Oblit Baseiria

Invitado de Honor

She resides in Barcelona, where in 2004 she founded Casa Anita, a bookstore recognized for its focus on children’s, young adult literature, and illustration. She holds a degree in Philology from the University of Barcelona and has worked at Columna Edicions and Grupo Planeta as an editorial director.

She has served as a jury member for literary awards, been a guest lecturer in master’s programs and specialized forums, and collaborated with magazines and schools. She currently works as a curator of children’s publications for the Barcelona City Council and in 2024 received the Marta Mata Award for her contributions to promoting reading and children’s literature.

Other activities involving the participant:

Barcelona Llibres: a public-private collaborative publishing model

Santiago Mora

He is a sociologist by training with extensive experience as a bookseller, curator, and reading promoter, linked for over a decade to the book industry and literacy initiatives. He currently works at Babel Libros, where he serves as bookseller and sales director, while also managing curation and participation in national and international book fairs.

His work focuses on the ion, display, and recommendation of children’s and young adult books, as well as engaging diverse audiences in bookstores, schools, libraries, cultural centers, and social programs. He has collaborated on reading promotion projects with organizations such as Fundalectura and Corpoeducación, integrating his experience in the book world with cultural mediation processes.

In academia, he has taught courses including Latin American Sociological Thought, Epistemology, and Theories of Knowledge and Culture.

Judith Wilhelm

She is an editor and bookseller specializing in children’s and illustrated books. She studied Literature and Publishing at the University of Buenos Aires, where she lives and works. In 1997, she founded the itinerant book fair project El Libro de Arena, which, later in partnership with Walter Binder, traveled to schools, conferences, and public libraries across the country.

In 2005, they launched Calibroscopio, a publishing house dedicated to exploring new worlds through books, which received the Diploma of Merit 2014 from Fundación Kónex in the category of Editorial Work of the Decade, and has been a repeated finalist for the BOP Award at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair.

Throughout her career, she has been invited to participate in panels, seminars, and international book fairs to share her professional experience in editing and promoting children’s books. Today, Calibroscopio co-edits and distributes works from prestigious publishers in Latin America and Spain, while El Libro de Arena, recognized with the Pregonero Award for Bookstores by Fundación El Libro, remains a specialized bookstore visited daily by families, teachers, librarians, and researchers.

Pablo Larraguibel

He was born in Santiago de Chile. At the age of 12, his life took a dramatic turn when he and his family went into exile in Venezuela following the military coup against Chilean democracy. In Caracas, he studied Economics at the Central University, though he never worked professionally as an economist.

While still a student, he had the opportunity to edit an economic bulletin while working at a forecasting office—and he volunteered to take it on. From that moment, he has remained closely connected to the world of publications. Over the years, he has worked in newspapers, cultural and leisure magazines, book editing, and between 2002 and 2017, in radio production and hosting.

He has lived in Barcelona since 1998, and shortly after, in 2001, Ediciones Ekaré opened an office there. Since then, he has had the privilege of leading the new phase of this prestigious Caracas-born publisher, founded in 1978 and a pioneer in the production of picture books in Latin America. His work has led him to participate in international panels, talks, and conferences on children’s and young adult literature.