The University of Guadalajara, through a project created by the Environmental Sciences Museum as part of the University’s Cultural Center, and with the support of the Guadalajara International Book Fair, has established the José Emilio Pacheco City and Nature Award. The prize, which will be given for the first time this year, will be dedicated to poetry. The winning author, who must write in Spanish and have at least ten unpublished poems or poems published in the last five years that are related to nature, urban sustainability, socio-ecological harmony and environmental conservation, will be given a purse of US $10,000. The award is dedicated to poet José Emilio Pacheco, whose work explores the duality between cities and nature.
Call For Entries 2025
Created by the University of Guadalajara, and with the collaboration of the National Institute for Indigenous Languages, the Culture Ministry, the National Commission for the Development of the Indigenous Cultures and Jalisco’s Department of Education, the American Indigenous Literature Award is granted to enrich, protect and promote the legacy and richness of Mexico’s indigenous peoples through literature in all its forms, and to and acknowledge and further develop the careers and works of indigenous authors. The award, which carries a purse of US $25,000, will be given for the fourth time at the 2016 FIL Guadalajara.
The SM Ibero-American Award for Literature for Children and Young People was implemented in 2005, the year of Ibero-American literature, with the goal of promoting literature for children and young people throughout Ibero-America. The award is given out each year during the Guadalajara International Book Fair to recognize writers of literature for children and young people and carries a purse of US $30,000.
With the goal of creating a network that helps to encourage the work of illustrators of books for children and young people in Ibero-America, the SM Foundation and the FIL Guadalajara invites illustrators to submit their work to be included in the Annual Ibero-American Illustration Catalog. The 45 works selected will be displayed in an exposition at the Guadalajara International Book Fair. In addition, illustrators will have the opportunity to work on an illustrated book with Ediciones SM and the winner will be given US $5,000. You can find more information at: www.iberoamericailustra.com
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Guest of Honor Pavilion
Spain, Guest of Honor
Guest of Honor Pavilion
Meetings (and misunderstandings). María Zambrano and Alfonso Reyes
Spain, Guest of Honor
Guest of Honor Pavilion
Meetings (and misunderstandings). María Zambrano and Alfonso Reyes
"I was invited to Mexico by the Casa de España, which would soon be called Colegio de México. It was a really unusual gesture, no country wanted us Spanish refugees, only Mexico, only Mexico, I wouldn't tire of saying it, like a prayer." And in this operation by Mexican philosopher María Zambrano to save the Spanish intelligentsia, the Colegio de México, and especially Alfonso Reyes, its director of twenty years, was a central figure in welcoming and protecting the writers and intellectuals of the Second Republic. In February 1939, the young disciple of Ortega y Gasset arrived as a professor at the University of Morelia, where she wrote Filosofía y poesía, one of the essential texts for understanding her approach to poetry. During her months at Morelia, Zambrano would write to Reyes to keep him up to date on her activities. Those first exchanges would soon cross over the threshold of formality to become a deep friendship. Reyes and Zambrano exchanged letters between 1939 and 1959. Despite being of very different backgrounds and ages, both thinkers shared the same feeling, that of citizens of a multiple, heterogeneous and diverse world, in which there is room for all peoples and cultures. It's the love of art, a fascination for the world of classics and mythology; an encyclopedic curiosity, literature and, of course, America, the issues of which these letters speak that forever bonded María Zambrano and Alfonso Reyes in mutual respect and admiration. An enriching friendship that will be discussed by Adolfo Castañón, Mexican writer, poet and essayist, a student of Alfonso Reyes' works, and Mercedes Gómez Blesa, writer, researcher and PhD in Philosophy whose investigation revolves around intellectuals in the Second Republic, and particularly around the figure of María Zambrano.
Participants: Mercedes Gómez Blesa, Adolfo Castañón
Moderator: Marifé Santiago Bolaños
Mercedes Gómez Blesa
Invitado de Honor(Casas Ibáñez, Albacete, 1964)
She holds a PhD in Philosophy from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid and is an essayist and art critic. She has focused her research on the work of intellectuals and artists from the Silver Age, particularly María Zambrano, to whom she dedicated the essay La razón mediadora.Filosofía y Piedad en María Zambrano (2008), for which she received the Premio Gran Vía de Ensayo. She has also edited critical editions of many of Zambrano's books, including Las palabras del regreso, Unamuno, Pensamiento y poesía en la vida española, Claros del bosque, and La agonía de Europa. In 2007, she published Las Intelectuales Republicanas.La conquista de la ciudadanía (2007).
In 2018, she produced the critical edition of La mujer moderna y sus derechos by Carmen de Burgos and introduced Modernas y vanguardistas.Las mujeres-faro de la Edad de Plata (2019). The arrival of the pandemic and its consequences inspired her essay Estéticas de la ausencia (2021). In 2023, she collected feminist writings from Concepción Arenal under the title La mujer de transición.
In the field of art, she has curated samples from Natividad Navalón, Suso Barrio, Marta Troya and Luis Moro. She is a trustee of the María Zambrano Foundation and a member of the associations El legado de las mujeres and Clásicas y Modernas, which seek to showcase the works of women in the fields of art, thought, and science.
Adolfo Castañón
(Mexico City, 1952) is a poet, essayist, translator and editor. He is the author of numerous works, including En una nuez: guía de mis libros (1977-2022), published by Bonilla Artigas Editores (2022). His literary calling has found expression in the realm of lyrical poetry: Recuerdos de Coyoacán (2015), Local del mundo (2018); fiction: A veces prosa (2003); non-fiction and literary review: América sintaxis (2009), Passing of Octavio Paz (2014), Por el país de Montaigne (2016), Alfonso Reyes: caballero de la voz errante (2018), Correspondencia Alfonso Reyes y Pedro Henríquez Ureña (2021), Emilio Uranga: Años de Alemania (1952-1956) (2022); aphorism: La belleza es lo esencial (2005), Perfiles del camino (2013); translation (of J.-J. Rousseau, Paul Ricoeur, George Steiner, Alain Rey, Roland Barthes, Louis Panabière); gastronomy: Grano de sal y otros cristales (2017). In 2024, he edited the anthology Corrientes Alternas, by Octavio Paz, for the Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) and the Association of Spanish Language Academies (ASALE).
He received the award Premio Xavier Villaurrutia in 2008, the award Premio Internacional Alfonso Reyes in 2018, and the award Premio Nacional de Artes y Literatura in 2020. He is creator emeritus of the National System of Art Creators (SNCA), Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters of the Government of France, and a member of the Mexican Academy of Language, of which he is the secretary.
Marifé Santiago Bolaños
Invitado de HonorBolaños has a PhD in Philosophy. Professor of Aesthetics at the Complutense University of Madrid, her studies on the dialogue between philosophy and artistic creation, and theater as a path of knowledge, are reflected in works such as La palabra detenida: una lectura del símbolo en el teatro de Buero Vallejo; Mirar al dios: el Teatro como camino de conocimiento; El secreto de Ofelia: teatro, tejidos, el cuerpo y la memoria; Arturo Baltar: el caminante que deshoja paisajes; Espejos de la nada: Marina Tsvietáieva y María Zambrano; Bailar sobre el demonio del olvido: apuntes para una estética de la danza; El honor: ensayo a partir de recetas apócrifas de Celestina; Reflexiones a la orilla del tiempo: algunos tés imprescindibles o Envidia.
