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FIL Literature
The literature that disturbs
Participants: Liliana Blum, Bernardo Esquinca, Ferran Garcia, Mónica Ojeda
Moderator: Rogelio Guedea
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:
Annual International Storytellers Conference
Bernardo Esquinca
La narrativa de Bernardo Esquinca (Guadalajara, 1972) se distingue por fusionar lo sobrenatural con lo policiaco. En Almadía ha publicado la Trilogía del Terror, conformada por los volúmenes de cuentos Los niños de paja, Demonia y Mar Negro; la Saga Casasola, integrada por las novelas La octava plaga, Toda la sangre, Carne de ataúd, Inframundo y Necropolitana; la antología Ciudad fantasma. Relato fantástico de la Ciudad de México (xix-xxi), El libro de los dioses y Asesina íntima. Las increíbles aventuras del asombroso Edgar Allan Poe recibió el Premio Nacional de Novela Negra de México en 2017.
Ferran Garcia
Invitado de HonorFerran Garcia Moreno was born on the Plain of Vic, and that explains a lot. He has published the novels Recorda que moriràs (Males Herbes, 2016), Blasfèmia (Males Herbes, 2019) and Guilleries (Males Herbes, 2022). As for poetry, he is the author of Larva (Lleonard Muntaner Editor, 2017; Pare Colom Poetry Award) and the unpublished collection Magror (21st Pere Badia Poetry Award, 2021). He has also published short stories in various anthologies and won the Recvll Award in 2020 for Òpera Creus,about the late writer Miquel Creus, from the same region of Catalonia. Sau (Males Herbes, 2025) is his most recent novel.
Other activities involving the participant:
The past that goes with us
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:
Perreo, electro, and punk in literature
Friday, December 05
19:00 to 20:50
FIL Literature
Annual International Storytellers Conference
Annual International Storytellers Conference
The International Storytellers Conference is a space to celebrate the brevity, magic and intensity of short stories. This nineteenth edition brings together authors from different languages, traditions and geographies who share the same passion: to narrate the essential with a few powerful words.
Family ties, memory, indifference, home, desire, body, grief, motherhood, and loss make up the stories of eleven writers who come together to reveal the vitality and diversity of contemporary storytelling, and invite us to explore unique worlds, to explore the intimate, the social, the imagined and the lived, all in the precise and powerful space of the story.
The three dialogue tables will be moderated by the Mexican writer Alberto Chimal, who, in addition to collaborating with the selection of participants, will take the helm of the conversations between authors and readers.
Participants: Katya Adaui, Liliana Blum, Irene Reyes-Noguerol
Moderator: Alberto Chimal
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
Saturday, December 06
19:30 to 20:50