SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, 22 Apr. (EUROPE PRESS) –
The soldier-poet from Tenerife, Guillermo de Jorge, will intervene on April 29, at 5:00 p.m., at the Cervantes Institute in Stockholm in a talk-colloquium and with the paper ‘Literature from the Canary Islands in Sweden. A look beyond tourism’.
The event will be presented by the writer and translator David Guijosa Aeberhard under the auspices of the Embassy of Spain in Sweden and the Government of the Canary Islands through the program ‘Canarias Crea’.
De Jorge is secretary general of the Euro-African International Forum and member of the technical secretariat of the Ibero-American Congress of Family Businesses and SMEs, organized on the occasion of the Ibero-American Congress of Heads of State.
His commitment to human rights has led him to always be in close contact with NGOs sensitive to the Charter of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and, in this last stage, to assume the responsibilities as general secretary of the Euro-African International Forum, interconnecting the different social actors in Europe and Africa in a space aimed at the social, cultural and human development of territories and peoples.
He is also a non-commissioned officer of the Army of the Infantry Weapon, a Higher Mountain Diploma from the Military Mountain School and Special Operations of the Army.
He has participated in cooperative security operations and peace missions, meaning his stay in Mauritania, Afghanistan and Iraq and has been in countries such as Morocco, Portugal, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Kuwait and France.
To date, he has published eleven books of poems, including ‘In legitimate defense: Living is not enough’, with a prologue by Cecilia Domínguez Luis, Canary Islands Prize for Literature, and ‘HK-G36E’, with a prologue by Rafael Guillén, National Prize for Literature.
In narrative he is the author of ‘Relatos a Glo’ and as ‘Cuadernos de Combate’ he has edited: ‘Irak: Diario de un legionario’ and ‘Afganistan: Diario de un Soldado’, with a prologue by Lorenzo Silva.
He has also held photographic exhibitions, including ‘Afganistan: Pasajes’, together with Lorenzo Silva, Planeta Novel Prize, and curated by the plastic artist Fernando Barrionuevo, and ‘Heads and Houses’, with the professor of Fine Arts at the University from Granada, Pedro Osakar, and curated by Barrionuevo.
The ‘Literature from the Canary Islands in Sweden’ project, through the various agreed collaboration framework and institutional synergies, is promoted by its coordinator David Guijosa and tries to promote Spanish writers and, for this occasion, especially those who develop his creative process in the Canary Islands.
