Join us on Monday, November 17th and Tuesday November 18th for a conversation with acclaimed author of cultural biographies, Spanish journalist, and broadcaster, Francisco Reyero.
Francisco "Paco" Reyero is a Spanish journalist and broadcaster, host of El Flexo (a cultural night program aired on Canal Sur Radio) and author of acclaimed cultural biographies.
He has been working as a journalist in Spain for the last twenty eight years. Lately, he was appointed in the American West as a correspondent for Radio Nacional de España (RNE), searching cultural bonds and ties between Spain and the United States of America. In 2019 he published And Bernardo de Gálvez Entered Washington (Los Papeles del Sitio/Fundación Unicaja, English and Spanish version), an investigation about "The Little Known Hero". Gálvez, the Governor of Spanish Louisiana during the American Revolutionary War, was a key factor for the independence of the United States.
Reyero has published several successful works on American legends who had a pivotal relationship with Spain such as Sinatra: Nunca volveré a ese maldito país (Sinatra: I will Never Go Back to that Cursed Country, Lara Foundation / Planet, 2015), about the crooner's trips to Spain in pursuit of Ava Gardner during Franco's dictatorship and Clint Eastwood: Desde que mi nombre me defiende (Lara Foundation / Planeta, 2017), on how the Californian actor found success filming Spanish spaghetti westerns. Reyero admires old-fashioned journalists, those willing to mingle with life. He believes in jotting down handwritten notes on a pad and values those interviews made at hotel receptions or airport waiting rooms. He doubts that computers will ever substitute a friend's heart.
Sponsored by Spanish & Portuguese, The Leslie Center for Humanities, and La Casa.