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Next Wednesday, December 18, at 7:00 p.m., the 2024 edition of PEN Català’s “Time Capsule” project will take place in the Sala de la Caritat of the Library of Catalonia. During the event, the translator Marta Pera, ambassador of PEN 2024, will pass the baton to the writer and poet Biel Mesquida, who will be the ambassador of PEN 2025.
The “Time capsule” project was born in April 2023, coinciding with the closing of the events to commemorate the centenary of the Catalan PEN and will end in 2047, when the organization’s 125th anniversary is celebrated.
During this period, the PEN will choose an author each year and commission an unpublished text that will be deposited in the Biblioteca de Catalunya and to which access will not be available until 2047. The person chosen will also become a PEN ambassador for one year, with the mission of promoting and publicizing the values of this organization. PEN Català has been, since its foundation, a platform for the international projection of literature and writers from Catalan-speaking territories.
“The capsule of time” is the result of the commission that the organization made to two partners from different generations: the poet and translator Antoni Clapés and the writer Alba Dalmau. The aim is to establish a dialogue between the present and the future through literature and to reflect on the challenges of our society and the expectations and wishes we project on the future.
The event will begin with the institutional greeting of the director of the Library of Catalonia, Eugènia Serra, and the president of PEN Català, Laura Huerga. Afterwards, Toni Clapés will talk to Marta Pera and Biel Mesquida. Finally, the 2024 ambassador, Marta Pera, will enter her writing in the “time capsule” and pass the box with the blank papers to Biel Mesquida so she can write her proposal for 2025.
Admission is free with limited capacity.
Confirmation of attendance a www.pencatala.cat/event/la-capsula-del-temps-del-pen-del-2024/
The event can be followed via streaming Youtube channel of the Library of Catalonia.
