The Spanish poet presents in Mexico 'Un año y tres meses', the collection of poems that he published after the death of his wife, the novelist Almudena Grandes.

In November 2021, when Almudena Grandes died, the Spanish poet Luis García Montero deposited a copy of “Completamente viernes” at the grave of his wife. The collection of poems, from 1998, was a loving response to the second novel by Grandes, published in 1991, “Te llamaré Viernes.”  When the writer got cancer, the poet kept writing verses and when she died, he kept on writing. García Montero gathered these texts, corrected them, and published them in a book that closes the cycle, according to what he has said in several interviews. The poet presented “Un año y tres meses” this Tuesday in Mexico City.

“This book was a necessity for me. I had to write it to find meaning in a life that had become meaningless to me," said the poet, who is director of the Instituto Cervantes and writes for EL PAÍS. He was sitting in front of fifty people on the top floor of the España Cultural Center, with Mexico City in the background, when the sun was setting.

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