Edgar Ramírez, founder and host of Philatinos Radio, is working with a group of organizers to hold the first celebration of literature in Spanish in Philadelphia.

While working in the Mexican Air Force decades ago, Edgar Ramírez was working at a job where he said there “wasn’t much to do, except obey.”

Often bored, he began to read, secretly, while on his shift standing watch.

One day, he was reading Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez’s masterpiece, One Hundred Years of Solitude, when his boss caught him in the act. He asked Ramírez what he was doing, and though afraid he would be dismissed for being distracted while on the job, Ramirez admitted he was reading a novel.

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Filadelfia se inaugurará la primera feria del libro latinoamericano el 4 de octubre
Edgar Ramírez, fundador y locutor de Philatinos Radio, ha unido fuerzas con un grupo de organizadores para llevar a cabo la primera celebración de la literatura en español en Filadelfia.

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