KristhianBooks

Es una lectora de 22 años que un día decidió compartir su amor por los libros en redes sociales bajo el nombre de @kristhianbooks. Cree firmemente que los libros pueden transformar vidas, porque un día salvaron la suya.

Kris estudia ciencias de la comunicación, y es una apasionada de las historias: le encanta leerlas, escucharlas y espera un día escribirlas. Además de los libros, también ama a los gatos y, muy en el fondo, siempre espera poder vivir dentro de uno de sus libros de fantasía.
 

Jimebookss

Es licenciada en derecho y de origen sinaloense. Desde pequeña le ha fascinado la forma en la que existe un mundo detrás de cada página, y ha encontrado en los libros un espacio seguro para habitarse, hacerse preguntas y sentirse acompañada. Con el tiempo comenzó a compartir su amor por la lectura en redes sociales, creando un rincón donde las historias y las emociones se cruzan. Además de leer, disfruta mucho pasar tiempo con sus seres queridos. Se ve inspirada por la música de Taylor Swift, ya que encuentra un valor en sus palabras, al igual que en los libros.

Mariana Booker

(Guadalajara, 1997)

Nació en Guadalajara, Jalisco. Es licenciada en comercio y negocios globales, pero actualmente se dedica a promover la literatura en México, y recientemente acaba de publicar su primera novela Hasta donde suene mi voz, con la Editorial Planeta.

Es la persona más feliz cuando tiene un libro en sus manos. Si hablas con ella, lo más probable es que esté disociada pensando en su próxima novela.
 

Patricia Benito

Invitado de Honor

I have lived in three cities, nine homes and some houses. I've fallen in love once. I've run down from a burning train and I've seen a bomb explode. I don't believe in things that last forever. Or yes, I don't know. Strawberries, with condensed milk. Every now and then I need to move things around, whether it's furniture, people or my whole life. If I don't travel, I can't breathe. I start wanting too fast and I stop wanting too slow. I can't remember the last time I fell asleep early. I measure time in half beers, and I don't make plans for more than half a beer. I cry at demonstrations when I hear Labordeta. I need you close, but not on top. I always go with the weakest. I can't imagine a world without cheese or chocolate. It's almost always better to give than to receive, and I'm not talking about sex; not just sex. The queen of my house is a lame cat that won't stop purring. Empathy should move the world, not just mine. 
If you've read this far, you can stay. 
 

Other activities involving the participant:

The Poetry Room

Jumko Ogata

Escritora, traductora y divulgadora del antirracismo. Originaria de Veracruz, es licenciada en Estudios Latinoamericanos por la UNAM. Ha sido publicada en la Revista de la Universidad, ha participado en la antología Tsunami 2 (Sexto Piso, 2020), así como en la colección Hijas de América Latina (HarperCollins, 2023) y Cabezas en la ventana. Antología de terror latinoamericano (Elefanta, 2024). Es autora de Mi pelo chino, un libro infantil bilingüe en español y mixteco con ilustraciones de Rey Pelcastre (Almadía, 2022). Es traductora de Hermanas del ñame. Mujeres negras y nuestra recuperación de bell hooks (U-tópicas Ediciones, 2024), así como de Experimentos en alegría (Co—Conspirator Press e Impresos México, 2023). Ha impartido talleres sobre antirracismo para Meta, Google, la Secretaría de Cultura y distintas organizaciones sin fines de lucro en México y Estados Unidos.

Other activities involving the participant:

Southern literature

Alba Muñoz

Invitado de Honor

Journalist and writer. She has worked as an independent reporter in various parts of the world, most notably the Balkans, the Middle East and Southeast Asia. From 2018 to 2019, she lived in South Africa, where she contributed to El País and 5W. For five years, she was a writer and editor at the online magazine PlayGround, specialising in digital journalism and feminism. She has also written for the BBC, El Mundo, ElDiario.es and other media. Her first documentary, Now You Are a Woman, won the Audience Award at the FIRE!! festival in 2019. Between May and June 2023, she took part in the Finestres literary residency. She currently works in communications and as a scriptwriter for audiovisual projects.

