CATALONIA -- Spaanse ambassade blaast lezing Sánchez Piñol af - nrc.nl
The
lecture that the Catalan author Albert Sánchez Piñol would give at the
Cervantes Institute in Utrecht tonight is called off at the last minute. The Spanish Embassy does not allow the meeting.
Reported that the Dutch publisher of Sánchez Pinols books, Signature.
The lecture would be about Sánchez Pinols novel Victus, the fall of Barcelona, which includes the end of the Catalan independence is discussed in 1714.
Signature had the evening where Sánchez Piñol in talks with his Dutch
translator go along with the Cervantes Institute organized.
This morning the Cervantes Institute contacted SIGNATURE with the
announcement that the evening could not continue. Authority of the
Spanish government
One reason is Juliette van Wersch, publisher Signatura, not of the
Cervantes Institute told only that the lecture "sensitive" would be.
Van Wersch says "to be that on Dutch soil, where freedom of speech is
great thing, a public conversation between an author and his translator
is boycotted from abroad shocked."
The lecture is not moved to a different time or a different location. There it was, according to Van Wersch too short for that.
Albert Sánchez Piñol (Photo SIGNATURE)
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