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The Board Carmen Conde-Antonio Oliver has organized, within the framework of the 50th anniversary of the death of the writer, a facsimile edition of one of the notebooks that would make up his "Book of Loas", which he wrote under the heteronym of Andrés Caballero, with the collaboration of his niece Teresina Valdivieso who illustrated them.

The presentation will take place on Friday, November 16, at 12 noon, at the Santa Florentina Market.

The event will be attended by the Councilor for Culture, David Martínez Noguera.

Of the ten manuscript notebooks, which are kept in the Archive of the Board, the "Fruit Loas" has been chosen, with the idea that the copies are distributed free through different fruit shops in the city, along with posters that reproduce some of these loas and the drawings that include.

In this way, the figure and the work of the Cartagena poet with the gift of these notebooks is brought closer to the citizens, as one more act of the Poetic Festival Deslinde, organized by the Department of Culture of the City of Cartagena, and which also includes the Prize International Poetry Antonio Oliver Belmás, convened by the Popular University of Cartagena.

At the end of the Civil War, Antonio Oliver spent a long time in seclusion at his sister's house in Murcia.

In that retreat he wrote what would later be his "Book of Loas", published in 1947. In them, one of the maxims of the Oliverians is reflected: "Praise, build, light".

Teresina Valdivieso, niece of the poet and disciple of the painter Luis Garay, visited his uncle, who asked him to make the illustrations as he wrote the poems.

He would say of the drawings: "the illustrations of the painter are worth more than the loas, everything is naive, young and charming".

Before this affirmation, she wrote in her diary: "What a barbarity!"

As a result of that complicity between the imprisoned poet and his niece, ten brown little books were born, of which the one containing the "Fruit Loas" has been chosen.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena