Jorge Gonzalvo

(Zaragoza, Spain)

He is a writer, editor, screenwriter and cultural manager.  What he loves most about writing is teaching people how to create stories, which is why he has been teaching courses and workshops on the subject for over 20 years. As an author he has published several illustrated albums in the company of illustrators such as Cecilia Varela or Elena Odriozola. His best-known works are: Te regalo un cuento (Lóguez), Despedida de tristeza (Lóguez) and Tropecista (Bárbara Fiore). In May 2025 he plans to publish an illustrated album about the life of María de Luna, which will be accompanied by the images of Marina Velasco. 

He is a founding member of the Atrapavientos Association, awarded with the National Prize for the Promotion of Reading 2022 granted by the Ministry of Culture of Spain. Atrapavientos is a Spanish organization with more than fifteen years of experience and committed to promoting reading, especially among the youngest, but also in rural areas or with groups at risk of reading exclusion. Atrapavientos has collaborated with entities such as the Spanish Agency for International Cooperation for Development (AECID), the Cultural Center of Spain in Mexico, the Cultural Center of Spain in Costa Rica, the Cultural Center of Spain in Tegucigalpa, the Instituto Cervantes, Ministry of Culture of Spain, CaixaForum, Ibercaja Foundation, Writers School, Aldeas Infantile, Believe in Art or Atades, among others. 

Some of the most recognized reader development projects of Atrapavientos are: Libros que Importan (a book exchange in public spaces that was created in 2016 and that to date has connected more than 15,600 readers from almost a hundred Spanish towns and also from Mexico, Sweden and the Netherlands), Plantadores de Historias, Cuentos al Viento, RecoLectores (an initiative of reader development in rural areas), La Asombrosa Máquina de Generar Historias, Leer es un Vicio (possibly the worst campaign to promote reading in the world) or Magia en los Libros. To date, about 85 thousand people have participated in the activities of Atrapavientos during its fifteen years of trajectory. 

Other activities involving the participant:

Workshop-Talk: “Does the algorithm dream of electric verses?”

Kiko Amat

Invitado de Honor

Kiko Amat (Sant Boi, 1971) is the author of seven novels and three works of non-fiction. Published by Anagrama, his books include El día que me vaya no se lo diré a nadie (The Day I Leave I Won’t Tell Anyone) (2003): ‘An intense, angry and stylised tale, like a Small Faces single’ (Ramón Vendrell, El Periódico); Cosas que hacen BUM (Things that go BOOM) (2007): ‘With invigorating humour, Kiko Amat evokes the desperate attempts of an anti-hero to be accepted by the clan. A generational self-portrait full of mockery and nostalgia’ (Ariane Singer, Le Monde); Rompepistas (Trackbreaker) (2009): ‘A Trainspotting (almost) without drugs. A Catcher in the Rye et in the La Seda factory. A Graham Swift without Guinness (but with Estrella). An excellent novel’ (Carlos Zanón); Eres el mejor, Cienfuegos (You’re the Best, Cienfuegos) (2012): ‘In literature, at least, Amat is probably the best there is’ (Javier Calvo); Antes del huracán (Before the Hurricane) (2018): ‘Extraordinary. This novel belongs to the realm of high-brow literature’ (Jordi Gracia, El País); Revancha (Revenge) (2021): ‘Tough, fast, violent – Revancha is a perfect bullet, the literary reverse of hypocrisy’ (Lucía Lijtmaer). He is also the author of the handbook Los enemigos (The Enemies) (2022): ‘A book that combines humour, seriousness and bile to reflect on the value of certain “bad” feelings’ (Carmen López, El Periódico de España). His latest novel is Dick o la tristeza del sexo (Dick or the Sadness of Sex) (2025). He is also the author of two non-fiction books, Mil violines (A Thousand Violins) and Chap chap.
He currently co-writes and co-hosts the podcast Pop y muerte on Radio Primavera Sound.

Other activities involving the participant:

Sexual awakening
Perreo, electro, and punk in literature

Katya Adaui

(Lima, 1977) 

Adoro los cuentos porque son viajes cortos, pero de largo plazo. 
Aun cuando no estoy escribiendo, estoy escribiendo.
Encuentro consuelo en el lenguaje y en pensar al otro desde sus contradicciones.
Soy autora de los libros de cuentos Un nombre para tu isla y Geografía de la oscuridad, con Páginas de Espuma; Aquí hay icebergs y Algo se nos ha escapado. Y de las novelas Quiénes somos ahora y Nunca sabré lo que entiendo. También escribí cuatro libros infantiles, entre ellos, Otra cosa.
Vivo en Buenos Aires: hay más librerías que McDonald´s. Dicto talleres. Y enseño en la carrera artes de la escritura de la Universidad Nacional de las Artes (UNA).

Other activities involving the participant:

Annual International Storytellers Conference

Giselle Etcheverry Walker

Giselle Etcheverry Walker is a curator of literary and cultural projects, as well as a freelance editor. She holds a degree in Philosophy and has an MBA in Business Management and Cultural Institutions. 

From 2004 to 2009 she worked in the Prisa Group’s literary agency La Oficina del Autor. From 2009 to 2019 she was deputy director of the Santillana Foundation (Culture), where she participated in the development and consolidation of projects such as the Formentor Literary Conversations (Mallorca), the Congress of Cultural Journalism (Santander), the Forum of Cultural Industries (Madrid) and the Philosophy Festival (Madrid), among others.

