Pedro Villarejo presents his new book ‘René en su laberinto’.

The event will be this Thursday, December 21, at 19 hours, in the auditorium of the Mirador del Carmen, with free admission. The priest and writer will be accompanied by the mayor of Estepona, José María García Urbano, and the poet Alejandro Simón Partal.

The City Council of Estepona informs that the priest and writer Pedro Villarejo will present his new book ‘René en su laberinto’ (Ediciones Algorfa, 2023). It will be at the Mirador del Carmen Cultural Center, this Thursday, December 21, at 19:00 hours, with free admission until full capacity is reached.

The work reflects a time of misery in Spain, where children were satisfied with anything to get by. This is the case of its protagonist, René, who symbolizes astonishment or perplexity without alarming mischief. “A boy who wants to make the smallest mistakes in his life by asking questions”, as the author describes.

Pedro Villarejo. Born in 1946 in the Cordovan town of Montoro, Villarejo was ordained a priest in 1974, after his 27th birthday. He has a degree in Ecclesiastical Sciences from the Faculty of Theology of Granada. He has carried out his pastoral work in Marbella, Cordoba, Seville, Avila and Argentina, where he lived for a long time. In addition, he was pastor of the church of St. Joseph of Estepona, in the church of the Virgin Mother of Nueva Andalucía, in Marbella, and is currently rector of the Church of the Holy Guardian Angel, in Nueva Andalucía, Marbella.

At the age of 27 he wrote his first work, El hombre y el silencio… todavía. Later, he published Mensaje de medianoche, Teresa y Juan de la Cruz: oraciones disimuladas, García Lorca en Buenos Aires. Una resurrección antes a la muerte, Luz de fragua and Dios mediante, among other books.

In 2007 he won the Ateneo de Valladolid Award with a historical novel about Fray Bartolomé de Carranza, an important 16th century Spanish Dominican and theologian. La luz mentida. Memoria y cárcel del Arzobispo Carranza is the work with which he obtained the recognition of the Castilian capital.