressed that his first job as a journalist, with only 17 years in the newspaper "The Truth" was a story inside a mine Cabezo Rajao La Union.
In this week accompanying the miners, Pérez-Reverte remembered the heat, humidity, harsh working conditions, those who then moved their mining songs, roots unionense Festival.
A Festival that must serve to keep his memory alive, and as a tribute to them.
The new "Gold Castillete" has also directed some very kind words to his friend and professional colleague, journalist Juan Ramón Lucas, whom he met when he tests for Pueblo newspaper reporter.
And he has said, and showed "race" brilliant journalist.
And, just before the delivery of the "Golden Castillete" Perez-Reverte, Lucas has described in his "Flamenco Arts" conference, the close ties between the two artistic disciplines, and stressed the high quality of work literary Perez-Reverte.
He has been compared to Shakespeare, Homer and Conrad, saying that "only great writers have really portrayed the human condition" group in which, according to Juan Ramón Lucas, you can include Arturo Pérez-Reverte.
Source: Agencias
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