Literature and football, day 2

Today, Tuesday, November 21, at 19:00, in the Foral Library of Bilbao, follow the Letters and Football 2017 encounters, with a conversation between the writers Miqui Otero and Laura Fernández, under the title ‘Football, culture and surroundings’ , which will be moderated by Paula Corroto.

The entrance, through Astarloa street, is free until complete capacity.

The first toy of Miqui Otero (Barcelona, 1980) was a Mickey Mouse dressed in the Meyba shirt of FC Barcelona and white gloves. On one occasion, he sank a chair in a box, in an epic game that more than winning the club, lost Deportivo de la Coruña. That episode was a knot of contradictions at all levels. He debuted as a novelist in 2010 with the acclaimed novel Hilo musical (Alpha Decay), New Talent FNAC award, and two years later came the time capsule (Blackie Books), which after being elected book of the year in Rockdelux and enter the list of the top ten of headers such as ABC, in its third edition has sold more than 10,000 copies. He is a regular contributor to media such as El País and Cultura/s of La Vanguardia and columnist for El Periódico. He is also a professor of journalism and literature at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Rayos (Blackie Books, 2016) is the latest novel. Also the most intimate and ambitious. With her, she consolidated as one of the most outstanding and imaginative voices of the Spanish literary panorama.

Laura Fernández (Terrassa, 1981) is also the author of five novels, including the fabulous Connerland (Random House Literature, 2017), and journalist and literary and musical critic, an expert in managerial leagues of all the simulators of football that exist, a discreet merengue – when you live in Barcelona you can not be discreet if you’re a meringue – and former player of the worst female soccer team in the world: the one that she set up herself in her high school. Institute that, incidentally, had the name of a Polish astronomer: Nicolau Copèrnic. He has two children and a lot of books by Philip K. Dick. And Philip K. Dick is, in fact, the name under which he trains Real Madrid in all those manager leagues that he plays.

Paula Corroto (Madrid, 1979) remembers school recesses playing soccer in the playground. Neither the rubber nor the rope, the ball and hitting balls. The weekends were to be sitting in front of the TV and watch the Real Madrid matches and those thumps in the European Cup against Juve, Bayern Munich or PSG. He cried a lot before the seventh and Mijatovic’s goal. Then came other things and work as a journalist in media such as Público, where he was part of the Cultures section, El País, El Confidencial, JotDown and Letras Libres, in which he continues to collaborate. And he also continued with football, since he played in a team with some friends -it was called QuéPutoEscándalo F.C-, although with that name it was logical that in the end what ended up winning was the third time.