She is on the board of the María Zambrano Foundation and a corresponding member of the Real Academia de Historia y Arte de San Quirce. She belongs to the Instituto de Teatro de Madrid (ITEM), the Instituto de Investigaciones Feministas (INITIFEM) and the Academia de las Artes Escénicas de España.
She coordinated the epistolary book against gender-based violence Quiero ser una caja de música: violencias machistas en la juventud adolescente; the dictionary Vislumbres de España, Italia e Iberoamérica, and the stage project “Cuadernos de la niña escondida” for equality through music learning.
She has written the novels El tiempo de las lluvias, Un ángel muerto sobre la hierba, El jardín de las favoritas olvidadas and La canción de Ruth, and her poetry books include Tres cuadernos de bitácora, Celebración de la espera, El día los días, La orilla de las mujeres fértiles, El país de los pequeños placeres, Nos mira la piedad desde las alambradas, Las constelaciones del Capitán, Teoría de los matices and La violencia es una veta miserable que cubrimos con canciones.
Sunday December 01
18:00 to 18:50
Pabellón de España, Expo Guadalajara
Spain, Guest of Honor
Guest of Honor Pavilion
Meetings (and misunderstandings). En otro país
Spain, Guest of Honor
Guest of Honor Pavilion
Meetings (and misunderstandings). En otro país
Uprooted writing, outside the country of origin, has been a common practice in Spanish literature. For various reasons - political or economic exiles, or other personal reasons - many Spanish and Latin American authors have written their work in a country other than their own, but within the Spanish-speaking world. These journeys within the diverse geography of Spanish-speaking countries have allowed these authors to observe their home from far away and with greater clarity, to contrast their different realities, and to intermingle their experience in their homeland with the places that subsequently welcomed them or became their home.
Against this backdrop, En otro país is an anthology of chronicles co-published by AECID and Candaya publishers, featuring 12 authors from Latin America and Spain with texts in which they describe an episode that took place in a country other than their own, but within the scope of the Spanish-speaking world.
Participants: Aitor Romero Ortega, Felipe Restrepo Pombo
Moderator: Javier Serena
Aitor Romero Ortega
Invitado de Honor(Barcelona, 1985) studied Industrial Engineering in Barcelona and Lyon. Since 2012, he has lived in Madrid. He is the author of the novel Deflagración (2015, Amor de madre, 2015), finalist for the Chambéry Début Novel Award. In 2018, he published the book of stories Fantasmas de la ciudad (Candaya), which includes eight stories in which urban spaces play a prominent role in the development of the plot and the characters' emotions. This collection of short stories received positive reviews in the leading literary supplements in Spain. In 2023, he published the book of chronicles or autobiographical essays El arte de escribir de pie (Candaya), in which he takes a personal and intimate journey through the history of modern and contemporary travel, exploring eight chronicles about cities or regions from Rome to Benidorm. El arte de escribir de pie has also garnered praise in the media and supplements that focus more on non-fiction and travel literature.
He has also taught workshops on storybooks and collaborated with literary magazines such as Altaïr Magazine, Negratinta, Culturamas, Cuadernos Hispanoamericanos, Casapaís and Kopek, where he has published chronicles, essays, poems and short stories. He is currently writing a novel.
Felipe Restrepo Pombo
Writer, editor and journalist. He has written six books that have been published in different languages. In 2017, he was selected as one of the best writers under 40 in Latin America. In 2021, he received the Premio Nacional de Periodismo Simón Bolívar in Colombia. He is the coordinator of the Premio Anagrama de Crónica and editor of the Crónica collection. He has worked with dozens of international media outlets. He has taught writing workshops in the United States, Spain, Mexico and Latin America. He is an occasional columnist for El País and Letras Libres. He was the editor of the Gatopardo magazine for six years.
Other activities involving the participant:
Naming Central America because Central America counts
The Pleasure of Reading Gala
Javier Serena
Invitado de HonorSerena is the director of the magazine Cuadernos Hispanoamericanos, published by the Directorate of Cultural and Scientific Relations of the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID) since its founding in 1948, and dedicated to literary criticism in Spanish.
He is the author of the novels Atila.Un escritor indescifrable (2015, Tropo; 2022, Srobo) and Last words on Earth (2018, Agadir). Both books are being translated into English in the United States by Open Letter Books.
He has been a fellow at the Antonio Gala Foundation, the Valparaíso Foundation, the Axóuxere Foundation, and the Les Récollets residency.
Other activities involving the participant:
Meetings (and misunderstandings). Challenges of recent Spanish narrative
Sunday December 01
19:00 to 19:50
Pabellón de España, Expo Guadalajara
Spain, Guest of Honor
Guest of Honor Pavilion
On literature in other formats. A crossroads. Ethics and literature Punzadas Sonoras (Podcast. Live episode)
Spain, Guest of Honor
Guest of Honor Pavilion
On literature in other formats. A crossroads. Ethics and literature Punzadas Sonoras (Podcast. Live episode)
In this live episode of Punzada Sonoras (podcast by Radio Primavera Sound), philosophers Inés García and Paula Ducay will talk to writer Pau Luque about the crossroads between literature and moral philosophy. What do the two disciplines have to say to each other? How are they related? Does literature have political potential, or is it able to catalyze philosophical reflection? Can it be associated with moral philosophy to have an impact on public life? They will address these questions through Luque's work, especially his books Las cosas como son y otras fantasías, Ñu and Hipocondría Moral. They will also consider what great thinkers like Plato, María Zambrano, Martha Nussbaum and Iris Murdoch have said about this intricate crossroads.
Participants: Inés García Hernáez, Paula Ducay, Pau Luque
Inés García Hernáez
Invitado de HonorShe graduated in Philosophy from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM) and holds a Master’s in Applied Ethics and another Master’s in Cultural Management and Social Innovation, both from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM). She co-founded the cultural project "Punzadas" together with Paula Ducay, where they run the podcast "Punzadas sonoras" and organize various cultural activities. She is interested in researching topics such as spatial justice and rurality.
Other activities involving the participant:
On literature in other formats. A two-way journey. Philosophy. Punzadas Sonoras (Podcast. Live episode)
Onliterature in other formats. Love and other paths . Punzadas sonoras (Podcast. Live episode)
Paula Ducay
Invitado de HonorGraduated in Philosophy and holds a Master's in Publishing from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM). She co-founded the cultural project “Punzadas” alongside Inés García, where they direct the podcast “Punzadas sonoras” and organize various cultural activities. Since childhood, she has cultivated a passion and interest in the world of books and contributes professionally to its various branches as a writer, editor, and translator. In February 2024, she published her first novel, La ternura.
