Joaquín Pérez Azaústre

Writer and cultural manager

Short vita

Joaquín Pérez Azaústre (Córdoba, 1976) has a degree in Law, is a writer and cultural manager. A contributor to media such as El Mundo and Diario Córdoba, he is the director and scriptwriter of the podcast No eran molinos. Clásicos de Literatura Española on RTVE. His collections of poems have won the Adonáis, Loewe and Jaime Gil de Biedma awards. He has published novels such as Los nadadores (Anagrama, 2012, translated into several languages), Atocha 55 (Almuzara, 2020) and La larga noche (Almuzara, 2022, Jaén Novel Prize), about Manolete's last dawn. His next novel will be El querido hermano (Malaga Prize, to be published by Galaxia Gutenberg in 2023), about Manuel and Antonio Machado.

Contributions

Literature

30.01.2023 Joaquín Pérez Azaústre

Mediterranean coasts of the literature

To speak of Edmond Charlot is to sing the song for the dream of a trans-Mediterranean literature. The melody becomes an elegiac whistle: is it still possible? Born in Algiers on 15 February 1915 and died in Béziers on 10 April 2004, Edmond Charlot tried to do so all his life. Between these two dates, he embodied a vision of humanism for the Mediterranean. He was a bookseller rather than a publisher in his charming little bookshop, Las Verdaderas Riquezas, in Algiers, named after the title of a novel he admired by Jean Giono. In his tiny shop, with an echo of time that still looks back on us, he exhibits works of art and becomes a key figure in French cultural action, not only in North Africa or Algeria, but throughout the Mediterranean.

Joaquín Pérez Azaústre

Short vita

Contributions

Mediterranean coasts of the literature