Irene Vallejo: compilation of all her books

Irene Vallejo

Irene Vallejo Moreu (Zaragoza, 1979) She is a classical philologist and writer. She divides her work between research on the Greco-Latin era and its authors, and creative writing.. Received the National Essay Award in 2020 by Infinity in a reed. She is the fifth woman to achieve it.

His work covers very different themes.. From children's and youth narrative, through the most legendary stories, the civil war or essay. Irene Vallejo is also a short story writer and we can read her in some anthology.

Irene Vallejo likes to feel connected to her land and collaborates in the Heraldo de Aragón. As an author from Aragon, the region has awarded her its highest recognition, the Aragon Award 2021. also write for The country, y en The past that awaits you (2010) Someone talked about us (2017) and The future remembered (2020) you can find his journalistic collaborations compiled.

The literary keys of Irene Vallejo

Irene Vallejo has always been in love with literature. Much of her work dates back to the very origin of written texts, to the classical world. And she is a strong defender of the humanities and the constructive value they have had from Alexandria to the present day, with the internet.

Presents books as instruments of truth, treasures that serve as the key to human knowledge. Likewise, he defines them as containers for the emotions and ideas of human beings, preserved thanks to brave and anonymous people, daughters of their time, who understood the importance of the written word.

As humans we live our experiences as if they were new, but they are the same sensations, the same concerns in essence that have brought the inhabitants of this world upside down. Books are there to expand these individual conceptions that we create for ourselves and that sometimes make us feel so alone.

She says that she is very grateful that she grew up in a bibliophile family, however, it was only the experience of bullying she suffered as a child at school that prompted her to express herself. Recognizes that books have been by far one of the best inventions, and that they have saved man in the worst situations. And they helped her too. Literature broadens our vision of the world and helps us to empathize, to understand each other as a species, the only one capable of stringing together texts.

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Irene Vallejo: narrative and informative work

Book and literary-critical terminology in Martial (2008)

It is an informative book that focuses on the figure of Marcial, a Latin poet who lived in the first century AD. This academic work meditates on the position of the book and literature during this century and studies the lexicography used by the Latin author. A precise work aimed at professionals or those interested in the subject.

The buried light (2011)

It is a short novel set at the dawn of the Spanish Civil War. It narrates how the conflict hit the life of a middle-class family in the city of Zaragoza and how they cope with the uncertainty generated by the beginning of a war. Posted by editorial bracket.

The inventor of travel (2014) and The legend of the gentle tides (2015)

The inventor of travel They are children's stories inspired by the stories of Lucian of Samosata (XNUMXnd century AD). However, as often happens, adults can also enjoy and enrich themselves with this reading. Irene Vallejo brings us and the little ones stories steeped in mythology and classical legend. Y The legend of the gentle tides It also has an old look. He picks up the vision of an Ovid fable and transforms it to teach it to the youngest.

Irene Vallejo stimulates children and adolescents to read, and especially to discover the classics through adventure and imagination. It may be that her experience with her school abuse pushed her to create these juvenile stories hand in hand with the classics that orbit most of her work. In addition, she is aware of the importance of literacy and how books help in this task, a fundamental right of all children. She says that children become someone else when they learn to read.

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The archer's whistle (2015)

In this novel Irene Vallejo takes us back to the classical past, but not as a temporary gap. The author always wants to connect past and present with a natural and necessary, obvious gesture. It is an adventure and love novel full of myth and legend with Aeneas as the protagonist and hero. The poet Virgilio will write the story of Aeneas and will also become the protagonist. A book where the past and the future of the past feed each other. Post Publisher Password.

barefoot morning (2018)

It is a game of poetry and narrative situated between the present and the wonderful world of classical mythology. Vallejo's prose texts are combined with the poems of the Argentine writer Inés Ramón.

Infinity in a reed (2019)

Publications siruelaInfinity in a Reed: The Invention of Books from the Ancient World prints on the material the relevance of the origin of our sheets of paper. From the reeds papyri were made, and there the infinite ideas of Literature began to be calligraphed, which today continue without exhaustion.

This book is, in the words of the author, a tribute to all the people who have protected and saved books. It is a way of thanking all of them. Because books are our past, present and future legacy. From stone and clay to Kindle.

It is a history of the book and Irene Vallejo travels through the great places of History; from where the books left their mark, to the moments in which they made them disappear. But when the texts were in danger of death there was always someone who protected them (slaves, copyists, scribes, monks and nuns, booksellers, librarians, inventors, teachers, professors, travelers, publishers, or readers).

It's hard to get bored with this fast-paced journey in which the author immerses us, which makes us travel the world and history, and where we are reminded that women also played a fundamental narrating role. The funny thing is that Irene Vallejo has obtained from a philological treatise an entertaining book full of wisdom that also attracts non-specialized readers.

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manifesto for reading (2020)

Publications siruela. Short essay of 64 pages in which Irene Vallejo makes an apology for reading. She says how much she owes and doesn't need more. Full of good and healthy bookish lessons that invite you to read and create reading habits. That it is.


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