Claudia Luna Palencia has a successful autograph session at the Madrid Book Fair

At prime time The Spanish-Mexican writer, journalist and economist Claudia Luna Palencia participated in the Madrid Book Fair on Saturday, June 15, at stand 37 of the Juan Rulfo bookstore.

The author signed several of her books, especially the second edition of her story “The Rescue of the Turtle Pepe” by Editorial Algorfa, which is great fun for children and their parents.

Her novel “The Mothball Club”, Set in Madrid in 1999, the film deals with the loneliness of older people in a mortgage-laden Spain during a real estate boom. It did not go unnoticed.

The story is based on a true event and reflects the moment experienced by Spanish society, especially in Madrid. and which years later led to most of the problems that still exist today.

Luna Palencia is the granddaughter of Julián Palencia González, who fought for the Republic in Almería. and ended up in a forced labor camp in Bou Arfa, Algeria, for the construction of the Trans-Saharan Railway. He came to Mexico as a political refugee.

She holds Spanish nationality and has lived in Spain for several periods. until she settled permanently in Malaga, although she works in Madrid as a journalist and correspondent at the Moncloa and is an expert in geopolitics and geoeconomics.

Claudia Luna is currently president of the Casa de México in Málaga and Andalusia and has received several awards for her work. Those who know her define her as a “very special” person with outstanding emotional intelligence; she has been a student with excellent grades since childhood. She shows empathy for those around her, full of sensitivity, a deep simplicity and modesty.

Your books do not go unnoticed. The filmmaker Ana Laura Calderón, awarded in Spain for “Corazón de Mezquite”, is making the film adaptation of the novel “The Mothball Club”.

Her story “The rescue of the turtle Pepe”, published by Editorial Algorfa, has reached its second edition with the beautiful drawings of the talented Cristina Guzmán from Malaga.

It is a story written in rhyme that Luna Palencia wanted to share with her daughter Claudia Genoveva Loret de Mola. The result is an exciting story that grabs you from the first page.

The children are excited and almost always ask their parents for a turtle as a gift. “Pepe the turtle takes adults on a search for their lost childhood and tells the adventures of a very naughty little girl and her favorite pet.”

Next Wednesday, June 19, at 6:30 p.m., he will present the second edition of his story in Malaga at Keyzen Soho, Casas de Campos 15. The presentation will be given by the well-known Malaga journalist, Manolo Reina.

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