Other activities involving the participant:
On literature in other formats. A two-way journey. Philosophy. Punzadas Sonoras (Podcast. Live episode)
Onliterature in other formats. Love and other paths . Punzadas sonoras (Podcast. Live episode)
Pau Luque
Invitado de HonorBorn in Barcelona in 1982, he has lived in Mexico City since 2014. He trained as a legal philosopher at the University of Genoa (Italy) and as a humanist at Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona (Spain). In 2020, he published Las cosas como son y otras fantasías (Anagrama Argumentos), a literary essay offering a way out of the deadlock that has constrained the relationship between art and morality in the 21st century. He argues that neither superficial moralism, which demands art to be correct, nor the moral indifference promoted by a misunderstood liberalism captures the essence of ethics or its relation to artistic impulse. Luque suggests that imperfect moral virtues, literary or narrative imagination, and worldly vicissitudes are the ethical sources from which any work with something human to say draws.
In collaboration with Natalia Carrillo, he published Hipocondría moral (Nuevos cuadernos Anagrama) in 2022, where they identify a strange but omnipresent contemporary phenomenon: we feel guilt when we are guilty, but especially when we are not. In this essay, they critique the contemporary choice (or imposition) of guilt as the primary emotion structuring our relationship with the world's calamities. They propose that it would be much more fruitful politically, morally, and even philosophically to replace guilt with responsibility.
With Ñu (Anagrama Narrativas hispánicas), published in 2024, Luque gives a new twist to genre hybridization, inventing the essay with characters. Real and fictional creatures wander and converse in Ñu about their lives, their ideas, love and friendship, and the unsettling possibility that what we call "solution" might be nothing more than an inevitable fantasy.
Other activities involving the participant:
Inaugural Talk: The Recovery of the Lost Home… That Perhaps We Don’t Want to Recover
Monday December 02
16:00 to 16:50
Pabellón de España, Expo Guadalajara
Spain, Guest of Honor
Guest of Honor Pavilion
Journeys. Tribute to Carmen Martín Gaite
Spain, Guest of Honor
Guest of Honor Pavilion
Journeys. Tribute to Carmen Martín Gaite
The year 2025 will mark the centenary of the birth of Carmen Martín Gaite (1925-2000), the Salamanca native who was one of the most outstanding and renowned voices of Spanish literature. In 1978, she was the first woman to receive the National Fiction Award for Back Room, a prize she received again in 1994 for her work as a whole. In 1988, she shared the Prince of Asturias Award for Literature with poet José Valente. Her vocation for writing led her to explore all literary genres: fiction, non-fiction, poetry, story, drama, children's literature, literary criticism, translation and screenplays for cinema and television. But it was her non-novel phase that introduced her to the public at large. Her long career began in the post-war period and continued through the Transition to reach the 90s, with Spain as a full-fledged democracy. Behind the Curtains, Back Room, Caperucita en Manhattan, Variable Cloud variable and Los parentescos, her last and unfinished novel, are some of the unforgettable books for readers and writers of all generations who turned Carmen Martín Gaite into a leading author both inside and outside Spain. Her literature was never detached from reality, from the political, social and existential changes that writers of the so-called Generation of '50 experienced, who, under the gray and precarious skies of the Franco dictatorship, shared stories and common desires. "Literature is like a quenching of that thirst for expression that life sometimes denies us," she once declared. And it is precisely of that quenching, of that thirst for expression that her words speak. Of loneliness, of the impossibility of communication, but also of friendship; of women prisoners in physical and emotional spaces in constant search for interlocutors and escape routes that reaffirm their identity and release them from the parameters set by a patriarchal society will be some of the topics that will be addressed in this discussion around the life and vocation to literature of an exceptional author.
Participants: María Folguera, Azahara Alonso
Moderator: Inés Martín Rodrigo
María Folguera
Invitado de Honor(Madrid, 1984) She is a writer and cultural manager. She is currently preparing her fourth novel with a grant for literary creation from the Ministry of Culture. In 2024, she is premiering the stage adaptation of El cuarto de atrás by Carmen Martín Gaite. Other drama projects include Marcela:una canción de Cervantes alongside Leticia Dolera and Celia Freijeiro (2024, on tour), Picasso (rey, monstruo y payaso) for Rhum & Cia (2023), Humanidad:cinco visiones de Goya para circo (2023, Teatro Circo Price) and Safo with Christina Rosenvinge and Marta Pazos (2022). She directs and wrote the tow-piece work Elena Fortún [Sendero Fortún] for the National Drama Center (CDN) (2019-2020) and La guerra según Santa Teresa, which premiered at the Autumn Festival in Madrid in 2018.
She is the author of the novels Hermana.(Placer) (2021, Alianza), Los primeros días de Pompeya (2016, Caballo de Troya) and Sin juicio (2001, Premio Arte Joven de la Comunidad de Madrid; 2002, Visor). She coordinated the anthology Tranquilas.Historias para ir solas por la noche (2019, Lumen), for which she wrote the prologue and a story. She has appeared in various fiction anthologies: (h)amor9 amigas (2024, Continta Me Tienes), Última temporada (2013, Lengua de Trapo) and Bajo treinta (2013, Salto de página).
She received the Premio Valle-Inclán de Textos Teatrales in 2008 for Hilo debajo del agua and the CajaMadrid Narrative Prize in 2011 for Verlaine hijo. She studied Stage Direction at the Real Escuela Superior de Arte Dramático (RESAD) and Theory of Literature at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. From 2018 to 2023, she served as the artistic director of Teatro Circo Price in Madrid. Since 2024, she has been an advisor for projects at the Instituto Nacional de las Artes Escénicas y de la Música (INAEM), the Centro de Documentación de las Artes Escénicas y de la Música (CDAEM) and Acción Cultural Española (AC/E).
Other activities involving the participant:
"I'm here for you, no matter what." Friendship
Azahara Alonso
Invitado de Honor(Oviedo, 1988) has a degree in Philosophy. She has published the book of aphorisms Bajas presiones (Trea, 2016), the poetry book Gestar un tópico (RIL, 2020) and the novel Gozo (Siruela, 2023), recognized as the Best Non-Fiction Book of 2023 by the Spanish Confederation of Guilds and Associations of Booksellers.
She has featured in several anthologies, including Bajo el signo de Atenea (Renacimiento, 2017), El gran libro de Satán (Blackie Books, 2021) and El gran libro de los pájaros (Blackie Books, 2023).
She was the coordinator of the Hotel Kafka writing school, and the cultural manager at the José Hierro Poetry Center Foundation. She also coordinated Ámbito cultural, published by El Corte Inglés, she was part of the editorial board of the magazine Nayagua, and she was the copy editor of the Diario Kafka cultural supplement at eldiario.es. She proofreads and writes literary criticism and teaches writing classes.
Other activities involving the participant:
Free time with a tourist personality
Inés Martín Rodrigo
Invitado de Honor(Madrid, 1983) is a writer and journalist. In 2022, she won the Nadal Prize with the novel Las formas del querer, which also received the Premio de la Crítica de Madrid. She is also the author of the biographical fiction Azules son las horas (2016), the anthology of interviews with women writers Una habitación compartida (2020), the children's story Giselle (2020), and the essay Una homosexualidad propia (2023).
In 2019, she was included in the “10 de 30” program of the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID), which every year recognizes the best Spanish writers under 40 years old. For 14 years she worked for the Culture section of the ABC newspaper and in June 2022, she joined the Prensa Ibérica group, where she is on the team of the literary supplement abril and writes opinion pieces.