Other activities involving the participant:

Reading and writing in times of war
The journey that transforms

Enzo Maqueira

(Buenos Aires, 1977) 

Es autor del libro de crónicas Historias de putas (2008) y de las novelas Ruda macho (2010), El impostor (2011), Electrónica (2014), Hágase usted mismo (2018, finalista del Premio Silverio Cañada de la Semana Negra de Gijón, y Premio municipal Ricardo Rojas de la ciudad de Buenos Aires) e Higiene sexual del soltero (2023). Fue traducido al inglés, portugués, italiano y francés. Es graduado en comunicación social, docente universitario y colabora con diversos medios gráficos y digitales, como las revistas Anfibia, Vice y Viva, y el diario Clarín. Además, conduce el programa Narraciones extraordinarias, por radio Provincia. Es miembro fundador de la Unión de Escritoras y Escritores, asociación civil que brega por los derechos laborales de los autores.
 

Judith Gómez Machado

Es periodista y comunicadora, y cuenta con más de quince años de experiencia creando estrategias de contenido digitales en el mundo del entretenimiento. Con actual base en Ciudad de México, lidera el equipo de Alianzas Estratégicas con Creadores para TikTok en Latinoamérica hispanohablante, el cual tiene como objetivo facilitar educación, crecimiento y desarrollo a miles de creadores de contenido latinos. 
Amante de la música comenzó su carrera como periodista cultural y cocreó el medio de comunicación indieHearts (Premio Intel a la Innovación 2011), para luego especializarse en comunidades online y marketing en empresas como Mercado Libre, Livra (actual Ipsos), Turner Broadcasting System (actual Warner Media) y Universal Music Argentina. Emigró a São Paulo, Brasil, en 2019, donde comenzó a trabajar en TikTok como una de las primeras colaboradoras para la región Andina y de Sudamérica de la plataforma, estableciendo numerosas alianzas con creadores de contenido, medios de comunicación, discográficas e instituciones deportivas. 
 

@chepispuebla

ChepisPuebla es un apasionado creador de contenido que le gusta innovar y siempre estar a la vanguardia con lo más relevante de la cultura popular. Ha tenido el placer de cubrir la mayoría de los eventos de una de sus grandes pasiones que es el cine y las series. También le gusta compartir diferentes ángulos, su pasión por el futbol en @Chepisfut.

@soypulpoculto

Nuestra misión en Pulpo Culto es explicar todo lo que podamos del mundo y del universo. Empezamos a hablar de ciencia en 2022, y desde entonces nos convertimos en una fuente de información para los seguidores del contenido científico. Fernanda Torres es nuestra host principal, y se ha colocado como una de las divulgadoras científicas favoritas en plataformas digitales como TikTok. 

Magali Ortega

Autora del Chismecito Literario Vol. 1 y 2, co-conductora y co-creadora del podcast literario Cháchara Literaria enfocada a hablar de libros, arte y literatura. Es creadora de contenido literario y de cultura pop. 

Other activities involving the participant:

Podcasts & books

Toni Pou

Invitado de Honor

Toni Pou holds a degree in physics from the University of Barcelona and is a science writer. He coordinated the science supplement of the newspaper Ara for seven years and is a regular contributor to magazines such as El Món d’Ahir and to various programmes on Catalunya Ràdio and other media outlets. He is co-director of the Postgraduate Programme in Science Communication at the University of Vic and co-founder of the science communication agency Eduscopi. He has curated L’Àrtic es trenca (The Arctic Is Breaking), a travelling exhibition produced by CosmoCaixa and the Radical Science series at the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (CCCB), and he has served as deputy director of the podcast Radicals lliures on Catalunya Ràdio. He is the author of several popular science books and a science-themed novel, and he is the scriptwriter and executive producer of the audio drama Impura sang (3Cat). His work has been recognised with several awards.

Other activities involving the participant:

Lecture: “When he woke up, the cheesecake was still there”

Aubín Arroyo

(Mexico, 1974)

He is a mathematician and a visual artist. He is a researcher at the Institute of Mathematics, Cuernavaca Campus of UNAM, where he specializes in dynamical systems, tropical geometry and number theory. He obtained his PhD in 2002 at the Institute of Pure and Applied Mathematics (IMPA), in Brazil. His research has been key to describe the dynamics of singularly hyperbolic attractors and characterize their bifurcations, confirming a conjecture of Jacob Palis.
As a visual artist, Arroyo has fused mathematics and art in his visual work, which has been exhibited internationally in spaces such as the Kirchner Cultural Center and the Museum of Fine Arts in Paris. His innovative approach allows to visualize abstract concepts, transforming mathematical theories into aesthetic expressions. He currently coordinates the Virtual Museum of Mathematics (Mumat), a pioneering project in the dissemination of mathematics from an interdisciplinary perspective. He has also curated exhibitions such as Imaginario Matemático at Universum, reaffirming its commitment to bringing the beauty of mathematics to diverse audiences.

