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Colección Obra Fundamental
The Colección Obra Fundamental [Fundamental Works Collection] resurrects contemporary Spanish-language authors whose work has been largely forgotten, for one reason or another, and is now difficult to find in print.
In 2012 it was joined by the Cuadernos de Obra Fundamental, compilations of short texts in any genre that show a more personal side of these authors.
To increase the circulation of its literary catalogue, the Foundation turns its published titles into e-books and audiobooks that are available in major online libraries, book retailers and distribution platforms.
The books are accompanied by interviews with the anthologists and readings or dramatizations of excerpts in podcast or videocast format. Audio recordings are available on the foundation’s website and the main audio streaming platforms.
Álvaro Cunqueiro
The Foundation released a new edition of this substantial compilation of widely varied stories and articles written by Álvaro Cunqueiro. It includes six unpublished stories that appeared in Catolicismo magazine between 1945 and 1946 and were discovered shortly before the first edition came out in 2012.
Xosé Antonio López Silva, professor of Latin at the secondary level, selected the contents of this edition and wrote the introductory essay, while the foreword was penned by the writer, teacher and politician César Antonio Molina.
This new edition has been enriched by seven audio dramas of the stories and articles included in the volume and a conversation with César Antonio Molina.
Ernesto Cardenal
This book is a compilation of prose by the writer, poet, sculptor and theologian Ernesto Cardenal, consisting of autobiographical texts, one short story and brief essays on spirituality, art, literature and ecology.
It features a foreword by Luce López-Baralt, a writer and professor of Literature at the University of Puerto Rico, and an introduction by Juan Carlos Moreno-Arrones, a researcher at Instituto Cervantes in Beijing with a PhD in Spanish from the University of Granada.
Complementary materials include a podcast with Cardenal's texts set to music by Niño de Elche and interviews with this multidisciplinary artist and Luce López-Baralt.
Vicente Fatone
This volume brings together all the most important essays of Argentine philosopher Vicente Fatone, providing insight into his main strands of thought, as well as samples of his journalistic writings, including his contributions to Sur magazine, founded by Victoria Ocampo.
An expert on the ancient knowledge of India and on Western mysticism, existentialism and logic, Fatone’s work has been revived by the philosopher, astrophysicist and essayist Juan Arnau.
The book includes a QR code that links to a video in which Arnau helps us to decipher Fatone’s work.
CartasVivas
Fundación Banco Santander and the University of Exeter support this audiovisual initiative to reclaim the legacy of women whose roles in the cultural, political and social life of the twentieth century have been forgotten.
CartasVivas, which means “living letters”, is a free online library of short films in which different actresses give dramatized readings based on the testimonies of the women they are embodying. These readings are scripted and directed by Nuria Capdevila-Argüelles, professor in Hispanic Studies and Gender Studies, and students from the University of Exeter also participate in their production.
In the three new “living letters” filmed in 2025, Ascensión López, Maite Jiménez and Montserrat Roig de Puig played the writers María Campo Alange (María Laffitte), Consuelo Berges and Lilí Álvarez, respectively. Videos of all shorts made since the project began in 2019 are available on the website cartasvivas.org.
Literary seminar at the UIMP
On 17 July, Fundación Banco Santander and Fundación Chile-España teamed up to organize a literary seminar dedicated to Gabriela Mistral at the Menéndez Pelayo International University in Santander.
The event, held to commemorate the Chilean poet’s Nobel Prize in 1945, was attended by writers, researchers, journalists and scholars with expert knowledge of her life and work.
Participants explored her various facets—teacher, writer, diplomat and advocate for women's rights—in two lectures and three round-table discussions, and attended an evening recitation of some of the most iconic verses of her poetic career.