Carlos Zanón

Invitado de Honor

Carlos Zanón (Barcelona, 1966) is the author of several poetry collections, the short‑story volume Marley estaba muerto (Marley Was Dead); the chronicle volume Cien formas de romper un glaciar (One Hundred Ways to Break a Glacier) (Salamandra, 2023) and the novel, Nadie ama a un hombre bueno (Nobody Loves a Good Man); Tarde, mal y nunca (Late, Bad and Never) (Salamandra, 2019), winner of the Brigada 21 Prize for Best First Novel of the Year; No llames a casa (Don’t Call Home), winner of the Valencia Negra Prize for Best Noir Novel of the Year; Yo fui Johnny Thunders (I Was Johnny Thunders) (Salamandra, 2023), recipient of the Salamanca Negra, Novelpol and Dashiell Hammett Prizes at the Gijón Semana Negra Festival; Taxi (Salamandra, 2017); and Love Song (Salamandra, 2022). In 2019, he published Problemas de identidad (Identity Problems), a continuation of the Carvalho detective series. His narrative work has been translated into US English, German, French, Dutch, Greek and Italian. He also contributes as an essayist and critic to newspapers, magazines and cultural supplements, and since 2017 he has served as the curator of the BCNegra literary festival.

Other activities involving the participant:

(Literally) killers in Barcelona
Perreo, electro, and punk in literature

Álvaro Colomer

Invitado de Honor

Writer and journalist. He is the author of a trilogy on the death of the city – La calle de los suicidios (Suicide Street) (Círculo de Lectores, 2000), Mimodrama de una ciudad muerta (Mimodrama of a Dead City) (Siruela, 2004) and Los bosques de Upsala (The Forests of Uppsala) (Alfaguara, 2009) – as well as Aunque caminen por el valle de la muerte (Even Though They Walk Through the Valley of Death) (Random House, 2017), a novel based on real events which reconstructs the Battle of Najaf (Iraq). He has also published the non-fiction works Se alquila una mujer (Woman for Hire) (MR, 2002) and Guardianes de la memoria (Guardians of Memory) (MR, 2008; Fórcola, 2020), a travel book that earned him the International Award for Excellence in Journalism. He is also the author of books for children and young adults.
After three decades contributing to a range of media outlets, he is now editorial coordinator at Zenda magazine, a regular contributor to the ‘Cultura/s’ supplement (La Vanguardia) and a frequent guest on the radio programme A vivir (Cadena Ser). He also teaches in the Master’s in Publishing at the UPF School of Management, among other roles.
 

Other activities involving the participant:

Writing to acknowledge 50 years of loyalty
Barcelona today: a transformation
Learn how to write
Sustainable narratives
The seduction of historical figures
Tribute to Ana María Matute. Grand literature
(Literally) killers in Barcelona
From where one writes
Literary agencies in Barcelona