Drawings, tales, images and notebooks: Elvira Lindo’s “childhood” legacy to the Cervantes Institute | Culture | EUROtoday

Elvira Lindo’s legacy is discovered inside a small golden field. It was “very difficult for her to let go of them” this Monday afternoon, however the author took to the Cervantes Institute a pattern of the issues that make her spend her life “in the best possible way”: drawings, tales, notebooks and pictures of her family members. “It is a legacy that has to do with childhood,” mentioned the one who gained the National Prize for Children’s and Youth Literature in 1998. Among the objects are two books from when she was little. The work Tom Sawyer internationally, by Mark Twain, and a novel by William Brown.

“There are so many things” that the journalist doesn’t know if something is omitted. “There is a radio script because I wanted to show the places where I have worked and I love so much,” admits Lindo. “There is cinema, literature… What I know how to do the worst is drawing, it is exactly what I have had the most fun with. So if in the future they do an exhibition about me, let it not just be an edition of a book, but rather something more about how I am: a little childish,” she expressed, accompanied by her husband, additionally a author and Princess of Asturias Award for Literature Antonio Muñoz Molina, and her son.

A group of drawings that she herself fabricated from artists from after they had been little “because that is when anyone deserves love and compassion, from Michael Jackson, Lucia Berlin, Frida Kahlo, David Bowie… to Antonio Muñoz Molina on a fairground donkey.” {A photograph} of each of them in Paris — “one of the first they took of us publicly” — and the ebook open coronary heart in Dutch with a photograph of Lindo’s mother and father on the quilt. As nicely as a really “peculiar” {photograph} of his son “lost in a drawer” and which was revealed a couple of days in the past.

After signing the documentation, Elvira Lindo took her drawings, checked out them for the “last time” and positioned them contained in the field with the number one,610 engraved on the door. The small house appeared that there could be no room for the folder. From the fingers of the director of the Cervantes Institute, Luis García Montero, Lindo obtained the objects of his legacy one after the other and positioned them within the field. “Oh, my first glasses,” the creator exclaimed, as if they’d been lacking for therefore lengthy till that second. He paused for a couple of seconds with every reminiscence. Appeared Sleepless nights, that it was not an version for bookstores, however “for friends.” The script of The surprising life, film filmed in New York “and that it cost so much to shoot,” together with an unpublished textual content by Muñoz Molina in regards to the author’s relationship with that metropolis.

Each field has two keys: one for the Instituto Cervantes and one other, on this case, for Elvira Lindo, who requested if she might take the issues out or the important thing was only for the memento. Laughing, the director of the establishment replied: “You can even put more things in.” On her door it reads: “Elvira Lindo, writer. Bequeathed on 01/12/2026.”

At the occasion, the director of the Cervantes celebrated “the literary strength” of Elvira Lindo, who managed to show an already very talked-about radio character, as Manolito Gafotas was at first, right into a literary one. And do it with humor, “without sarcasm”, overcoming “the temptation of the politically correct” when exploring the territories of the household, the neighborhood (Carabanchel Alto particularly), buddies and “an imbecile brother.” García Montero additionally highlighted the “large doses of poetry and humor” present in Lindo’s “adult narrative,” and talked about works equivalent to The different neighborhood, A phrase from you, What I’ve left to reside o With an open coronary heart, in addition to his journalistic articles and essays. “Comic without remedy” and “resilient in her daily struggle against any censorious voice,” the director of the Cervantes highlighted her “intelligence, innocent look and desire for mischief” of the creator.

At the top of the actor the documentary was screened Elvira Lindo, for instance, an instance…, directed by Iván Marín González.

The Caja de las Letras retains in its protected deposit containers the legacies that since 2007—the author Francisco Ayala, winner of the 1991 Cervantes Prize, inaugurated this cultural ritual—have been deposited by cultural personalities in Spanish. Renowned writers—together with all of the Cervantes Prize winners since that yr—and outstanding names in cinema, artwork, music, dance, theater and science have left traces of their life {and professional} careers on this outdated vault of the Cervantes Institute in Madrid. Due to their dimensions, it’s troublesome to think about that they might accommodate any object bigger than the typewriter left by the Chilean Nicanor Parra. The Caja de las Letras treasures these symbolic legacies below lock and key as a residing reminiscence of the tradition of Spain and the Spanish-speaking nations.