EVENTS

UPCOMING EVENTS

Welcome to our events page.

Unless stated otherwise, all events occur in
Desperate Literature, Calle Campomanes 13, Madrid,
and are not ticketed!

FRIDAY
Nov 29th – Dec 1st

‘BOOK FRIDAY’
an anti-black friday
in collaboration with Soy de la Cuesta*

 

LAUNCH EVENT
Nov 29th
20h00

Finola Griffin & Mónica Sánchez

A bilingual reading to kick off our weekend!

*Soy de la Cuesta have organized a weekend of events and readings to celebrate literature and resist the ‘Black Friday’ weekend rush. In place of discounts, Soy de la Cuesta have organized a raffle for all book buyers. Everybody who purchases books over the weekend will be entered into the raffle, with the opportunity of winning a €240 book voucher valid in all participating bookshops! UNTIL STOCK LASTS

Join us for our launch with drinks on Friday Nov 29th focusing on Book Friday’s principal theme: ¿Cómo viven los objetos en la literatura?

Two readings that trace memory in radically different ways, from an unusually late coming-of-age story balanced on the nose of a country in the grip of change, to the story of a woman who has, we see, been transformed into nothing less than a book, found by a bibliophile on the hunt for 17th century engravings.

Born in London, FINOLA GRIFFIN has lived in Guatemala, Costa Rica and Madrid where she has worked for many years as a copy writer, translator and teacher of English language and literature. Her stories have been longlisted for the Fish Short Story Prize, Desperate Literature Short Story Prize, and placed in the Berlin Writing Prize. She has been a reader this year for the Desperate Literature Short Story Prize, and is the creator/founder of @thewritermadrid, a hub for creative writing workshops and courses.

MÓNICA SÁNCHEZ (Madrid, 1970), autora de las novelas La hija de Kafka (El Andén, 2009) y Zapatos rotos (JP Libros, 2010), primer premio del certamen Zayas de Novela Corta. También escribió Hormiga blanca (Ménades Editorial, 2019), una colección de relatos basados en la obra de Herman Melville. Ha publicado tres ensayos sobre exclusión social: A ciegas, mil historias de la calle, En dos, un viaje a las fronteras y Solo luna, treinta cartas a una dama sin hogar con Obra Social Caja Madrid y la Fundación RAIS. Prologó Magia Café, obra de la dramaturga española Paloma Pedrero. En 2008 ganó el Premio Internacional de Teatro Breve Ciudad de Requena con la obra Cama caliente a la deriva. En dos ocasiones ha resultado finalista del prestigioso concurso Cosecha Eñe de Relato: en 2008 con Primer amor, y en 2015 con El enemigo. Publica sus reseñas literarias en Criticismo.

SATURDAY
December 14th
20h00

OUR (first) HOLIDAY GATHERING

We welcome all friends, family and book lovers to toast our 10th and last Christmas in Calle Campomanes. Bring a bottle, get those last minute gifts!

WEDNESDAY
DECEMBER 25th
12h00

And as it’s our last Christmas, we’ve decided to open on the 25th with food and drink! Bring a plate, bring a friend…come toast.