Carlos Velez, took literature to television – HOME

When finished Encounters with the arts and letters, in 1982, after six years in the second strand of Spanish TV, Rafael Conte COUNTRY published in an article that now might be the elegy own director of that space, Carlos Velez, who died last October 29 in Madrid.

Encounters with the letters (as it was called at first) was abruptly removed from the grill the only tele then; was the focus of literary and artistic lights of that pivotal moment in recent Spanish history, and was mainly due to the patience, intelligence and weighting Carlos Velez. Never later there was a space of its kind, because I may never later was so excited meeting in Spain, for literature and for anything.

A Conte, who was the literary critic of this newspaper, and Culture editor for some years, that decision of the heads of TVE to stop broadcasting the program Velez (and many more) filled him with indignation. He explained that in this elegy now do justice to his friend: “ Meetings has fought against all odds and can present, and existence abruptly interrupted, a solid and positive results.” “He’s dead,” said Conte, “a good cultural program, a television that does not go more than enough of them. He died a great program required. Beyond managers ‘ Headed journal Accent’

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Velez was born in Leon; as Conte, now deceased also transited areas of Phalangist SEU, but as Ridruejo and others, was able to surpass the master lines of that movement and made room in its different cultural adventures to people of all backgrounds. He was director of Accent magazine essential that story; appeared in the late fifties and had as their own currency in the same Velez magazine was open “to all Spanish writers and artists.” There were, drawing, and charging for their drawings, Rafael Canogar, Andreu Alfaro, Team 57, Werba … Accent belongs to the government and the thundering minister of all, Manuel Fraga Iribarne, was his boss. One day Fraga Velez threatened with the usual cry: I was going to throw out the window. In this case, it was for publishing a poem by Apollinaire, who Galician considered a communist revolutionary.

Meetings Velez “continued excellence, independence and objectivity,” said Conte ; “Became simply culture, no adjectives.” And, like accent, he sought to surround himself with young or mature, mostly liberals of that time, he helped keep open the antennas. In the list of his collaborators were Isaac Montero, Daniel Sueiro, Paloma Chamorro, Juan Antonio Mendez, Fernando Sanchez Drago … In other periods were also Esther Benitez, Miguel Bilbatua, Antonio Castro, José Luis Jover, Andrew Trapiello Jesus … And Torbado the lyrics screen went Caballero Bonald, José-Miguel Ullán, José María Guelbenzu, Carmen Martín Gaite, Marcos-Ricardo Barnatán, Pepe Esteban, Juan Benet, Fernando Arrabal, Leonardo Sciascia, Juan Goytisolo … It was a natural channel for what was then published and read. It was just about books and culture and lasted an hour and a half each week. In this way of doing television also made him his elegy Rafael Conte. Dating remembered the same Conte appeared on screen the same week that HOME was born.

Velez was born in Leon on July 5, 1930. Married to Mary Louise Martin, leaves two children, Lea, author and screenwriter, and Marco, air traffic controller.