• 50th Anniversary Anagram: The Equinoctial Adventure of Jorge Herralde

The founder of Anagrama, Jorge Herralde , has confessed today, before editors and authors who have attended an act of homage in Barcelona for the 50 years of the publishing house, that "the edition is the most beautiful trade in the world".

Herralde has acknowledged that, for him, this party is "the culmination of fifty years on the road " at the head of a trade he feels "happily doomed" . In a first act of tribute this Thursday in Barcelona, ​​prior to tonight's party, international authors of the Anagram catalog have attended such as Alessandro Baricco, Jean Echenoz, Richard Ford, Hanif Kureishi, Philipp Blom, Roberto Calasso, Emmanuel Carrère, Jonathan Coe, Melania Mazzucco, Yasmina Reza, Delphine de Vigan, Philippe Sands or Irvine Welsh.

At night, Spanish authors such as Jordi Amat, Milena Busquets, Jorge Carrión, David Castillo, Josep Maria Colomer, Eloy Fernández Porta, Jordi Gracia, Romà Gubern, Javier Mariscal, Nazario, Marcos Ordóñez, Sergi Pàmies or Javier Pérez are added Andújar

The founder of Anagrama, Jorge Herralde, during the act of homage for the 50 years of the publishing house, along with some of its emblematic authors.Enric Fontcuberta

The assistance of Jaume Sisa, Patricia Soley-Beltrán, Gonzalo Torner, Juan Pablo Villalobos, Martín Caparrós, Marcos Giralt Torrente, Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón, Miguel Ángel Hernández, José Antonio Marina, Luis G. Martín, Vicente Molina Foix, Justo is also expected Navarro, Soledad Puértolas, Marta Sanz or David Trueba.

In the act of this noon, Carlo Feltrinelli, president of the Feltrinelli Group, current owner of Anagrama, said that "in this era of the tyranny of technology, of induced needs, of sophisticated algorithms, of sad passions in apparently saturated societies, there are few adventures in the publishing world as exciting as Anagram's . "

Anagrama, Feltrinelli added, is "the best dream publishing project for anyone interested in the publishing world," based on "strong convictions and a taste for literary quality." The Barcelona label "throws flowers on the stage of bookstores around the world," Feltrinelli said, always impressed when he sees Anagrama's yellow cover features on the bookstores in Barcelona, ​​Bogotá, Buenos Aires or Mexico City.

The Italian publisher has assured that he knows few publishers in the world comparable to Anagrama : "none has the remarkable tenacity of Jorge Herralde, who has exercised his freedom to confront, reject, promote, and ultimately publish", "an obsessive work that half an century ago it represented an effective antidote to Franco's Spain, and he knew how to see the idea of ​​a vital, reasoned, cosmopolitan and open Europe. "

In his brief speech, Herralde has been glad to see "as many familiar faces" as the Italian writers, the "British Navy", the French, the Latin Americans.

Herralde has acknowledged that "Anagrama is the publishing house that has more systematically attracted foreign authors to Barcelona" and has dedicated a special mention to Richard Ford, who has come from the United States, from where he has not been able to come for health reasons Richard Sennet, and his Argentine colleague Daniel Divinsky, whom he has known since the 1950s.

As he has said on numerous occasions, the great author who would have liked to publish and who never had a chance is Jorge Luis Borges

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