The burning chapel can be open from 10:00 a.m. to five:00 p.m. on the Antonio Gala Foundation, the place the author lived throughout his final years. The Córdoba City Council has decreed this Monday because the day of official mourning for the loss of life of the poet and playwright. decreed three days of official mourning for the loss of life of Antonio Gala, who had his summer season residence there
It is exactly within the meeting corridor of the constructing that homes the Antonio Gala Foundation, in what was an outdated convent situated on Ambrosio de Morales road, the place that burning chapel with the stays of the playwright has been put in and the place from 10:15 a.m. This Monday morning hundreds of persons are passing by to say their final goodbye to one of the essential figures within the tradition of the twentieth and twenty first centuries.
A metropolis, that of Córdoba, which lives a day of official mourning decreed by the City Council. In reality, varied institutional representatives, together with the mayor of Córdoba, José María Bellido; the president of Parliament, Jesús Aguirre; the councilors for University, Research and Innovation of the Junta de Andalucía, José Carlos Gómez Villamandos, for Tourism, Culture and Sports, Arturo Bernal, and for Justice, Local Administration and Public Function, José Antonio Nieto, have been the primary to method the muse and refuge of Antonio Gala throughout his final years wherein his public appearances have been fewer and fewer.
In this regard, the mayor this Sunday joined the various voices which have lamented the loss of life of the author who “confirmed his Cordovanism”, recalling that Antonio Gala “favored to say what his origins have been and brag about them.” “He was one of many individuals who has greatest understood and outlined what Córdoba is,” he asserted.
Specifically, the funeral chapel will stay open till 5:00 p.m. this Monday after which the playwright, novelist, poet and essayist who died on the age of 92 can be buried in a non-public ceremony together with his closest family and friends.
The Malaga municipality of Alhaurín el Grande has additionally decreed three days of official mourning for the loss of life of Antonio Gala, who established his summer season residence at Finca la Baltasara because the late Eighties and whose legacy stays intact as a House Museum after the march of the author to his residence in Córdoba throughout his final years of life.
His intensive bibliography
With his first novel, ‘The Crimson Manuscript’ (1990), the prolific writer received the Premio Planeta. This was adopted by ‘The Turkish Passion’ (1994), ‘Beyond the Garden’ (1995), ‘The Rule of Three’ (1996), ‘The Outskirts of God’ (1999), ‘The Impossible Oblivion’ (2001 ) and ‘The friends within the backyard’ (2002).
Subsequently, he printed ‘The proprietor of the wound’ (2003) and ‘The pedestal of the statues’ (2007). ‘Granada de los Nazaríes’ or ‘Andaluz’, each from 1994, and the publication of compilations resembling ‘Córdoba de Gala’ (1993) are the results of his curiosity in Andalusian tradition, wherein he felt he was a participant.
His poetic work contains books printed at an early age, ‘Intimate Enemy’, and others a lot nearer in time: ‘Poemas Cordobeses’ (1994), ‘El águila bicefala: Textos de amor’ (1994), ‘Poemas of affection’ (1997) and ‘The soulless Tobías poem’ (2005).
In addition to the Adonais, Planeta and Calderón de la Barca Awards, he has obtained, amongst others, the next awards: City of Barcelona Award 1965; Theater Forum Award 1971; National Literature Award, Spectator Award and Critics Award of 1972; Golden Quixote Award 1972-73; Antena de Oro Award and Mayte Award of 1973; National Script Award 1973 and Audiovisual Media Award 1976.
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