Dr. Jordi Martí
Jordi Martí, Professor of Financial Economics and Accounting at the University of Barcelona, Director of the Master’s Degree in Non-Financial Information Assurance at the same university, and Numerary Member and member of the Governing Board of the Royal European Academy of Doctors (READ), presented and moderated on 29 May one of the most eagerly awaited sessions of the current edition of the Cornellà Creació Fòrum, held in the Catalan town of Cornellà de Llobregat with the collaboration of the Royal Academy. Specifically, it was a meeting between Javier Cercas, one of today’s Spanish novelists with the greatest international profile, and the journalist Àlex Sàlmon, director of the literary supplement “Abril”, published by Prensa Ibérica and distributed with “El Periódico de Catalunya”, which also co-organised this event. The meeting took place at the Cornellà Auditorium before more than one hundred businesspeople and representatives of the economic fabric of the Barcelona metropolitan area.
The transformative power of culture was the main focus of the conversation, which offered an opportunity to review Cercas’s literary career, marked by the exploration of complex episodes in recent history. The author defined his works as “true stories”, a narrative formula that combines literature and journalistic research. His work, translated into more than thirty languages, has received numerous national and international awards. His latest book, “El periódico de la democracia”, published this May, traces the last fifty years of Spanish history to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of the newspaper “El País”. Àlex Sàlmon, for his part, a journalist and writer with an extensive career in the press, radio and television, also addressed current affairs and reflected on the evolution of Catalan politics with the pro-independence process as a backdrop. Sàlmon is the author of the book “L’enigma Ciutadans”, an analysis of the origins and evolution of the party Ciudadanos.
Mr Javier Cercas
The Cornellà Creació Fòrum now takes its leave until after the summer. The series will resume its activities on 18 September with a new meeting, this time between actor Abel Folk and playwright Emma Riverola. The programme will continue on 23 October with the participation of the writer Elvira Lindo and Judit Carrera, Director of the Centre for Contemporary Culture of Barcelona. The final event of the 2026 edition will take place on 27 November and will bring together the actress Assumpta Serna and the actor Luis Zahera. This year has already seen a session featuring the filmmaker Isabel Coixet and a meeting between the screenwriter, producer and film director Mabel Lozano and the communicator, writer and journalist Marta Peirona.
Devoted in this edition to culture in its broadest sense, the Cornellà Creació Fòrum has now reached its 100th event, with more than 140 speakers and some 15,000 attendees over 16 editions, during which it has mainly addressed issues related to economics, democracy, the environment, innovation, communication, society and business, with the collaboration of various leading firms and the scientific endorsement of the READ.
