Araya Goitia

Araya Goitia Leizaola (Caracas, 1990) studied Literature at the Central University of Venezuela and trained in mediation programs at the Banco del Libro. She has lived in Venezuela, Mexico, and Spain, collaborating on various projects for community reading and mediator training, including the Bibliotecas del Estado Miranda network, Fundación Fuller, LeerLees, IBBY México, Pez Linterna, and Asociación ¡Álbum! Since 2008, she has worked as an editor and rights coordinator for Ediciones Ekaré. Among the books she has edited are Los carpinchos by Alfredo Soderguit (White Ravens, NYPL Best Spanish-Language Children’s Books), La cerca by Alfredo Soderguit and Mariale Ariceta (Los Mejores del Banco del Libro), El berrinche de Moctezuma by Nuria Gómez Benet and Santiago Solís Montes de Oca (IBBY Honour List, Fundación Cuatrogatos Award), Arroz con leche by Paula Ortiz (Linternas y Bosques Selection), and the Biblioteca Ekaré Grandes Clásicos project, among others.

Fernando Diego García

Buenos Aires, 1960. He holds a degree in History and lived in Germany between 1993 and 2001, where he pursued doctoral studies in History and Political Science at the University of Heidelberg. In 1996, he began his career as an independent editor with the preparation of three volumes of illustrated biographies on major historical figures of Latin America. In 2001, he settled in Barcelona and, in 2004, together with Sebastián García Schnetzer, founded Libros del Zorro Rojo, a publishing house specializing in illustrated editions for readers of all ages. Just seven years later, in 2011, Spain’s Ministry of Culture awarded him the National Prize for the Best Cultural Publishing Work, and in 2015, the Bologna Children’s Book Fair recognized the company as Best European Publisher of Books for Children and Young People. He is currently the director of Libros del Zorro Rojo, whose main office is in Barcelona and which also has branches in Buenos Aires and Mexico.

Dolores Prades

Dolores Prades is a founding partner and director of the Instituto Emília, and publisher of Revista Emília and Cuadernos Emília. She holds a PhD in Economic History from USP and is a specialist in children's and young adult literature from the Autonomous University of Barcelona. She is also the director of the Emília Training Laboratory.

She served as curator and coordinator of the seminars Conversas ao Pé da Página (2011–2015) and Arte, Palavra e Leitura (2018, 2019, and 2020); as coordinator in Brazil for the Latin American and Caribbean Chair of Reading and Writing; and as a guest professor in the Master's program at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. She was also curator of FLUPP Parque (2014 and 2015).

Dolores was a member of the jury for the Hans Christian Andersen Award (2016), the Bologna Children’s Book Fair Award (2016), and the Chen Bochui Children’s Literature Award (2019). Since 2018, she has been a consultant for the Bologna Children’s Book Fair for Latin America and works in editorial consulting and fields related to reading and reader education. She is also a translator, researcher, and writer in the field of books and reading.

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José Diego González

José Diego González M. currently serves as the Technical Director of the Editorial Ecosystem area at Cerlalc, where he has been working since 2023. He holds a Master’s degree in Publishing from Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona and a degree in Literature from the University of the Andes, Bogotá. He is a cultural manager, editor, and researcher specializing in the study of the publishing market. Since 2020, he has represented Cerlalc on the Governing Board of the International ISBN Agency.

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