Other activities involving the participant:
In no man's land: the place of war
Rain without ice, please: the world is thirsty
Free time with a tourist personality
Journeys. Tribute to Ana María Matute
Tuesday December 03
16:00 to 16:50
Pabellón de España, Expo Guadalajara
Spain, Guest of Honor
Guest of Honor Pavilion
Journeys. Silent time. Tribute to Luis Martín-Santos
Spain, Guest of Honor
Guest of Honor Pavilion
Journeys. Silent time. Tribute to Luis Martín-Santos
This year marks the centenary of the birth of the writer, psychiatrist and anti-Franco militant Luis Martín-Santos (1924-1964), who with his novel Time of silence (Seix-Barral, 1962) revolutionized the literature of the time, redefining the literary landscape. Applauded by the critics of the time on both sides of the Atlantic and currently translated into 26 languages, with film and play adaptations, it has become a contemporary classic. Martín-Santos was part of the Generation of '50, along with Juan García Hortelano, Carmen Martín Gaite, Juan Benet, Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio, Josefina Aldecoa... with whom he shared friendships, discussions and concerns during his formative years in Madrid before settling professionally in San Sebastián. However, his early death at the age of 39 almost made the writer the author of only one work. Libertad, temporalidad y transferencia del psicoanálisis existencial (Seix-Barral, 1964), Apólogos y otros otras prosas inéditas (Seix-Barral, 1970) and the unfinished novel Tiempo de destrucción (Seix-Barral, 1975) were published after his death. Recently, to mark the centenary of his birth, an effort was made to recover his previously published work Tiempo de destrucción (Galaxia Gutenberg, 2022) and his extensive unpublished material, the short story El amanecer podrido (Galaxia Gutenberg, 2018), Narrativa breve (Galaxia Gutenberg, 2024), novel, theater, poetry and essay, which will paint a more complete picture of his writing. In addition to various official initiatives supported by Spain's Ministry of Culture, Jordi Soler, Luis Martín-Santos Laffon and Àngels Gregori will discuss the man and his works; and actress Lidia Otón will read a few paragraphs from Tiempo de destrucción. "I wish my storytelling could have a musical rhythm to it."
Participants: Luis Martín-Santos Laffón, Jordi Soler
Moderator: Àngels Gregori
Luis Martín-Santos Laffón
Invitado de Honor(San Sebastián, 1958) spent his childhood and adolescence in San Sebastián. At the age of 18, he moved to Barcelona to study Information Sciences at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), which he did not complete. A tireless adventurer and traveler, he has lived in various countries. After returning to Spain, he has worked since 1998 as a translator, editor and freelance literary agent specializing in the field of non-fiction, self-help, spirituality and new trends. Among others, he has presented in Spanish the work of the mystic Osho, whose rights have been managed by important publishers such as Gaia Ediciones, Debate, Grupo Planeta and Grupo Penguin Random House.
He has worked with the press and other media on these topics, and as an editorial advisor on the OSHO multimedia collection: Biblioteca del Bienestar Emocional (2008, Planeta De Agostini). With considerable experience spanning over two decades attending international events such as the Frankfurt Fair and the London Book Fair, he has gained know-how in the sale of rights and in establishing a commercial network in Spanish-speaking countries.
Since 2004, he has managed the copyrights of his father, the writer Luis Martín-Santos (©Herederos de Luis Martín-Santos), and jointly with his siblings and in collaboration with various official, cultural and academic bodies in the country, he is coordinating events related to the celebration of the centenary of the birth of Luis Martín-Santos over the course of 2024.
He edited and published Condenada belleza del mundo by Luis Martín-Santos (2004, Seix-Barral), and he edited and wrote the prologue of the first edition in Spanish of Despierta.Una vida del Buda by Jack Kerouac (2014, Hapi Books).
He co-edited Luis Martín-Santos, tiempo de libertad with Julià Guillamón and Rocío Martín-Santos (2024, Galaxia Gutenberg).
Jordi Soler
Born in 1963 in La Portuguesa, a community of Catalan Republican exiles who founded a coffee plantation in the jungle of Veracruz, Mexico. La Portuguesa, a primitive enclave in the jungle, where the forces of nature devour each other, is the literary territory where a substantial part of its work is based.
He has written 14 novels, translated into several languages: Bocafloja (1994), La corsaria (1996), Nueve Aquitania (1999), La mujer que tenía los pies feos (2001), Los rojos de ultramar (2004), La última hora del último día (2007), La fiesta del oso (2009), Diles que son cadáveres (2011), Restos humanos (2013), Ese príncipe que fui (2015), El cuerpo eléctrico (2017), Usos rudimentarios de la selva (2018), Los hijos del volcán (2022), En el reino del toro sagrado (2024).
His novels have garnered various distinction, including the Prix Littéraire des Jeunes Européens (2012) and the Prix Jean-Morer (2020), in France; the Iberoamericano AsiCom-University of Oviedo Award (2014) in Spain, and the Poeta de América Carlos Pellicer Cámara Award (2021) in Mexico.
He is also the author of two poetry books and four non-fiction books: Ensayos bárbaros (2015), Mapa secreto del bosque (2019), La orilla celeste del agua (2021) and La resquebrajadura (2023).
Between 2000 and 2003, he was the cultural attaché at the Mexican Embassy in Dublin. He writes for the Mexican newspaper Milenio and the Spanish newspaper El País. He lives in Barcelona, the city his family left after the Spanish Civil War, and he is a Knight of the Irish Order of Finnegans.
Other activities involving the participant:
Once upon a time was love
Spanish exile in Mexico
Àngels Gregori
Invitado de Honor(Oliva, Valencia, 1985)
She is a poet and cultural manager. Her works include Bambolines; Quan els grans arbres cauen; New York, Nabokov & Bicicletes; Quan érem divendres and Jazz, for which she has received the awards Amadeu Oller, Alfons el Magnànim, Jocs Florals de Barcelona, Ausiàs March and Vicent Andrés Estellés. In 2019, she won the award Premio de la Crítica from Valencian writers and, in 2024, the Cavall Verd-Josep M. Llompart Award for the best book of the year in Catalan.
She directed Barcelona Poetry, the Sant Cugat Poetry Festival, the Lleida Poetry Festival, the meetings of the Casa Antonio Machado de Rocafort and the Mediterranean Writers' Meetings. From its creation in 2019 until 2023, she headed the Francisco Brines Foundation. In 2005, she created Poefesta, the Oliva Poetry Festival, which over the years has received the awards Premio de Fomento de la Lectura de la Fundació Bromera and Premio Difusión de la Literatura de la Associació d’Escriptors en Llengua Catalana (AELC). In 2024, she was appointed Commissioner of the Year of Estellés, in celebration of the centenary of the Valencian poet, and since 2021 she has been a member of the Valencian Language Academy.