Other activities involving the participant:

A tour of MUMAT, the Virtual Mathematics Museum

Eduardo Sáenz de Cabezón

Eduardo Sáenz de Cabezón was not born a mathematician, but he became one. He works at the University of La Rioja, in Spain, where he researches in something called computational algebra, which has him entertained almost all the time. The rest is spent teaching classes, and talking about science and math, wherever he finds people willing to listen. And he is always found in talks, social networks, YouTube, television, radio and various podcasts. He has also written several books with such threatening titles as Inteligencia matemática, Apocalipsis matemático, El árbol de Emmy or Invitación al aprendizaje. It is known that someone has read the entire four books. He has received several awards, all during his lifetime. He often comments that his greatest achievement is to make some people realize that they liked mathematics, even though they didn't know it.

Renato Iturriaga Acevedo

He studied his bachelor's degree (1984-1988) and a master's degree (1988-1989) in mathematics at the Faculty of Sciences of the National Autonomous University of Mexico. He completed his doctorate at the Institute of Pure and Applied Mathematics (IMPA) in Rio de Janeiro (1989-1993). Since 1994 he has been working at the Center for Research in Mathematics in Guanajuato. Where he is currently a senior researcher C. Member of the National System of Researchers level III, and member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences.

His specialty is dynamical systems, partial differential equations and the calculus of variations. He has just over 30 projects with about a thousand citations.
He was President of the Board of Directors of the Mexican mathematical society, in the period 2020-2022

For just over two years he edited a science section in the newspaper Correo, from the state of Guanajuato. He has about 20 popular articles in different newspapers on various topics. He is, along with Aubin Arroyo, creator and coordinator of the Virtual Museum of Mathematics. In his free time he enjoys photography, walking, swimming, gardening, painting, and reading.

Other activities involving the participant:

A tour of MUMAT, the Virtual Mathematics Museum

Laia Vilaseca

Invitado de Honor

Laia Vilaseca (Barcelona, 1981), a passionate fan of mystery, true crime and noir fiction, is a writer and journalist.
In 2021, her novel La noia del vestit blau (The Girl in the Blue Dress) was published by Rosa dels Vents after becoming a best-seller during the three years it was self-published on Amazon. This brought her to an even wider readership and established her as the breakout Catalan crime author of the year.
With Quan la neu es fon (When the Thaw Arrives), she captivated readers with a fast-paced, gripping thriller in which nature and mystery once again take centre stage, and in which her passion for true crime and suspense is more evident than ever. The novel won Best Novel of 2022 at the Lloret Negre festival.
L’Illa del Silenci (The Island of Silence) is her fourth novel, a piece of rural noir that shows that no matter how much time passes, there are deaths that cannot be overcome until justice is served.
L’udol de l’aigua (The Howl of the Water) is her fifth novel.
 

Other activities involving the participant:

Sustainable narratives

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:

Expanded noir literature
Perreo, electro, and punk in literature

Andreu Martín

Invitado de Honor

Andreu Martín, born in Barcelona in 1949, is a writer of noir and police novels. He broke into the genre in 1979 with Muts i a la gàbia, but it was the following year that he garnered acclaim with Pròtesi, which won the Círculo del Crimen Award and was adapted for the screen by Vicente Aranda. He has written several other novels in the same genre over the course of his career, many of which have earned him awards. The most notable include Si és o no és, which won the Deutscher Krimi Preis International in Germany, and Barcelona connection and L’home que tenia raó, both recognised with the prestigious Hammett Prize by the International Association of Crime Writers.
His other significant accolades include the Ateneo de Sevilla Award for Bellíssimes persones, which also received a Hammett Prize, and the Alfons el Magnànim Award for De tot cor. Beyond crime fiction, Andreu Martín has also explored genres such as erotica, in Espera, ponte así (winner of the La Sonrisa Vertical Award); sports fiction, in Hat trick, and children’s and young adult literature. In his writing for young people, he has teamed up with Jaume Ribera to create the teenage detective Flanagan, the protagonist of a well-known saga that begins with No demanis llobarro fora de temporada, which won the Spanish National Children’s and Young Adult Literature Award. An author with an extensive, wide-ranging oeuvre, Andreu Martín has made a name for himself as one of the leading voices in contemporary Catalan-language fiction.
 

