Spinoza Conference 2024: Ignacio Martínez de Pisón

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Date: 14-11-2024

Time: 17:15

Venue: Leiden Universiteit. Campus Den Haag (Wijnhaven) Turfmarkt 99 2511 DP Den Haag

Language: This lecture is in Spanish with translation to English and Dutch

Registration: Free and mandatory via this link

The Spinoza Lecture is an annual lecture given in Spanish by a prominent personality of Hispanic literature, organized since 2005 by the Cultural Council of the Spanish Embassy in The Hague and the Cervantes Institute in Utrecht. On this occasion, the Conference will take place at the Hague Campus of the University of Leiden, the city where the Dutch philosopher of Sephardic origin died in 1677 and which will host the event for the first time. The Spinoza Lecture 2024 will be given by the Spanish novelist Ignacio Martínez de Pisón, one of the most respected voices of Hispanic prose of our time, considered by many to be the greatest representative of current realist literature in Spanish. Ignacio Martínez de Pisón (Zaragoza, 1960) is the author of more than fifteen books, among which stand out the novels Carreteras secundarias (1996); El tiempo de las mujeres (2003); Dientes de leche (2008), winner of the San Clemente Prize and the Giuseppe Acerbi Prize; Tomorrow’s Day (2011), for which she received the Critics’ Prize, the Ciutat de Barcelona Prize and the Aragonese Letters Prize; La buena reputación (2014), winner of the National Narrative Prize and the Cálamo Prize for Book of the Year; Derecho natural (2017); Fin de temporada (2020) and Castillos de fuego (2023). She has also published the essays Enterrar a los muertos (2005), which won the Rodolfo Walsh and Dulce Chacón prizes and was unanimously praised by critics in several European countries, and Filek. El estafador que engañó a Franco (2018); the book of short stories Aeropuerto de Funchal (2009) and, most recently, her memoirs Ropa de casa (2024). Her work has been translated into a dozen languages, including Dutch.

OSL is collaborating on organizing the Spinoza Conference 2024 edition. For more information, click here.