Literary Journeys: A Conversation with María José Solano
María José Solano shares her literary journeys in a conversation with Professor Alexis Grohmann as part of the AHGBI Annual Conference.
About Literary Journeys: A Conversation with María José Solano
| 8th April 2025 | |
| 5:45pm - 6:30pm | |
| Edinburgh South | |
| This is a free event | |
| Event organiser/part of University of Edinburgh | |
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The Cervantes Chair at the University of Edinburgh presents a conversation between writer and editor María José Solano and Alexis Grohmann, Professor of Hispanic Studies, as part of the AHGBI Annual Conference.
Venue: 50 George Square, Project Room 1.06, Edinburgh, EH8 9LH.
María José Solano holds a degree in Art History from the University of Seville, where her research project focused on ekphrasis in Art History within the framework of the comparative study of literature and painting. She also holds a diploma in Portuguese language and an MBA in Cultural Management from the University of Salamanca. She has taught Cultural Heritage at the Faculty of Tourism and Contemporary Art at the Leonardo Da Vinci School, as well as Art History in the Master's in History of Painting at Nebrija University.
She worked for ten years at the Royal Spanish Academy. She is co-founder of the digital literary magazine zendalibros.com, co-editor of the classic novel collection ZENDA-EDHASA, and a columnist for ABC newspaper. She also hosts the interview programme "Voces de la Cultura" for the Augusto Ferrer-Dalmau Foundation.
As a writer, she specialises in literary travel and is the author of the literary guide Jerez (Tinta Blanca, 2023), the travel book Una aventura griega (Debate, 2023), and a series of literary journeys gathered under the title La mujer que besó a Virgilio (Almuzara, 2024).
Alexis Grohmann is a Professor of Contemporary Spanish Literature and Cervantes Chair at the University of Edinburgh. He is the author of two hundred articles, books, and critical editions of Spanish and European literature. He is also a columnist for The Objective and a foreign corresponding member of the Royal Spanish Academy.
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