Other activities involving the participant:
Journeys. Tribute to Vicent Andrés Estellés
Meetings (and misunderstandings). Luis Cernuda y Xavier Villaurrutia
On literature in other formats. Modern Valencian poetry. Recital and musical performance
Tuesday December 03
20:00 to 20:50
Pabellón de España, Expo Guadalajara
Spain, Guest of Honor
Guest of Honor Pavilion
Crossroads. Humor, illustration and literature
Spain, Guest of Honor
Guest of Honor Pavilion
Crossroads. Humor, illustration and literature
The exercise of humor is an act of rebellion; a beneficial catharsis for the risorius muscle that provides levity when serious and solemn problems abound. Comedy is a complex matter for those who create using words or images. It seems paradoxical how, despite living in societies that constantly chant slogans in defense of freedom of expression, a "cancel culture" has arisen. Its guardians judge which values are correct, and they define the red lines of what can and cannot be said. The phenomenon affects all areas, including cultural content, and with it the humor, parody, caricature or irony that is described with words or told with images. What characteristics define the morphology of humor both in fiction and illustration? Do they overlap in any way? How are they different? Is any subject off limits to comedy? These are some of the issues that Luci Gutiérrez and Juan Pablo Villalobos will cover.
Luci Gutiérrez is a cartoonist and illustrator, the 2023 National Illustration Award winner and a benchmark in Spain and beyond. Author of mastheads, comic strips, and illustrations in various national and international media, she has also written over a dozen books.
Juan Pablo Villalobos won the 2016 Herralde Prize, and his works have been translated into more than a dozen languages. An explorer of humor in the history of literature, he has pushed corrosive humor to its limit. His casual voice demystifies the image of the writer, as well as themes as intricate as death, disease and organized crime.
Participants: Luci Gutiérrez, Juan Pablo Villalobos
Moderator: Jesús Ruiz Mantilla
Luci Gutiérrez
Invitado de Honor(Barcelona, 1977), after finishing her studies in illustration at the Escuela Massana in Barcelona in 2001, has worked in fields as diverse as advertising, press and books.
In 2007, she lived for a time in New York. She didn't quite master English, but she drew and wrote enough to write English Is Not Easy, a book for learning it and of which many editions have been made all over the world.
In 2019, she published Manual de autodefensa, her second book as sole author, which makes it clear that life, like English, is not easy.
She has also illustrated Las mujeres y los hombres, which won a prize at the Bologna Fair in 2016, and other titles by the Italian publishing firm Orecchio Acerbo, such as L'albergo delle fiabe, Miss Galassia and La valigia delle carabattole.
Her stay in America also resulted in regular collaborations with The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and The New Yorker, where she illustrates the "Shouts & Murmurs" section weekly.
More recently, her work has been recognized with the Society of Illustrators Award in New York; the Gràffica Award, presented by design and visual communication professionals in Spain, and in 2023, she received the National Illustration Award from the Ministry of Culture.
Other activities involving the participant:
Social Context: Album and Comic as Engines of Change
Juan Pablo Villalobos
(Guadalajara, Jalisco, 1973) is the author of the novels Down the Rabbit Hole, Si viviéramos en un lugar normal, I’ll Sell You a Dog, I Don’t Expect Anyone to Believe Me (Premio Herralde de Novela award 2016), Invasion of the spirit people, Peluquería y letras and El pasado anda atrás de nosotros. He has also published the chronicle The other side: stories of Central American teen refugees who dream of crossing the border and the children's novel Un viaje cósmico a Puerto Ficción.
His books have been translated into more than 15 languages. His novel I Don’t Expect Anyone to Believe Me was adapted for the cinema by Fernando Frías de la Parra, and Down the Rabbit Hole by Manolo Caro.
He teaches writing at Pompeu Fabra University and Literature and Cultural Studies at the Escuela Superior de Cine y Audiovisuals de Cataluña.
He has lived outside Mexico since 2003. He currently resides in Barcelona, where he teaches literary workshops in his own space.
Other activities involving the participant:
In the lost footsteps of the family
Jesús Ruiz Mantilla
Invitado de Honor(Santander, 1965) is a writer. Throughout his career, he has worked in fiction, non-fiction and poetry. He is the author of the novels Los ojos no ven; Preludio; Yo, Farinelli, el capón; Gordo (Sent Soví Award in 2005); Ahogada en llamas; La cáscara amarga; Hotel Transition (Fernando Quiñones Novel Award in 2015); El encuentro and Papel. In other genres, he has written Placer contra placer, Contar la música, and Divos, which reflect his journey as a music journalist over three decades for the newspaper El País, and Al día (Galaxia Gutenberg), a poetic experiment that blends a diary with poems drawn from everyday experiences reflected in the diary entries. For El País, he has spent most of his career in journalism in the Culture sections, or in the Babelia and El País Semanal supplements. He has also collaborated with the “The Window” and “Today” radio programs on Cadena Ser.
He is a professor in the CEU's Master's in Cultural Journalism, at the El País school, and he has taught university courses in Spain, Latin America and the United States. As a cultural manager, he is the artistic director of the Eñe festivals in Madrid and Málaga; of the Festival Internacional de Literatura en Español (FILE) in Extremadura and Murcia, and in Fronteras in Valencia, where he mixes musicians with writers. In addition, he is part of the team behind Creadores, a documentary series conceived by Alberto Anaut for La Fábrica, the leading cultural management company in Spain, of which he is a member of the executive team. The series is produced by Amazon, Radio Televisión Española (RTVE), and the Fundación La Caixa, and features ten-hour interviews with various artists from the Spanish-speaking world.
Other activities involving the participant:
With the past at our heels
Once upon a time was love
The labyrinth of intrigue
Tuesday December 03
19:00 to 19:50
Pabellón de España, Expo Guadalajara
Spain, Guest of Honor
Guest of Honor Pavilion
Journeys. Tribute to Vicent Andrés Estellés
Spain, Guest of Honor
Guest of Honor Pavilion
Journeys. Tribute to Vicent Andrés Estellés
Vicent Andrés Estellés (Burjassot, 1924 - Valencia, 1993) was a prominent poet and journalist, considered one of the main innovators of contemporary Valencian poetry and the most relevant since Ausiàs March, according to writer Joan Fuster.
This year marks the centenary of his birth, and many institutions, including the Spanish Ministry of Culture, have joined the commemoration by organizing various events that have turned the poet into a cultural ambassador in a multilingual Spain.
At this poetry event, Josep Ballester, Vicent Berenguer, Aina Garcia Carbó and Àngels Gregori will reveal the value of his immeasurable literary work by reading some of his poems.
The singer-songwriter Pau Alabos will close the event by performing a selection of musical poems.
Participants: Aina García Carbó, Àngels Gregori, Josep Ballester i Roca, Vicent Berenguer, Pau Alabajos
Aina García Carbó
Invitado de Honor(Castelló de la Plana, 1993) She is a poet, writer, and rhapsodist, as well as a preschool teacher. She has a Master's in Children's and Young Adult Literature and Books (Banco del Libro de Venezuela - Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona).
Her poetic work includes titles such as Rere la paraula (Onada Edicions, 2015), El cor heretge (2019, Bromera; Premi Alfons el Magnànim; Premi València Nova de Poesia), Crònicade la cadència (2020, Vincle Editorial; Premi Teodor Llorente de Poesia) and El vast domini (2023, Bromera; PremiCiutat d’Elx de Poesia); the children's poetry books Malifetes satisfetes (2021, Antana Editorial) and Quin mestratge, ser salvatge! (2024, Edelvidas), and also the selection and introduction of the poetic anthology of Isabel-Clara Simó El desig és foc i és gel, published by Tándem (2023). She was a finalist for the Premio de Poesía Salvador Iborra.
