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The "Towers Literary Association" in collaboration with the Department of Culture Cotillas Towers, rendered on the night of Friday 24 January a warm tribute to the poet Salvador Sandoval Torreño occasion of his 86th birthday.
With the assistance of the local mayor, Domingo Coronado, his Councillor for Culture, Gloria Fernandez, and this act has become tradition in the town-was held at the Plenary Hall of the local council and was free admission.
In the evening the members of the association staged a varied Torrena reading Sandoval's work, as well as some other piece written specifically for the event.
In addition, the panochista Fernando González Marquina, "Nando er Tristan", participated also offering attendees a folk verse in the language of our region on Torreño popular poet.
And act more emotional note, it should be noted that two young grandchildren Salvador Sandoval also read poems written by his grandfather, which also closed the evening by reciting his verses.
Master of letters
Sandoval, honorary member of the Association of Writers of the Region of Murcia (AERMU), was born in the district of the pulpit Torrena on January 22, 1928.
Studied Teaching and has taught Elementary in Tarragona, Lleida, Lorca and Fortuna Cotillas Towers (former director of schools "Cervantes" and "Valentine Buendia" in the town and retired in 1992).
He was appointed Justice of the Peace in his hometown between 1985 and 1989, and for nearly 25 years was a correspondent for the newspaper "The Truth".
This writer and Torreño teacher gives his name since 1995 and the first institute Cotillas Towers and is in possession of the "Cross of the Civil Order of Alfonso X the Wise" from 1996, an award that recognizes his extensive and remarkable literary career.
In addition, Sandoval is a founding member and president of the Literary Association "Las Torres" and favorite son of his locality.
The poet is loved and respected both within and outside the municipality, for the literary quality and importance of his work, which include titles such as "go down the valley" prize "Pole of Medina" - "River Water" "Cornfields and Retamas" prize "Albacara Poetry" - "Autumn Sun" Sonata in G Major "finalist" Polo de Medina "- or" A sealed world. "
Source: Ayuntamiento de Las Torres de Cotillas
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