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Consuelo Varela in conversation with Ignacio Camacho
Waiting for Columbus
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Fundación Valentín de Madariaga
Christopher Columbus is the protagonist of this event. Sailor and European discoverer of America, history has conferred upon him the status of conquistador. But the man elevated to the rank of hero was also a person, in the most private sense of the term. A leading expert on Columbus, historian Consuelo Varela, will speak about the human side of the sailor, a side perfectly captured in the exhibition she is curating, Letters from Columbus. The Americas in the House of Alba, which can be visited in Madrid until next January. The letters she has analysed reflect Columbus's concerns for his children, his personal tastes, and his dismay at injustices. Consuelo Varela, a Seville-born historian, is a researcher at the School of Spanish-American Studies, which belongs to the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC). A specialist in Christopher Columbus, she was the first woman director of the Reales Alcázares historic royal palace in Seville. Recipient of the 2009 City of Seville Medal, she has published a dozen books and hundreds of articles on the Americas and on Christopher Columbus.
She will discuss this with the Sevilliano journalist Ignacio Camacho. A graduate in Hispanic Languages and Literature from the University of Seville, after working in newspapers such as El Correo de Andalucía, Diario 16 and El Mundo, in 2000 he joined ABC, which he went on to direct between 2004 and 2005. He is a contributor to talk shows on media channels such as Cope and Antena 3. Author of several books of political analysis, he is a member of the Real Academia Sevillana de Buenas Letras (Royal Academy of Literature), and has been awarded the González-Ruano prize; Mariano de Cavia prize; and the Miguel Delibes National Journalism Award.
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