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Josep-Anton Fernàndez at QMUL for the 2023 Joanot Martorell Lecture

On 1st Feburary, Dr Josep-Anton Fernàndez visited Queen Mary University of London to give the 2023 Joanot Martorell Lecture, organised in association with the Insituto Cervantes London.

Josep-Anton, who taught at Queen Mary from 1993 to 2006 and who founded the Centre for Catalan Studies, gave a paper entitled “An Empty Origin: Migration and Mourning in the Catalan Literature of the Argentine Diaspora”.

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Teresa Solana’s ‘The Sound of One Hand Killing’ at the Queen Mary Catalan Book Club

On 18 December the last event organised by the Centre for Catalan Studies in 2023 took place: a new edition of the Queen Mary Catalan Book Club, in which we discussed Teresa Solana’s The Sound of One Hand Killing (L’Hora Zen: Un crim refinat). We were lucky enough that the author joined us for the event.

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