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
Expanded noir literature
Tribute to Ana María Matute. Grand literature
From where one writes
Literary agencies in Barcelona

María Emilia Beyer

She is a biologist and a master in philosophy of science from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). She is the director of Universum, Science Museum. Author of more than 30 popular science papers related to the natural sciences and health sciences, as well as the author of nine popular science books. Creator of the exhibitions Science with chocolate flavor, Women inventors and Dinosaurs among us, in collaboration with the American Museum of Natural History in New York. She has been a member of the Board of Directors at the Association of Science and Technology Centers since 2021, and a member of the Board of Directors of the Mexican Committee of the International Council of Museums (ICOM). 

Other activities involving the participant:

Secrets of neuroplasticity
Aging hand in hand with science
Science and art
Science on a soccer field
How does CRISPR gene editing work?
Julieta Fierro: a forever star

Heinz Wuth

Heinz Wuth is a chef, a science promoter and a declared fan of mixing the kitchen with the lab coat. With more than 20 years between kitchens and experiments, he has traveled from international hotels to scientific kitchens, dedicating the last decade to teaching scientific gastronomy in an entertaining and tasty way.

In his project @soycienciaycocina, he explains why bread rises, how an onion is caramelized or what chemistry has to do with that grandma's stew that tastes like a hug. Heinz turns recipes into experiments, and transforms cooking into a practical class with a lot of flavor.
 

Norma Corado

Norma Angelica Corado-Nava is a biologist with a doctorate in science, and a specialty in museum project management from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). Since 2006 she has been dedicated to the Public Communication of Science in different media, such as radio, television, and especially in museums. She has made more than 20 science exhibitions for Universum at the UNAM. She gives multiple lectures aimed mainly at secondary and high-school level youth on conjunctural science topics. She is a scientific diving instructor with more than 30 years of experience training different generations of people dedicated to the study and conservation of the oceans. She has been awarded the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize awarded by the UNAM, in 2021. 

Other activities involving the participant:

Science on a soccer field

Vivek Shraya

(Canadá, 1981)

Artista cuyo trabajo cruza los límites de la música, la literatura, las artes visuales, el teatro, la televisión, el cine y la moda.
Vivek, tres veces ganadora del Premio Canadian Screen, es la creadora y guionista de la serie original de CBC Gem, How to Fail as a Popstar, cuyo estreno internacional fue en Cannes. Fue nominada al Premio Polaris de Música y ha colaborado con íconos musicales como Jann Arden, Peaches y Jully Black. Su exitoso libro I'm Afraid of Men fue aclamado por Vanity Fair como un "impulso cultural".
Su decimotercer libro, una novela distópica, The Hystericals, se publicará en otoño de 2026 por McClelland & Stewart.
 

Other activities involving the participant:

Literature, identity, and resistance
Echoes of FIL

Bel Olid

Invitado de Honor

Bel Olid (Mataró, 1977) is a writer and translator, as well as the coordinator of the Catalan Studies programme at the University of Chicago, where they teach language and literature.
Their work, which engages with contemporary debates on gender, identity and sexuality, has been translated into several languages. In September they will publish the essay La mare incompleta (The Incomplete Mother), which explores the hidden costs of assisted reproduction.
 

Other activities involving the participant:

Feminist gaze and male guilt
The right to language
From where one writes

Ingrid Bejerman

(Argentina/Brasil/Canadá/España, 1974) 

Periodista, profesora y gestora cultural, especialista en reportajes de temas latinoamericanos y la enseñanza e institucionalización del periodismo. Trabajó como reportera y columnista para el diario brasileño O Estado de S. Paulo; como coordinadora de programas para la Fundación para el Nuevo Periodismo Iberoamericano (FNPI) en Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, y como directora de la Cátedra Latinoamericana Julio Cortázar, en la Universidad de Guadalajara, México. Desde 2002 forma parte del comité de programación de Blue Metropolis, el Festival Literario Internacional de Montreal, donde tiene a su cargo la curaduría de eventos en español y portugués. Es doctora en estudios de la comunicación por McGill e imparte clases de investigación, teoría y práctica periodística en Concordia, ambas universidades de Montreal, Canadá.

