Presentation of the book by Juan Cruz, Citizen Polanco. The events of a life, about the businessman who consolidated the most important media conglomerate in the Hispanic world. Mercedes Cabrera and Montserrat Domínguez will participate alongside the author. 

This multifaceted book is, in a way, the territory of memory left behind by Jesús Polanco. In it, Juan Cruz Ruiz sensitively portrays the personal, business, ideological, and familial facets of the businessman who built the most important Spanish-language media conglomerate. He paints a human portrait of an individual hardened by the struggle to navigate life against the current, leading companies whose success sparked envy and resentment. This is the man who was astonished when, in a Madrid courtroom, a judge showed him all the insults that had been hurled at him because of the events in his life.

Based on weekly conversations with him during 2003, and interviews with his collaborators, children and relatives, the author offers a complete mosaic of the life of Jesús Polanco, shedding light on key moments in the history of Spain, which Polanco witnessed when, after Franco's death, an uncertain idea of ​​democracy was emerging.

Juan Cruz Ruiz placeholder image (Puerto de la Cruz, Tenerife, 1948) holds a degree in Journalism from the University of La Laguna. He has had an extensive career as a journalist at the newspaper El País, where he has worked since its founding in 1976. From 1992 to 1998, he directed the publishing house Alfaguara. His extensive literary career is reflected in works such as Chronicle of nothingness shattered, Portrait of
Smoke, Sand Knife, The Oslo Dream, Age of Memory, Serena, The Territory of Memory, The photo of the Swedes, The beach from the horizon, Portrait of a naked man, I wish it were October, you asked me many times that he could tell you about those years, The Barefoot Boy y A stroke of lifeHis work as an editor has been reflected in Mixed egos (XXII Comillas Prize), Endangered Species, Jaime Salinas. The Editor's Craft, Beatriz de Moura. For the love of reading, Asking questions all my life, Literature that tells a story y First persons. He is also the author of Trip to the islands Canary IslandsIn 2000, he received the Canary Islands Literature Prize. He has also won the Benito Pérez Armas Prize, the Azorín Novel Prize, and the National Prize for Cultural Journalism. He was a schoolteacher, and now a public school in his neighborhood of La Vera, Tenerife, bears his name.