Fernanda Trías

Fernanda Trías is a writer and teacher. She has published *Cuaderno para un solo ojo* (Notebook for a Single Eye), *La azotea* (The Rooftop), *La ciudad invencible* (The Invincible City), *No soñarás flores* (You Will Not Dream of Flowers), *Mugre rosa* (Pink Filth), and *El monte de las furias* (The Mountain of Furies). For *Mugre rosa*, she received the National Literature Prize (Uruguay, 2020), the Bartolomé Hidalgo Prize (Uruguay, 2021), and the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize (Mexico, 2021). In 2024, *Mugre rosa* was nominated for the National Book Awards in the United States. Both *La azotea* and *Mugre rosa* received the British PEN Translates Award (2020 and 2022). In 2025, she again received the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize for her novel *El monte de las furias*. Her novels have been translated into twenty languages. Since 2015, she has lived in Colombia, where she teaches in the Creative Writing Master's Program at the Caro y Cuervo Institute.

Other activities involving the participant:

Opening talk: among streets, books, bookstores, and loves

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:

The Poetry Room
Central America in Mexico, and Mexico in Central America: a literary round trip
Perreo, electro, and punk in literature

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:

The Pleasure of Reading Gala