Victoria Cirlot

Invitado de Honor

Victoria Cirlot is Professor of Romance Philology at the Faculty of Humanities at Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona.
Her research focuses on the Middle Ages, especially the culture of chivalry and mysticism. Her books on Arthurian romance and troubadour lyric poetry include Figuras del destino. Mitos y símbolos de la Europa medieval (Figures of Destiny. Myths and Symbols of Medieaval Europe) and ‘Tot es niens’. Ocho ensayos sobre literatura medieval (‘Everything Is Nothing’. Eight Essays on Mediaeval Literature) (San Millán de la Cogolla).
In the field of mediaeval mysticism, she has studied Hildegard von Bingen (Vida y visiones de Hildegard von Bingen [Life and Visions of Hildegard von Bingen], 1997–2006) and other women mystics, in collaboration with Blanca Garí, in La mirada interior. Escritoras místicas y visionarias en la Edad Media (The Inner Gaze. Women Mystics and Visionaries in the Middle Ages).
She has explored visionary experience through comparative studies of the Middle Ages and the twentieth century in works such as Hildegard von Bingen y la tradición visionaria de Occidente (Hildegard von Bingen and the Visionary Tradition of the West) and La visión abierta. Del mito del Grial al surrealismo (The Open Vision: From the Myth of the Grail to Surrealism).
Her most recent books include Grial. Poética y mito (siglos XII-XV) (Grail. Poetics and Myth (12th–15th Centuries)); El monasterio interior (The Inner Monastery) (with various contributors); Luces del Grial (Lights of the Grail); Imágenes negativas. Las nubes en la tradición mística y la modernidad (Negative Images. Clouds in Mystical Tradition and Modernity), Viña del Mar, Chile, Mundana, 2019; Visión en rojo. Abstracción e informalismo en El libro de las revelaciones de Juliana de Norwich (Vision in Red. Abstraction and Informalism in The Book of Revelations by Julian of Norwich); Ariadna abandonada. Friedrich Nietzsche trabaja en el mito (Ariadne Abandoned. Friedrich Nietzsche Works on the Myth) and Taüll. Liturgia y visión en los ábsides románicos catalanes (Taüll. Liturgy and Vision in the Romanesque Apses of Catalonia). She is currently working on her forthcoming book from Vaso Roto: Marginalia.
She was curator of the exhibition ‘Emotions. Images and Gestures from Past and Present’, held at the Museu Frederic Marès in Barcelona from 30/11/2023 to 26/05/2024 (with a catalogue of the same title).
 

Other activities involving the participant:

Argullol by Cirlot and Cirlot by Argullol

Mar García Puig

Invitado de Honor

Mar García Puig born in Barcelona in 1977, has a bachelor’s degree in English language and literature and a master’s degree in linguistics. She wrote La història dels vertebrats (La Magrana, 2023), which won the City of Barcelona Award, the No Llegiu Award and the Vanity Fair Award for best new author. Also published in Spanish (Random House, 2023), it will soon be translated into French, English and Portuguese and turned into a film. A publisher and translator by profession, she has contributed to media outlets such as El País, La Vanguardia, El Periódico, El Diario and Público, and she has a section on the Catalunya Ràdio programme Les dones i els dies. She also gives talks and workshops on the relationship between literature and madness.
 

Other activities involving the participant:

Learn how to write

Cristina Rivera Garza

Autora. Traductora. Crítica. Sus libros más recientes son Nadie me verá llorar (Random House, 2024), edición del 25 aniversario; El invencible verano de Liliana (Random House, 2021), que ganó el Premio Xavier Villaurrutia 2021 y, por su edición en inglés, el Pulitzer Prize 2024; Autobiografía del algodón (Random House, 2020); El mal de la taiga (Random House, 2019), cuya traducción al inglés (por Suzanne Jill Levine y Aviva Kana) recibió el Shirley Jackson Award 2018. En 2020 obtuvo la MacArthur Fellowship; y en 2021, el Premio Iberoamericano de Letras José Donoso. Es Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen Distinguished Professor en la Universidad de Houston, donde fundó el doctorado en Escritura Creativa en español