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
The Pleasure of Reading Gala

Mónica Ojeda

(Ecuador, 1988)

Es autora de las novelas La desfiguración Silva (Premio Alba Narrativa, 2014), Nefando (Candaya, 2016), Mandíbula (Candaya, 2018) y Chamanes eléctricos en la fiesta del sol (Random House, 2024), así como de los poemarios El ciclo de las piedras (Rastro de la Iguana, 2015) e Historia de la leche (Candaya, 2020). Sus cuentos han sido recogidos en Caninos (Editorial Turbina, 2017) y Las voladoras (Páginas de Espuma, 2020). Ha sido seleccionada como una de las voces literarias más relevantes de Latinoamérica por el Hay Festival, Bogotá39 2017, y por la lista Granta en español 2021.

Other activities involving the participant:

The literature that disturbs

Julián Herbert

Acapulco, Guerrero, 1971. Es poeta, novelista, cuentista y ensayista. Ha recibido el Premio Nacional de Literatura Gilberto Owen, el Premio Nacional de Cuento Juan José Arreola, el Premio Jaén de Novela y el Premio de Novela Elena Poniatowska, entre otros. Es autor de una decena de libros de poesía, entre los que se cuentan Kubla Khan (2005), Pastilla camaleón (2009) y Las azules baladas (vienen del sueño) (2014). Su libro más reciente es Suerte de principiante. Once ideas sobre el oficio (2024).

Other activities involving the participant:

Award Ceremony Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize 2025
The Poetry Room
Central America in Mexico, and Mexico in Central America: a literary round trip

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
(Literally) killers in Barcelona

El Aletz

Aletz Carrillo (CDMX, 1981) es escritor, bellako onírico y punk imaginal. Mezcla letras con box, rap y reguetón. Escribe desde la banqueta, cruzando ciencia ficción, trauma y perreo literario. Es autor también de Adiós a Dylan (premio Mauricio Achar).

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

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:

The Pleasure of Reading Gala
Perreo, electro, and punk in literature

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:

Feminist gaze and male guilt