Dr. Mariàngela Vilallonga
Mariàngela Vilallonga, director of the Chair of Literary Heritage Maria Àngels Anglada-Carles Fages de Climent of the University of Girona, vice-president of the Institute of Catalan Studies and full academician of the Royal European Academy of Doctors-Barcelona 1914 (RAED), participated last February 28 at the closing ceremony of the Year Fages de Climent, held at the Athenaeum of Barcelona under the presidency of Laura Borràs, minister for Culture of the Catalan Government. The ceremony was also attended by Joan Elies Adell, director of the Institution of Catalan Letters, the body that has covered this tribute; Jordi Canet, curator of the Year Fages de Climent, and Climent Carles Fages, grandson of the writer worthy of the tribute.
Vilallonga praised the figure of the author and highlighted the work of the institutions that have worked to maintain both his memory and his work. “The legacy of Carles Fages de Climent, 50 years after his death, is solid and will continue to be so, not only because there are a number of people convinced that the task of studying and disseminating his work must be carried out, but that, in addition, this literary year that we closed has brought Fages to many people, but we cannot lower our guard, we must keep the heat of all this disclosure alive so that the seed, which we have planted together, will grow and bear more fruit”, said the academician in her intervention.
In this sense, Vilallonga said that the Chair of Literary Heritage Maria Àngels Anglada-Carles Fages de Climent will ensure to continue making it possible. And she pointed to an ambitious project: a Fages Space in the Climent house in Castelló d’Empúries that it becomes a centre for the study, interpretation and dissemination of his work. “If we were able to find so many alliances to commemorate a Fages year, we should have the will and capacity to start a project like this, so that nothing ends today, but it begins”, she concluded.
