Paca Flores

Invitado de Honor

She holds a degree in Journalism. In 2006, she, along with Julián Rodríguez, launched the independent publishing house Periférica, which has over three hundred titles in its catalog and has been operating for 18 years.

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Panel 4: Books about Books and Bookstores: Fashion? Business? Romanticism for Book Lovers? Poetic Justice?

Lola Larumbe

Invitado de Honor

A bookseller with a background in biological sciences, she began her journey in the world of books in 1980 at the Rafael Alberti bookstore in Madrid, where she is currently responsible and director. In 2005, she was awarded the V Premio Librero Cultural by the Ministry of Culture and the Confederación Española de Gremios y Asociaciones de Libreros (CEGAL) for her project Encuentros en Alberti. This initiative has transformed the Rafael Alberti bookstore into one of Madrid’s cultural landmarks, hosting major figures in Spanish and Latin American literature as well as emerging writers and creators over the years.

She views the bookstore as a vital space in the city and neighborhood, a cultural echo chamber and meeting place, and advocates for the role of the bookseller in fostering enthusiasm for books and reading.

She has published Pasión de papel. Cuentos sobre el mundo del libro (2007), the preface to Mujeres y libros by Stefan Bollmann (2015), “Los lectores que conozco” in Elogio del libro (2016), and ¡A las librerías! (2016).

She collaborates with the Master's program in Publishing at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, the Complutense Summer School at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, and the Cultural Project Management course at La Fábrica. In 2022, she served as the literary director for the Festival Eñe in Madrid.

She has received the Premio Bibliodiversidad from the Asociación de Editores de Madrid, the Boixareu Ginesta Award for Bookseller of the Year 2019 from the Federación de Gremios de Editores de España, and the AMEIS de Plata 2023 from the Asociación de Escritoras e Ilustradoras.

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Panel 6: Of Ants and Titans: Selling Books in Our Language(s): Nuances and Perspectives. Publishers

Alejandro Katz

He holds a degree in Language and Literature from UNAM and completed postgraduate studies in Administration at the Di Tella University in Buenos Aires. For nearly twenty years, he directed the Argentine branch of the Fondo de Cultura Económica (FCE) and served as an essay editor for the organization. In 2006, he founded Katz Editores, a publishing house specializing in humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences, with offices in Buenos Aires and Madrid. A translator and essayist, he regularly publishes articles in major media outlets across Argentina, Latin America, and Spain. In 2020, he won the first prize in the essay competition organized by the National Academy of Political Sciences of Argentina. He is also a Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters of the French Republic.

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Panel 6: Of Ants and Titans: Selling Books in Our Language(s): Nuances and Perspectives. Publishers

María Mur Dean

Invitado de Honor

She has been working at the independent publishing and cultural space consonni since 1999. Consonni, which has been producing and editing critical culture since 1996, is written in lowercase and is a mutant, androgynous, and polycephalous entity, with feminism and listening as its "superpowers." In addition, Mur uses written, spoken, or even silenced words in various formats, publishing in different media, and contributing to debates on cultural policies, feminism, and the potential of culture to create a public sphere.
www.consonni.org

Dores Tembrás

Invitado de Honor

(Bergondiño, La Coruña, 1979) holds a degree in Spanish Philology, completed in 2001, and specializes in Hispanic American literature. In 2008, after years of research and various stays in Sweden, Madrid, and Buenos Aires, she defended her doctoral thesis: La obra poética de Alejandra Pizarnik. Arquitectura de un desencuentro (The Poetic Work of Alejandra Pizarnik. Architecture of a Disencounter).

In 2009, she published her first poetry collection, O pouso do fume (The Landing of Smoke). Since then, her poetic works have included Esquiagrafías, Diapositivas a clareo, Silabario, and Opium. In 2016, she published the pamphlet Auga a través (Water Through), and in 2023, the poetry collection Enxertos (Grafts). Her first children’s poetry book, O peizoque Roque, was released in 2012.

In 2013, she won the Premio de Poesía Concello de Carral with her work Cronoloxía da urxencia (Chronology of Urgency). Her texts have been translated into various languages (Basque, Catalan, Spanish, English, German, Ukrainian, Croatian, Bulgarian, and Estonian) and included in magazines, collective works, and international anthologies.

Her poetic work is characterized by brevity and precision. Ancestry, memory, childhood, and the connection to the rural environment shape a space where the poetic self delves into language, giving silence a place of preference.

In 2014, she co-founded the cultural project Apiario with fellow writer Antía Otero. Apiario focuses on two main areas: a school dedicated to training, offering creative and poetic writing courses, and another area dedicated to publishing. It is an independent project that emphasizes the importance of the book as an object. Its catalog, focused on poetry, aims to give each original work individual identity, with the design of each book tailored to its specific needs. Over the past decade, Apiario has received recognition and awards highlighting the excellence of its editorial work.
www.dorestembras.com
www.apiario.eu

Munts Brunet Navarro

Invitado de Honor

(Sabadell, 1987), a feminist and graduate in Fine Arts, is captivated by the capacity of everyday and collective practices to impact production methods as well as the direction of projects and editions. She has been a driving force behind multiple neighborhood collaborative projects, which operate from a self-managed model focused on sovereignty and feminism. Since 2010, she has been part of the editorial and cultural space consonni, which has been producing and editing critical culture since 1996. Consonni is written in lowercase and is a mutant, androgynous, polycephalous entity, with feminism and listening as its superpowers.
www.consonni.org

Antía Otero

Invitado de Honor

(A Estrada, 1982) holds a degree in Art History from the University of Santiago de Compostela and has received academic training in the fields of performing arts and cinema. She works between the worlds of writing and publishing.

Since 2014, she has co-directed the cultural project, writing school, and independent publishing house Apiario, alongside poet Dores Tembrás. Over the years, Apiario has been recognized by readers and critics as one of the leading Galician publishers, noted for both the artisanal care in the creation processes and the excellence in editing. The originality of the volumes in their catalog has earned them multiple accolades.

As a poet, she has published individual poetry collections including O Son da Xordeira (2003, Espiral Maior), Retrovisor (2010, Edicións Xerais; finalist for the Premios AELG), and O cuarto das abellas (2016, Edicións Xerais; Award for Best Book of Poetry at the II Gala do Libro Galego). Her most recent collection, Barroco (2022, Apiario), was awarded twice at the Premios Follas Novas do Libro Galego in the categories of Book of Poetry and Edition. In 2017, she published O branco non pinta! (Apiario), her first foray into children’s literature, which was selected by the Spanish Organization for Children’s and Young Adult Books (OEPLI) for its catalog that same year.

Her poetic work seeks the gaps of what cannot be seen at first glance, the light and its frames, the possibilities of the ephemeral and memory, the challenging dialogue between image and word, the tension of the domestic, and the margins of history.

Her work can be found in various magazines (Dorna, Olga, Grotta, Ínsula), collective works, and anthologies.

Her texts have been set to music by Galician musical bands such as Chicharrón, Fanny & Alexander, Xosé Manuel Budiño, and Guadi Galego.