Rosario Raro's novel “Prohibida en Normandía” tells the story of journalist Martha Gellhorn



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## Rosario Raro's novel “Prohibida en Normandía” tells the story of journalist Martha Gellhorn The director of the Creative Writing Workshop at the UJI presented her latest novel at the Menador Cultural Space as part of the Book Day activities

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Rosario Raro, writer and director of the Creative Writing Workshop at the Universitat Jaume I, presented her latest novel, “Prohibida en Normandía”, at the Menador Cultural Space as part of the Book Day activities organised by the UJI Library.

In her latest novel, her fifth to be published by Planeta, the author rescues the heroism of the American writer and journalist Martha Gellhorn, the only woman among the more than 150,000 soldiers who took part in the Normandy Landing, but whose name has been erased from history. Gellhorn crossed the Channel as a stowaway, posing as a stretcher-bearer, because as a woman she was not accredited to cover the conflict. “I thought there was a story there and that there was no better date to bring these facts to light than the year of the Landing, since 2024 will be the 80th anniversary of the military action that condemned the war”, explains Raro.

In her speech, the writer stressed that Gellhorn “never wanted to be a footnote in anyone's life”, referring to her marriage to Ernest Hemingway, and therefore wanted to give her the prominence she deserved as a professional journalist, “a woman in the shadows who now, in an act of justice, occupies the foreground”, she pointed out.

The context of the novel is the Phantom Army, “the greatest magic trick in history, in which a Hollywood set was built in the south of England to make the Germans believe that the landing would take place through the Calais Pass”, she explained. However, the author insists that it is “an anti-war novel, like its protagonist and its author, in which this historical episode is told through real events and characters, as well as fictional ones; a story about truth and lies, in which nothing is as it seems”, says Raro.

More information on the author:

<https://www.rosarioraro.com/>

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