Joan Fallon
Welcome to my web page
  • ABOUT
  • Author
  • The al-Andalus Series
  • News
  • Blog
  • THE CITY OF DREAMS
  • Contact
  • TRANSLATED VERSIONS
  • Privacy

BIBLIOTECA NORDICA "Open Doors" week

18/10/2012

12 Comments

 
Picture
I've always loved libraries.  I was five when my parents enrolled me in the local library in Felixstowe and for the next ten years it was my favourite place.  I still remember that barely contained excitement each time I walked home with my three new library books in my arms (three was the maximum the librarian would allow me).  I couldn't wait to start reading them.  As the years passed I moved from the children's section, where I had devoured everything from CS Lewis to Enid Blyton, to the adult section and discovered a whole new world of authors:  Ray Bradbury, John Steinbeck, Hemingway.  
So when Marja Tähtinen, of the Biblioteca Nordica in Fuengirola asked me to speak to a group of library users at their  Open Doors week, I was delighted to accept.  In these days of shrinking library readership and the inevitable closure of many of our beloved libraries, I was only too happy to support them.   The Biblioteca Nordica, the brain-child of Marja herself, is dedicated to books written in Finnish, Danish, Swedish and Norwegian.  It is part of the municipal library in Los Boliches, Fuengirola,  where there is an excellent collection of books in English and Spanish.
There was a small, but enthusiastic, turnout to listen first to Raija Oranen, a Finnish author, who spoke in Finnish, of which I understood not a word, then to me.  Luckily the Finns are excellent at other languages and I was able to speak in English.  I was interviewed by another local writer, JG Harlond author of the best-selling The Chosen Man.  If Jane decides to give up writing I think she should turn her hand to being a professional interviewer.  She has an excellent way of drawing things out of you.
 The Open Doors week continues until 19th October with a variety of activities.  It's worth popping in, if only to meet the effervescent Marja Tähtinen (pictured on the left).

Picture
12 Comments

    Author

    Joan Fallon is a writer and novelist living in Spain.

    Archives

    October 2019
    June 2019
    April 2019
    January 2019
    November 2018
    August 2018
    July 2018
    June 2018
    May 2018
    April 2018
    March 2018
    December 2017
    November 2017
    September 2017
    July 2017
    June 2017
    April 2017
    March 2017
    February 2017
    January 2017
    December 2016
    November 2016
    August 2016
    May 2016
    April 2016
    March 2016
    February 2016
    January 2016
    December 2015
    November 2015
    October 2015
    July 2015
    March 2015
    February 2015
    January 2015
    November 2014
    October 2014
    September 2014
    August 2014
    July 2014
    June 2014
    May 2014
    April 2014
    March 2014
    February 2014
    January 2014
    December 2013
    October 2013
    September 2013
    June 2013
    January 2013
    October 2012
    August 2012
    July 2012
    June 2012
    May 2012
    April 2012
    March 2012

    Categories

    All
    Abd Al Rahman III
    Albarino
    Al-Hakam II
    Amy Fitzpatrick
    And Al-Rahman III
    Andalusia
    Ann Victoria Roberts
    Australia
    Autobiography
    Bell Book & Candle
    Biblioteca Nordica
    Biography
    Blitz
    Blog Tour
    Book Clubs
    Books
    Cambados
    Camino De Santiago
    Canterbury Tales
    Cape Torment
    Captain Smith
    Cathedral Of Santiago De Compostela
    Celebrity Books
    Child Migrants
    Christmas
    Compostela
    Cooking
    Cornish Pasties
    Costa Del Sol
    Costa Women
    Crime Thrillers
    Daughters Of Spain
    David Lean's Dedicated Maniac
    DI Paolo Storey
    Editing
    Ernest Hemingway
    FINCA DEL NIÑO
    Frances Di Plino
    Free Kindle Books
    Galicia
    Historical Fiction
    Historical Novel Society
    Holiday Reads
    Http://larosilla.info/
    International Women's Day
    J G Harlond
    Jg Harlond
    Karen Mcmahon
    Literature
    Local Television On Costa Del Sol
    Lorraine Mace
    Madinat Al Zahra
    Madinat Al-Zahra
    Malaga
    Margaret Humphreys
    Memory Keepers Workshop49d8720cd8
    Mijas 340 Television
    Mijas International
    Moors In Spain
    Novels
    Paul Anthony
    Pilgrimage
    Police Anthology
    Publishers
    Publishing Deals
    Punctuation
    Raija Oranen
    Santiago Tales
    Sea Evacuees
    Self Publishing
    Self-publishing
    Spain
    Spanish Civil War
    Spanish Lavender
    St James
    The Chosen Man
    The Empress Emerald
    The Hemingway Project
    The Master's Tale
    The Shining City
    The Way Of St James
    Titanic
    True Story
    Umayyads
    Uncuffed
    Vlad The Inhaler
    World War Ii
    Writing
    Writing Courses
    Writing Holiday
    Writing Workshops

    RSS Feed

Proudly powered by Weebly