In addition to poetry, she has worked in other genres and forms, such as essay writing in the collective book Nosaltres les fusterianes (2017, Edicions 3i4) and Nosaltres els fusterians (2017, Perifèric Edicions). She has also ventured into narrative with Les detectives i el banquet de carxofa (2018, Fundación Bromera).
She has participated in numerous festivals and events, performing as a rhapsodist and reciting both her own work and that of other authors in various locations across Catalan-speaking territory.
Other activities involving the participant:
On literature in other formats. Modern Valencian poetry. Recital and musical performance
Àngels Gregori
Invitado de Honor(Oliva, Valencia, 1985)
She is a poet and cultural manager. Her works include Bambolines; Quan els grans arbres cauen; New York, Nabokov & Bicicletes; Quan érem divendres and Jazz, for which she has received the awards Amadeu Oller, Alfons el Magnànim, Jocs Florals de Barcelona, Ausiàs March and Vicent Andrés Estellés. In 2019, she won the award Premio de la Crítica from Valencian writers and, in 2024, the Cavall Verd-Josep M. Llompart Award for the best book of the year in Catalan.
She directed Barcelona Poetry, the Sant Cugat Poetry Festival, the Lleida Poetry Festival, the meetings of the Casa Antonio Machado de Rocafort and the Mediterranean Writers' Meetings. From its creation in 2019 until 2023, she headed the Francisco Brines Foundation. In 2005, she created Poefesta, the Oliva Poetry Festival, which over the years has received the awards Premio de Fomento de la Lectura de la Fundació Bromera and Premio Difusión de la Literatura de la Associació d’Escriptors en Llengua Catalana (AELC). In 2024, she was appointed Commissioner of the Year of Estellés, in celebration of the centenary of the Valencian poet, and since 2021 she has been a member of the Valencian Language Academy.
Other activities involving the participant:
Journeys. Silent time. Tribute to Luis Martín-Santos
Meetings (and misunderstandings). Luis Cernuda y Xavier Villaurrutia
On literature in other formats. Modern Valencian poetry. Recital and musical performance
Josep Ballester i Roca
Invitado de HonorWriter and professor in the Department of Language and Literature Teaching at the Universitat de València.
He has published the following poetry books: Passadís voraç del silenci (1985), Oasi (1989), Tatuatge (1989), L’holandés errant (1994), La mar (1997), L’odi (2005), Les muses inquietants (2006), A la intempèrie (2017) and Llibre dels somnis (2022).
His literary studies and essays include: Joan Fuster: una aventura lírica (1990), Temps de quarantena. Cultura i societat a la postguerra (1992 y 2006), La poesia catalana de postguerra al País Valencià (1995), L’educació literària (1999 y 2007), La traïció d’Ariadna (2001), La mirada de Xahrazad (2006), L’encantador de serps (2009 and 2024), Les ulleres de Bartleby (2011), Diàspores. Paraules i geografies d’exili (2017), Atles d’aigua i de pedra. Cartografies de la creació (2019) and Fuster instantani (2022).
He has also written the novel El col·leccionista de fades (2009).
His awards include the Ausiàs March, Ciutat de Palma, Vicent Andrés Estellés de los Premios Octubre, Premio de la Crítica dels Escriptors Valencians, Ciutat d’Alzira de novela, Josep Vallverdú de ensayo, Maria Mercè Marçal de poesía, and the Premio de la Generalitat Valenciana al mejor libro editado.
His work has been translated into English, Hungarian, Spanish, French and Chinese.
Other activities involving the participant:
On literature in other formats. Modern Valencian poetry. Recital and musical performance
Vicent Berenguer
Invitado de Honor(Banyeres de Mariola, Alicante, 1955) is a poet in Catalan, translator, and director of the poetry collections "Edicions de la Guerra" (1986-2016) and, currently, "Poesia" at the Institució Alfons el Magnànim.
He has published the poetry volumes: La terra interior (1989), Imitació de la soledat (1990; Premio Roís de Corella 1989), L’home no confia en la ciutat (1996), La terra interior i altres poemes (2011) and Paradís en perill (2023).
As a translator from Galician to Catalan, he has published Nimbes (1997) by Xosé María Díaz Castro; from Portuguese Matèria solar (1987) by Eugenio de Andrade; El cas Morel (1994) by Rubem Fonseca; Lisbon. Llibre de bord. Veus, mirades, records (2008) by José Cardoso Pires; Poesia completa. Cartes a Fernando Pessoa (2017) by Mário de Sá-Carneiro, and Poemes (2021) by Alexandre O’Neill; and from Spanish: Libro de los minutos y otros poemas (2009) by Gemma Gorga.
In the genre of children's theater, he co-published La llegenda del drac i la princesa (1997) with Jordi Garcia Vilar.
Other activities involving the participant:
On literature in other formats. Modern Valencian poetry. Recital and musical performance
Pau Alabajos
Invitado de Honor(Torrent, 1982) is a Valencian singer who has released nine records since his debut in 2002. His artistic career has always been linked to the poetry of Vicent Andrés Estellés. He has recorded three CDs with songs inspired by the verses of the poet from Burjassot: Pau Alabajos diu Mural del País Valencià de Vicent Andrés Estellés (2013, Bureo Músicas), Ciutat a cau d’orella (2018, Bureo Músicas) and Una granota viva a la butxaca (2024, RGB Apoyos). He also holds a degree in Catalan Philology from the Universitat de València and teaches high school and university courses on Nova Cançó and the music poetry of Vicent Andrés Estellés and other poets such as Miquel Martí i Pol, Maria Mercè Marçal, Salvador Espriu, Marc Granell, Bartomeu Rosselló-Pòrcel and Joan Margarit.
In the literary field, Pau Alabajos has published two plays, Hotel Fontana (2019, Bromera) and El tocadiscos de Joan Fuster (2022, Bromera). In 2024, to mark the centenary of the birth of the baker's son, he premiered a theatrical musical show entitled Arbres de pols, inspired by a poem of the same name in Llibre de Meravelles, and he also wrote the first biography of the author of “Els amants,” published by the publishing house Siembra and which is now in its third edition, Vicent Andrés Estellés.La veu d’un poble.
Other activities involving the participant:
On literature in other formats. Modern Valencian poetry. Recital and musical performance
Tuesday December 03
17:00 to 17:50
Pabellón de España, Expo Guadalajara
Spain, Guest of Honor
Guest of Honor Pavilion
Journeys. Mexico: memory of hospitality
Spain, Guest of Honor
Guest of Honor Pavilion
Journeys. Mexico: memory of hospitality
The experience of exile is the result of a heartbreaking and difficult situation. But then many other possibilities arise: rebuilding one's life, dialogue of identities, opening up new horizons. From a cultural perspective, with nostalgia, the bright consequences of this crossroads is also worth considering. Mexico and Spain, history of a hospitality.
