Madrid says the writer, in the cycle of national writers, to be a universal writer for all audiences "for more than my articles and novels reflect not only my beliefs, but the values we intend to illuminate the life"
"In my 39 years, I am a young person, and certainly all of you for being here, I also feel that way.
I therefore invite you to dream, to call to fulfill your dreams and discover those gifts that you have been given at birth. "
Thus, Miguel Aranguren began his lecture "Experiences of a young writer 'in the cycle of national writers, River of letters, held in White until May 29th, the day that Cesar Vidal closed the meeting.
The author of books like The blood of the pelican or the minister's daughter, his last novel, led the audience through the stories of his life that led him to write novels, and also wanted to congratulate the City of White is firmly committed "for a good-looking culture that not many years ago was a matter of a few and now belongs to us all."
Aranguren said in White that we all have a novel inside, though, someone well, it may take even a writer, "if so, let it out, write without fear, because a writer is not a freak."
Madrid writer confided to the audience that we all have various gifts, and that he was given, among others, literature "even in small drops, there have to be working continuously."
Aranguren said to be a happy person, an expert in love, "I married eleven years and I have wonderful children.
Also, I have the good fortune to make many people are in the same places I've been without leaving their homes. "
For him, "Once a writer has finished his novel, it no longer belongs to it belongs to the reader, who makes a pact with the author and is strongly believed that everything that the book tells is true, no matter what it is a fantasy book like Lord of the Rings. "
Aranguren, who proclaims himself as a Catholic Christian, said in White for dreams are fulfilled "first have to dream."
Madrid to the author from his dream was to travel to tiny African country that said it had largely been done because of the writer.
At just 17 years, Aranguren, driven by his mother traveled to Kenya to work in solidarity.
"There," confided the author met Mother Teresa of Calcutta, I met extreme poverty, the wonder of the savanna, and also reunited with death. "
A friend of 31 years died saving the life of a native and after his return on the plane, Aranguren began to mourn and opened a travelogue, where he scored as a diary their daily lives in the African country.
At that time, the writer said, "I realized that when you read my travelogue was again coming to Kenya, knowing Teresa of Calcutta, sleeping on the savannah, looking to die in my arms to my great friend, and I felt I had to tell my experience was the rest of the world. "
That's how Aranguren wrote his first novel 'From African train' which published only 19 years, becoming one of the younger writers to publish a book.
He concluded his intervention in the cycle of national writers explaining to the audience his Literary Excellence project that aims to discover new talents in literature, so that covers institutes in search of young people who have the gift of literature.
The next and final conference in Rio de Letras will be taught by Cesar Vidal, on May 29 at 20 pm in the Cultural Center Miguel Ángel Abenza.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Blanca