Luciany Aparecida

(Brazil, 1982)

She was born in Bahia, in Vale do Jiquiriçá. She is a professor, researcher, writer of novels, short stories, dramatizations and poems, as well as a doctor of literature from the Federal University of Paraíba (UFPB). In the field of literary criticism, the author's studies deal with literary theory, contemporary literature, the interface between history, memory, ancestry, afro-diaspora, immigration, nation and performances.
She is the author of Mata Doce, winning novel of the São Paulo Literature Prize 2024, finalist of the Jabuti Prize and semifinalist of the Oceans Prize 2024. She also wrote Macala and Joanna Mina. She has published short stories and novellas under the pseudonym Ruth Ducaso.

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São Paulo Prize for Literature
Destinação Brazil

Diego Recoba

(Montevideo, 1981) 

Es cofundador de la editorial popular La Propia Cartonera. Publicó, entre otros, el libro de poesía Instituciones personales; el libro de crónicas Hasta Borinquen y las novelas Locas pasiones, Sobredosis, El oso, Antártida y sus galaxias y El cielo visible. La novela El cielo visible recibió el Premio Bartolomé Hidalgo 2024 y el Premio Nacional de Literatura de Uruguay 2024, y fue seleccionada en el programa Mapa de las Lenguas de Penguin Random House.
 

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Uruguayan fiction territories from Onetti’s Santa María

Vivian Lavín

(Santiago de Chile, 1967) is a journalist with extensive experience in the cultural field. Since 2001, she has hosted the radio program Vuelan las Plumas on Radio Universidad de Chile. She is the author of three books of interviews with Chilean and Latin American writers and intellectuals, and co-author of the illustrated book on botany Viaje Natural. An Encounter Between Art and Science (VLP Ediciones, 2021). In Spain, she published the essay Pisaremos las calles nuevamente (Cuatro Lunas, 2023), based on the testimonies of three former political prisoners from the Chilean dictatorship.

In 2018, she founded the literary agency VLP Agency, representing authors and publishers from Latin America and Spain, becoming a pioneer in the internationalization of Chilean books in the Asia-Pacific region, with a focus on Korea and China. She is a member of the Observatory of Books and Reading and served as president of the Society of Literary Rights (SADEL) from 2021 to 2025.

She has been recognized by the Society of Chilean Writers, the Chilean Book Chamber, awarded the Journalistic Excellence Prize for Pobre el que no cambia de mirada, and the Alejandro Silva de la Fuente Prize from the Chilean Academy of Language, among other distinctions.

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From manuscript to readers: the role of literary agents in children’s and young adult literature
Are generative artificial intelligences tools or competition for creative individuals?