Book with ¨the voices that count¨

The University of Azuay (UDA), through its Publishing House, presented the book ¨The voices that count¨, written by Juan Carlos Astudillo, former student of the UDA, writer with a valuable production in the fields of poetry, communication, photography and university teaching.

It is a compilation of his interviews, published in the newspaper "El Mercurio", with various personalities of the cultural work of the city, interlocutors linked to university teaching, the teaching profession in its broad conception and its intellectual and artistic work, in accordance with the tradition of university city, artistic and literary city, conventual and bohemian, intercultural and cosmopolitan, which, among other qualities, define the profile of the Cultural Heritage city of Humanity. These interviews become a testimony of Cuenca's thought and cultural development in the second half of the XNUMXth century and the beginning of the new millennium, a document that provides elements when writing or rewriting the true or the new history of the city. Most of those interviewed are multifaceted creators: poets, novelists, art critics, historians, researchers and teachers: María Rosa Crespo, Jorge Dávila Vázquez, María Augusta Vintimilla, Alexandra Kennedy Troya, Oswaldo Encalada Vázquez, Manuel Villavicencio, Fredy Álvarez, Galo Alfredo Torres, Gabriela Eljuri, José Astudillo Banegas, Shaki Ananda and Lorena Tamariz; characters committed to the city, its people and its culture.

A pleasant, diverse and illustrative reading is offered by the pages of the book that will be presented in a virtual event, within the framework of the new “human agenda”, conditioned by the quarantine that cloisters us. As Nicanor Parra would say, a demonstration that culture is alive.