Literary meeting with Doña Ana Alcolea. 2018-2019
“By reading we live many lives. Reading sets us free and widens our path.
Ana Alcolea.
Within the Proyecto Lector of the Department of Language and Literature and in collaboration with the Anaya publishing house, on March 5 a literary meeting took place with Mrs. Ana Alcolea, writer and teacher of Language and Literature, awarded among other prizes, with the Cervantes Chico Prize .
Doña Ana shared with the students of the four Secondary Education courses literary experiences of her works "The lost medallion" (her first book) and "The forest of dead trees", both read by our students this course, while He gave answers to all the doubts and clarified concerns that arose around these and other works.
The students also showed interest in his works “Carlota's portrait” and “Where seagulls learn to fly”.
He began his speech with a very interesting reflection, stating that "when reading a book, readers are as creative as the writers themselves", that is where the magic of writing lies. And it is that, as she affirmed, words do not mean the same for everyone: “words transform us and we transform them at the same time”.
Doña Ana Alcolea is aware (and this was conveyed during her visit) that her books, the stories she tells and the characters she creates can generate different feelings in each of her readers. "A book says something different to each of us ”. That is why she considers it essential to write from emotions (a fundamental pillar of novels in her opinion) and she recommended that students with literary hobbies not stop capturing her stories. "A good writer or writer has to be attentive to what surrounds him and be curious."
He knew how to convey his love for books, emphasizing that when reading we feed thought, and also emphasizing that "reading grants the ability to have critical and free thinking."
This activity to encourage reading was a space for reflection, an enriching and enjoyable meeting, in which the attendees actively participated in which we all learned that "words are healing and that expressing oneself serves to heal wounds."