Participants: Luis García Montero, Jordi Gracia
Luis García Montero
Invitado de Honor(Granada, 1958) has been the director of the Instituto Cervantes since 2018. He is a professor of Spanish Literature at the University of Granada.
The awards he has received include: Premio Adonáis (1982), Premio Nacional de Literatura (1994), Premio Nacional de la Crítica (2003), Premio del Gremio de Libreros de Madrid (2009), Premio Poetas del Mundo Latino (2010, México), Premio Paralelo 0 (2018, Ecuador), Golden Antelope International Poetry Prize (2021, China) and Premio Montale Fuori di Casa (2023, Italy).
His poetry books include Y ahora ya eres dueño del Puente de Brooklyn (1980), El jardín extranjero (1983), Habitaciones separadas (1980), Completamente viernes (1998), La intimidad de la serpiente (2003), Vista cansada (2008), A puerta cerrada (2017), No puedes ser así. Breve historia del mundo (2021), Un año y tres meses (2022) and Almudena (2024).
In non-fiction, he has published ¿Por qué no es útil la literatura? (1993, in collaboration with Antonio Muñoz Molina), Un lector llamado Federico García Lorca (2016), Las palabras rotas (2019) and La realidad de una esperanza. Galdós, la memoria y la poesía (2020), and critical editions of García Lorca (1992 y 2017), Alberti (1988), Carlos Barral (1997) and Luis Rosales (2005).
He is the author of the novels Impares, fila 13 (written with Felipe Benítez Reyes); Mañana no será lo que Dios quiera (2009), a novelized biography of Ángel González; No me cuentes tu vida (2012) and Someone speaks your name (2014).
He has studied the work of authors such as Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, Rosalía de Castro, Rafael Alberti, Federico García Lorca, Luis Rosales, Rubén Bonifaz Nuño, Francisco Ayala and José Emilio Pacheco. He also has honorary degrees from the universities of San Agustín and Ricardo Palma (Peru), Pontificia Católica Universidad de Valparaíso (Chile) and Córdoba (Argentina), and is an honorary professor at the University of Mar del Plata (Argentina).
He recently received the Premio Internacional Carlos Fuentes a la Creación Literaria (2024) in the Spanish Language, awarded by the Secretariat of Culture and the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).
Other activities involving the participant:
Writing goodbye
"Cry to Rome", a poem by Federico García Lorca. Published in native languages
Spanish in the world
Jordi Gracia
Invitado de Honor(Barcelona, 1965)
He is an essayist, professor of Spanish Literature at the Universidad de Barcelona, deputy to the director of El País and co-director of TintaLibre. He has written several books on the intellectual and literary history of Spain in the 20th century, a biography of Cervantes titled Miguel de Cervantes.La conquista de la ironía (2016), and one of José Ortega y Gasset in the collection of biographies “Españoles eminentes”. In 2004, he received the Premio Anagrama de Ensayo for La resistencia silenciosa. Fascismo y cultura en España, where he addressed, among other topics, how the Spanish exile is perceived from within. With A la intemperie. Exilio y cultura en España (2010), he reconstructs, through letters, books, and documents dating from 1939, the behaviors and emotions of Spanish exiles who adapted to their new environments.
He has also dedicated works to Dionisio Ridruejo, including La vida rescatada de Dionisio Ridruejo. Other notable publications include Javier Pradera o el poder de la izquierda.Medio siglo de cultura democrática, El intelectual melancólico. Un panfleto and Contra la izquierda. Para seguir siendo de izquierdas en el siglo XXI.
Other activities involving the participant:
Crossroads. Journalism and literature
Tuesday December 03
10:00 to 10:50
Pabellón de España, Expo Guadalajara
Spain, Guest of Honor
Guest of Honor Pavilion
On literature in other formats. Modern Valencian poetry. Recital and musical performance
Spain, Guest of Honor
Guest of Honor Pavilion
On literature in other formats. Modern Valencian poetry. Recital and musical performance
Since the mid-20th century, Valencian literature in Catalan has experienced a remarkable revival. In poetry, the pioneers of the post-war period, such as Vicent Andrés Estellés, paved the way for the Generation of '70, which includes important voices such as Josep Piera, Marc Granell, Jaume Pérez Montaner, Gaspar Jaén i Urban, Joan Navarro, Pere Bessó, and others. Poetic production has now increased, as multiple writers have appeared on the scene.
In this recital, four poets will present an intergenerational vision of today's Valencian poetry: Josep Ballester (1961), Vicent Berenguer (1955), Aina Garcia Carbó (1993) and Àngels Gregori (1985).
The singer-songwriter Pau Alabajos will close the event by performing some of his musical poems.
Participants: Josep Ballester i Roca, Vicent Berenguer, Aina García Carbó, Àngels Gregori, Pau Alabajos
Josep Ballester i Roca
Invitado de HonorWriter and professor in the Department of Language and Literature Teaching at the Universitat de València.
He has published the following poetry books: Passadís voraç del silenci (1985), Oasi (1989), Tatuatge (1989), L’holandés errant (1994), La mar (1997), L’odi (2005), Les muses inquietants (2006), A la intempèrie (2017) and Llibre dels somnis (2022).
His literary studies and essays include: Joan Fuster: una aventura lírica (1990), Temps de quarantena. Cultura i societat a la postguerra (1992 y 2006), La poesia catalana de postguerra al País Valencià (1995), L’educació literària (1999 y 2007), La traïció d’Ariadna (2001), La mirada de Xahrazad (2006), L’encantador de serps (2009 and 2024), Les ulleres de Bartleby (2011), Diàspores. Paraules i geografies d’exili (2017), Atles d’aigua i de pedra. Cartografies de la creació (2019) and Fuster instantani (2022).
He has also written the novel El col·leccionista de fades (2009).
His awards include the Ausiàs March, Ciutat de Palma, Vicent Andrés Estellés de los Premios Octubre, Premio de la Crítica dels Escriptors Valencians, Ciutat d’Alzira de novela, Josep Vallverdú de ensayo, Maria Mercè Marçal de poesía, and the Premio de la Generalitat Valenciana al mejor libro editado.
His work has been translated into English, Hungarian, Spanish, French and Chinese.
Other activities involving the participant:
Journeys. Tribute to Vicent Andrés Estellés
Vicent Berenguer
Invitado de Honor(Banyeres de Mariola, Alicante, 1955) is a poet in Catalan, translator, and director of the poetry collections "Edicions de la Guerra" (1986-2016) and, currently, "Poesia" at the Institució Alfons el Magnànim.
He has published the poetry volumes: La terra interior (1989), Imitació de la soledat (1990; Premio Roís de Corella 1989), L’home no confia en la ciutat (1996), La terra interior i altres poemes (2011) and Paradís en perill (2023).
As a translator from Galician to Catalan, he has published Nimbes (1997) by Xosé María Díaz Castro; from Portuguese Matèria solar (1987) by Eugenio de Andrade; El cas Morel (1994) by Rubem Fonseca; Lisbon. Llibre de bord. Veus, mirades, records (2008) by José Cardoso Pires; Poesia completa. Cartes a Fernando Pessoa (2017) by Mário de Sá-Carneiro, and Poemes (2021) by Alexandre O’Neill; and from Spanish: Libro de los minutos y otros poemas (2009) by Gemma Gorga.
