This Literary Thursday at 6:00 p.m., Casa Haas receives researcher José Carlos Zazueta Manjarrez, who does not consider himself a writer but ventured into children’s literature with: “Romina and the grumpy cloud” and “Short Stories of the Imagination”, works that will be discussed by the author in this meeting with the Mazatlecan public.
“Romina and the Grumpy Cloud” is an author’s edition that tells the story of a girl who likes to draw, go to school and one day from the classroom window, she sees a big cloud that is angry and tries to advise her to have a happier life.
“Short Stories of the Imagination” is a small book made up of micro stories written by the author 40 years ago when he was studying at the School of Anthropology.
It is an illustrated book, an interesting work that he completed with some recently created stories, whose theme is inspired by the work of the surrealist painter Remedios Varo.
José Carlos Zazueta Manjarrez has a degree in Social Anthropology from the National School of Anthropology and History and a Master’s degree in Art History from the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the National Autonomous University of Mexico. He graduated in Sociology and Social Research from the Faculty of Economics and Actuarial Sciences of the Sapienza University of Rome, Italy.
He currently works as Director of Historical Collections and Library of El Colegio de Sinaloa, a cultural institution in which he has directed the research work that culminated in the publication of three Atlases of flora, fauna and ecosystems of Sinaloa, the Dictionary of Sinaloisms, six catalogs of documentary sources for the History of the Northwest and the first two volumes of the General History of Sinaloa, among other projects.
He has also coordinated, for fifteen years, the Seminar “Religion and the Jesuits in the Northwest of New Spain,” an international academic forum specialized in this topic and which has so far published six volumes of his memoirs. Likewise, and for a year now, he has coordinated, on the Mexican side, the Mazatlán International Forum “Crossing Borders,” a binational academic event (US and Mexico) that is in its second edition.
Literary Thursday is promoted by the Instituto de Cultura de Mazatlán, an initiative of maestra María Muñiz who coordinates the programming every week and introduces the guests. Admission to the event is free, space is limited.
