‘’María Valero: behind a face, a voice’’ by Josefa Bracero Torres, which publishes Ediciones en Vivo, will be presented, on the occasion of the 97th anniversary of the Cuban Radio, on Friday, August 23, at four in the afternoon, in the Fayad Jamís Bookstore, on Obispo Street 261 between Cuba and Aguiar streets, in the Historic Center of Havana.
In this meeting, its author, Josefa Bracero Torres, 2004 National Radio Award, will talk with the journalist and critic Fernando Rodríguez Sosa about this book, which proposes a documented approach to the life and work of the actress and anti-fascist fighter María Valero, one of the emblematic voices of Cuban radio in the first decades of the twentieth century.
According to what is written in the preface to the volume by Professor Luis David Díaz Cuervo, «the work is based on a thorough inquiry and the ordering of not scarce sources, voice files, reports in magazines and newspapers of the time, published books whose authors and / or witnesses reveal fragments, passages and judgments (some little known) that, together, they make possible not a new vision about the actress María Valero, but a better one - and who knows if also new - approach of the person who was in it ».
Prestigious historian of Cuban radio and television, Josefa Bracero Torres is the author of a documented bibliography that includes, among other titles ‘’Rostros que se escuchan’’, ‘’Otros rostros que se escuchan’’, ‘’Silencio…se escucha’’, ‘’Estos rostros que se escuchan’’, ‘’Mujeres locutoras en Cuba’’ and ‘’Television: angel or devil?’’.
Graduated in Journalism from Universidad de Oriente, Bracero Torres developed for more than four decades an active professional life in Cuban broadcasting, a medium in which she held high responsibilities, including the Provincial Directorate of Radio and Television in Camagüey and the Vice Presidency for Radio in the Cuban Institute of Radio and Television (ICRT).
There are numerous awards received for his professional work, in competitions such as the National Radio Festival, the Caracol Prize, the July 26 Contest, the Moscow Radio Contest and the Caribbean Broadcasting Union Prize.
Translated by Susel Esquivel
