On Wednesday, October 2, the professor of Spanish Literature, poet and director of the Cervantes Institute will offer a master class entitled «El poder de la poesía».

The Faculty of Philology and Communication will hold on Wednesday, October 2, the opening ceremony of the academic year 2024-2025. The meeting, which will take place in the Aula Magna of the University of Barcelona from 12 noon, will be attended by the professor of Spanish Literature, poet and director of the Cervantes Institute, Luis García Montero, who will give the conference «The power of poetry». The appointment to welcome the new academic year that has just begun will be attended by the rector of the University of Barcelona, ​​Joan Guàrdia, the dean of the Faculty, Javier Velaza, and the professor of Spanish Literature, Marisa Sotelo, among other attendees.

Luis García Montero (Granada, 1958) is a poet and professor of Spanish Literature at the University of Granada. He is the author of eleven books of poetry and several essays. He received the Adonais Prize in 1982 for El jardín extranjero, the Loewe Prize in 1993 and the National Prize for Literature in 1994 for Habitaciones separadas. In 2003, with La intimidad de la serpiente, he was awarded the National Critics' Prize. Since 2018 he has been director of the Cervantes Institute.