The brain, creativity and local noir genre, protagonists of Granada Noir

The ninth edition of Granada Noir, a cultural festival sponsored by Cervezas Alhambra, continues on Friday, November 3 with a day to justify the literary and scientific talent of Granada where the absolute protagonist corresponds to the writers and professors who write, publish, research and hold courses in Granada .

The day starts at 12 am at the Mind, Brain and Behavior Research Center (CIMCYC), on the Cartuja campus of UGR with a panel discussion entitled ‘Creativity, Psychology and the Brain’.

Writer and essayist Clara Peñalver and CIMCYC professors and scholars María Teresa Bajo and Juan Lupiáñez will participate.

CIMCYC is a UGR center dedicated to the study of the brain, mind and individual, group and social behaviour, using classical methods and innovative methodologies. It is dedicated to outstanding research in psychology and related scientific fields.

It is a training and professional development environment for more than 250 people, integrated and linked to regional, national and international research centers and groups.

For her part, Clara Peñalver is a writer and creative consultant. She was born in Seville on April 23, 1983 and considers herself very lucky to celebrate her birthday on the day of the book. She has a degree in biology from the University of Granada, the city where she lives and which she professes to be passionately in love with.

The most literary Granada Noir

The Granada Noir afternoon session will start at 18:00 at the Librería Picasso with a round table dedicated to Granada crime and crime stories in which Andrea Ambel, author of ‘Punto dead’, will participate; Nicolás Díez, author of «Three shades of blue» and José Piqueras, winner of the Black Mountain Bossost crime fiction award with his novel «Paths behind the fog».

The conversation will be moderated by Jesús Lens, director of Granada Noir and will discuss the importance of Granada as a setting for a crime story, the plot possibilities offered by the different landscapes of the province and Granada as a land that inspires creativity. .

Special sessions Alhambra beer

At 20:00, in the Generalife room of the Saray Hotel, the second special meeting of the Alhambra beer will be held, where the novelist and poet Hermógenes Patón will be present. His lecture, ‘Brot mykurs’, will be based on poems and fragments of a black-criminal nature.

To accompany the beer, José Miguel Magín, chef of Hotel Saray and Gastrobar Qübba, has prepared a special tapa: A sigh between a duel and a tapa.

Hermógenes Patón (1970) is a Catalan writer by birth, he grew up in Castilla-La Mancha and matured as a writer in Andalusia, specifically in Granada. Surprisingly, discovering himself writing a novel, which he had kept on hold for a long time, became a real pleasure. His characters practically ran over him, possessed and guided him every night as he wrote. Patón is also a professor of language and literature at IES Francisco Ayala in Granada.

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