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
From where one writes
Bodies in transit: writing the self beyond labels

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.

Carlota Gurt

Invitado de Honor

Carlota Gurt, born in Barcelona in 1976, has been a translator for more than ten years, and in another life, she worked as a producer for the theatre company La Fura dels Baus and the Festival Temporada Alta. She juggles her real life and her literary life and contributes to various media outlets. Her work includes the short story collection Cavalcarem tota la nit (2019 Mercè Rodoreda Award) and the novel Sola (2020), both of which have been translated into several languages. In 2023, she published the short story collection Biografia del foc.

Other activities involving the participant:

Of families, happy and unhappy in their own way
Praise (from Barcelona) for the story
Annual International Storytellers Conference

Pablo Martín Sánchez

Invitado de Honor

Pablo Martín Sánchez (Reus, 1977) holds a PhD in French Language and Literature from the University of Lille and a PhD in Literary and Artistic Theory and Comparative Literature from the University of Granada. A member of the Ouvroir de Littérature Potentielle (Oulipo), he works regularly as a translator and creative writing instructor. In addition to Fricciones (Frictions) (2024), he has published the novels The Anarchist Who Shared My Name (Acantilado, 2012 (English publication: Deep Vellum, 2018)), Tuyo es el mañana (Yours is Tomorrow) (Acantilado, 2016) and Diario de un viejo cabezota (Diary of a Stubborn Old Man) (Acantilado, 2020), as well as Agatha (2017), co-written with Sara Mesa. His work has been translated into French, English, Czech and Dutch.

Other activities involving the participant:

Praise (from Barcelona) for the story

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
Bodies in transit: writing the self beyond labels

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
(Literally) killers in Barcelona
Literary agencies in Barcelona

Arià Paco

Invitado de Honor

Arià Paco (Igualada, 1993) és doctor en filosofia por la Universidad de Arizona. Ha publicado tres novelas en catalán, Mentir a les mosques (2020)  y Covarda, vella, tan salvatge (2022), Premio Roc Boronat, y éste 2025 ha sido ganador del Premi Llibres Anagrama de Novel.la con la novela Teoria del joc, que ahora se publica en castellano como Teoría del juego. Colabora en distintos medios digitales y podcasts culturales.

Other activities involving the participant:

Sexual awakening

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:

The right to language
From where one writes
Bodies in transit: writing the self beyond labels

Txell Feixas

Invitado de Honor

Txell Feixas Torras, born in Mediona in 1979, is a journalist. She has worked in Beirut as a Middle East correspondent for the Catalan Audiovisual Media Corporation. She covered the war against the Islamic State in Iraq, the fall of the Caliphate from Rojava and the Great March of Return in Gaza, among other crucial events in the area.
Before that, she followed the kidnapping of the Barcelona Acció Solidària volunteers in Mauritania, for which Al-Qaeda claimed responsibility, and the humanitarian crisis at the Ceuta border fence
with Morocco, among other various conflicts. She has published Dones valentes and Aliades with Ara Llibres.
 

Other activities involving the participant:

Reading and writing in times of war