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The writer, journalist and researcher Javier Sierra offers tomorrow, Tuesday June 6, in Caravaca de la Cruz, the conference entitled 'The Mysteries of the Temple'.
The activity, which will take place at 20.30 hours, in the House of Culture 'Emilio Sáez', is part of the program of the Book Fair, organized by the Department of Culture of the City of Caravaca de la Cruz, through The Municipal Library.
The entrance will be free until capacity is completed.
Sierra will lecture on one of the themes that have most interested the author along his as is the Templar legend.
The author is currently immersed in the preparation of a series of documentaries for television about the universe of enigmas of History that encompasses his work, as well as the culmination of a novel in which he has been working for three years.
Javier Sierra (Teruel, 1971) is the only contemporary Spanish author who has managed to place his novels in the top ten of the best-selling books in the United States.
His works are translated into more than forty languages ​​and are a source of inspiration for many readers who are looking for something more than entertainment in a story of intrigue.
Formed in the world of journalism, he was director of the magazine Beyond Science for seven years, as well as presenter and director of radio and television spaces in Spain.
It has given to press very popular titles among which they emphasize 'The secret dinner' (published in 43 countries), 'The blue lady' (published in other 20), 'The forbidden route', 'The templar gates',' Lost ',' El Maestro del Prado '(which was the best-selling Spanish fiction in 2013) or' The Immortal Pyramid '.
To his credit are several literary awards as his finalist to the Prize of Novel City of Torrevieja by The Secret Dinner, or international as his three Latin Book Awards awarded to the Best Historical Novel of the year 2007 published in English in the USA, by The Blue Lady, and the 2011 Best Novel of Adventures in English and Spanish, by The Lost Angel.
All his books have a common denominator: they serve as bridge to the reader to cross from this to other worlds.
And they do it on a footbridge cemented on solidly documented scientific and historical mysteries.
Often the author explains that his literary work in both narrative and essay-must be understood as a whole.
"While in my research books I transfer great questions to the reader, in my novels I put my imagination to work to propose answers that will clear them," he says.
Among his personal endeavors is to emphasize that the occult, the extreme and heterodox beliefs, the magical or the supernatural, are inexcusable part of our culture and must be elements that are studied, pondered and disseminated with rigor.
His works are the result of this effort and have made Javier Sierra an author with a voice of his own, unique in the international contemporary literary scene.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Caravaca de la Cruz
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