In the genre of children's theater, he co-published La llegenda del drac i la princesa (1997) with Jordi Garcia Vilar.
Other activities involving the participant:
Journeys. Tribute to Vicent Andrés Estellés
Aina García Carbó
Invitado de Honor(Castelló de la Plana, 1993) She is a poet, writer, and rhapsodist, as well as a preschool teacher. She has a Master's in Children's and Young Adult Literature and Books (Banco del Libro de Venezuela - Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona).
Her poetic work includes titles such as Rere la paraula (Onada Edicions, 2015), El cor heretge (2019, Bromera; Premi Alfons el Magnànim; Premi València Nova de Poesia), Crònicade la cadència (2020, Vincle Editorial; Premi Teodor Llorente de Poesia) and El vast domini (2023, Bromera; PremiCiutat d’Elx de Poesia); the children's poetry books Malifetes satisfetes (2021, Antana Editorial) and Quin mestratge, ser salvatge! (2024, Edelvidas), and also the selection and introduction of the poetic anthology of Isabel-Clara Simó El desig és foc i és gel, published by Tándem (2023). She was a finalist for the Premio de Poesía Salvador Iborra.
In addition to poetry, she has worked in other genres and forms, such as essay writing in the collective book Nosaltres les fusterianes (2017, Edicions 3i4) and Nosaltres els fusterians (2017, Perifèric Edicions). She has also ventured into narrative with Les detectives i el banquet de carxofa (2018, Fundación Bromera).
She has participated in numerous festivals and events, performing as a rhapsodist and reciting both her own work and that of other authors in various locations across Catalan-speaking territory.
Other activities involving the participant:
Journeys. Tribute to Vicent Andrés Estellés
Àngels Gregori
Invitado de Honor(Oliva, Valencia, 1985)
She is a poet and cultural manager. Her works include Bambolines; Quan els grans arbres cauen; New York, Nabokov & Bicicletes; Quan érem divendres and Jazz, for which she has received the awards Amadeu Oller, Alfons el Magnànim, Jocs Florals de Barcelona, Ausiàs March and Vicent Andrés Estellés. In 2019, she won the award Premio de la Crítica from Valencian writers and, in 2024, the Cavall Verd-Josep M. Llompart Award for the best book of the year in Catalan.
She directed Barcelona Poetry, the Sant Cugat Poetry Festival, the Lleida Poetry Festival, the meetings of the Casa Antonio Machado de Rocafort and the Mediterranean Writers' Meetings. From its creation in 2019 until 2023, she headed the Francisco Brines Foundation. In 2005, she created Poefesta, the Oliva Poetry Festival, which over the years has received the awards Premio de Fomento de la Lectura de la Fundació Bromera and Premio Difusión de la Literatura de la Associació d’Escriptors en Llengua Catalana (AELC). In 2024, she was appointed Commissioner of the Year of Estellés, in celebration of the centenary of the Valencian poet, and since 2021 she has been a member of the Valencian Language Academy.
Other activities involving the participant:
Journeys. Silent time. Tribute to Luis Martín-Santos
Journeys. Tribute to Vicent Andrés Estellés
Meetings (and misunderstandings). Luis Cernuda y Xavier Villaurrutia
Pau Alabajos
Invitado de Honor(Torrent, 1982) is a Valencian singer who has released nine records since his debut in 2002. His artistic career has always been linked to the poetry of Vicent Andrés Estellés. He has recorded three CDs with songs inspired by the verses of the poet from Burjassot: Pau Alabajos diu Mural del País Valencià de Vicent Andrés Estellés (2013, Bureo Músicas), Ciutat a cau d’orella (2018, Bureo Músicas) and Una granota viva a la butxaca (2024, RGB Apoyos). He also holds a degree in Catalan Philology from the Universitat de València and teaches high school and university courses on Nova Cançó and the music poetry of Vicent Andrés Estellés and other poets such as Miquel Martí i Pol, Maria Mercè Marçal, Salvador Espriu, Marc Granell, Bartomeu Rosselló-Pòrcel and Joan Margarit.
In the literary field, Pau Alabajos has published two plays, Hotel Fontana (2019, Bromera) and El tocadiscos de Joan Fuster (2022, Bromera). In 2024, to mark the centenary of the birth of the baker's son, he premiered a theatrical musical show entitled Arbres de pols, inspired by a poem of the same name in Llibre de Meravelles, and he also wrote the first biography of the author of “Els amants,” published by the publishing house Siembra and which is now in its third edition, Vicent Andrés Estellés.La veu d’un poble.
Other activities involving the participant:
Journeys. Tribute to Vicent Andrés Estellés
Wednesday December 04
14:00 to 14:50
Pabellón de España, Expo Guadalajara
Spain, Guest of Honor
Guest of Honor Pavilion
On literature in other formats. A two-way journey. Philosophy. Punzadas Sonoras (Podcast. Live episode)
Spain, Guest of Honor
Guest of Honor Pavilion
On literature in other formats. A two-way journey. Philosophy. Punzadas Sonoras (Podcast. Live episode)
In this live episode of Punzada Sonoras (podcast by Radio Primavera Sound), philosophers Inés García and Paula Ducay will reflect on the various aspects behind the idea of a "path": philosophical, literary, political, poetic, etc. In order to think about philosophical paths and philosophy as a journey, they will resort to works such as Caminantes by Edgardo Scott, Wanderust by Rebeca Solnit, and Walking by Henry D. Thoreau. Is philosophy a one-way journey to the unknown? How can philosophical paths help us decipher or unravel what we are? They will also reflect on those literary paths that were forged through the Republican exile of Spaniards to Mexico, an outbound journey with no guarantee of return, as well as on the consequences for those who traveled them.
Participants: Inés García Hernáez, Paula Ducay
Inés García Hernáez
Invitado de HonorShe graduated in Philosophy from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM) and holds a Master’s in Applied Ethics and another Master’s in Cultural Management and Social Innovation, both from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM). She co-founded the cultural project "Punzadas" together with Paula Ducay, where they run the podcast "Punzadas sonoras" and organize various cultural activities. She is interested in researching topics such as spatial justice and rurality.
Other activities involving the participant:
On literature in other formats. A crossroads. Ethics and literature Punzadas Sonoras (Podcast. Live episode)
Onliterature in other formats. Love and other paths . Punzadas sonoras (Podcast. Live episode)
Paula Ducay
Invitado de HonorGraduated in Philosophy and holds a Master's in Publishing from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM). She co-founded the cultural project “Punzadas” alongside Inés García, where they direct the podcast “Punzadas sonoras” and organize various cultural activities. Since childhood, she has cultivated a passion and interest in the world of books and contributes professionally to its various branches as a writer, editor, and translator. In February 2024, she published her first novel, La ternura.
Other activities involving the participant:
On literature in other formats. A crossroads. Ethics and literature Punzadas Sonoras (Podcast. Live episode)
Onliterature in other formats. Love and other paths . Punzadas sonoras (Podcast. Live episode)
Wednesday December 04
16:00 to 16:50
Pabellón de España, Expo Guadalajara