As an editor, she has edited Hambre de realidad, by David Shields (CdT, 2017), El arte de perder. Una vida en cartas, by F. Scott Fitzgerald (CdT, 2018) and Decantaciones kantianas, by Ezra Heymann (Guillermo Editores, 2019). For more than ten years she was co-editor of the literary portal El Boomeran(g).

She has been curator of festival La Noche de los Libros de Madrid in 2022, 2023 and 2024, and curator of the editions of Bloomsday Madrid-Dublin 2023 and 2024, an event for celebrate Ulysses by James Joyce. Since 2020 until 2024, she was curator of El pecado de leer [The sin of reading], a series of literary events of Alianza Editorial Publishing House. Currently she is Head of Thinking and Literary programme at the Contemporánea Condeduque cultural centre (Madrid). 

In 2022 she contributed to the design of the literary programme of Spain’s Guest of Honour at the Frankfurt Book Fair, as well as the contents of the pavilion and the programmes with German festivals and universities that hosted authors from Spain throughout that year. In 2024 she worked on the design of the content of the literary and pavilion programmes for Spain’s presence as Guest of Honour at the Guadalajara International Book Fair. She is a member of Policrits, Red de Pensamiento Crítico Iberoamericano Contemporáneo.

Other activities involving the participant:

Award Ceremony Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize 2025

Katya Adaui

(Lima, 1977) 

Adoro los cuentos porque son viajes cortos, pero de largo plazo. 
Aun cuando no estoy escribiendo, estoy escribiendo.
Encuentro consuelo en el lenguaje y en pensar al otro desde sus contradicciones.
Soy autora de los libros de cuentos Un nombre para tu isla y Geografía de la oscuridad, con Páginas de Espuma; Aquí hay icebergs y Algo se nos ha escapado. Y de las novelas Quiénes somos ahora y Nunca sabré lo que entiendo. También escribí cuatro libros infantiles, entre ellos, Otra cosa.
Vivo en Buenos Aires: hay más librerías que McDonald´s. Dicto talleres. Y enseño en la carrera artes de la escritura de la Universidad Nacional de las Artes (UNA).

Other activities involving the participant:

The Pleasure of Reading Gala

Liliana Blum

(México, 1974)

Es autora de las novelas Pandora (Tusquets, 2015), El monstruo pentápodo (Tusquets, 2017), Cara de Liebre (Seix Barral, 2020), El extraño caso de Lenny Goleman (Planeta, 2022) y Ráfaga roja (Seix Barral, 2025), y de los libros de cuentos La maldición de Eva (2002), ¿En qué se nos fue la mañana? (2007), Vidas de catálogo (2007), The Curse of Eve and Other Stories (2008), Yo sé cuando expira la leche (2011), Tristeza de los cítricos (2019), Todas hemos perdido algo (Tusquets, 2020) y Un descuido cósmico (Tusquets, 2023). Sus escritos son parte de las antologías El crimen como una de las bellas artes (2002), Atrapadas en la madre (2006), El espejo de Beatriz (2009), Óyeme con los ojos: de sor Juana al siglo XXI (2010) y Three Messages and a Warning: Contemporary Mexican Short Stories of the Fantastic (2012).

Other activities involving the participant:

The literature that disturbs

Irene Reyes-Noguerol

Born in Seville, in November 1997. She graduated in Hispanic philology with an Extraordinary Prize and a master's degree in secondary education from the University of Seville. She has completed a Creative Writing Workshop with the Camilo José Cela University, in Madrid.

Winner of 57 literary awards and selected by the magazine Granta as one of the 25 best young storytellers in Spanish. Co-author in 16 anthologies and author of the short story books Caleidoscopios (Editions in Flight, 2016) and  Homero y otros dioses (Maclein and Parker, 2018).
She currently works as a teacher of Spanish language and literature in public secondary schools.

Alberto Chimal

Alberto Chimal (Toluca, Mexico, 1970) is a writer and professor of creative writing. In 2002 he won the National Short Story Prize, and in 2014 the Colima Narrative Prize, awarded by the National Institute of Fine Arts of his country; in 2013 his novel La torre y el jardín  was a finalist of the Rómulo Gallegos International Prize; in 2019 his children's book La Distante he received the International Prize of the Cuatrogatos Foundation; in 2021 his novel La noche en la zona M he won the International Book Bank Award, and in 2024 he was awarded the FILEM International Prize for his literary career. His other works are the novels Los esclavos (2009) and The visitor (2022); a score of short story books, of which the most recent is Las estancias secretas (2024); the scripts of the films 7:19 (2016), directed by Jorge Michel Grau, and Confesiones (2023), directed by Carlos Carrera; "Funeral", an illustrated story within the Batman graphic novel: El Mundo (2021), and the fiction podcast La señal (2025). His texts have been translated into a dozen languages and have appeared in international anthologies. He lives in Mexico City; with his wife, the writer Raquel Castro, he maintains a literary dissemination channel on YouTube. In Páginas de Espuma, he has published Los atacantes (2015) and Manos de lumbre (2018).

Other activities involving the participant:

Annual International Storytellers Conference
Annual International Storytellers Conference
A shared look at literature: stories between east and west