Carlos Herrero

I love to read and enjoy the good moments and other lives with a book in my hand. At home I have a library with more than 1,200 books that I take great care of and I consider it one of my most prized possessions. I am a bibliophile and a lover of traditional books, and I don’t think that the new technology can replace the magic of a printed book. I love to talk and I wouldn’t exchange a night out with friends having a coffee for any individual activity.

Though I wasn’t born in Alcalá de Henares, I live in the center of the city and I feel like I am an adopted Alcalá native. I love my city, walking through its streets, meeting friends in cafés and spending the afternoon talking about literature, reciting poetry, or simply having lively conversations with them. Even so, as Bunbury said, “foreigner I am” and happy I feel sitting in whatever place on Earth, if I find there those landscapes, those friends, and those feelings. I love to travel and go back time and time again to Paris, the city where I spent part of my time with a research scholarship, scouring the streets, making up its bridges and enjoying the pleasures of literature and history with Cortázar, Baudelaire, Rimbaud, and Verlaine as my fellow companions.