Raúl Aceves

(Guadalajara, 1951)

Poeta, narrador y ensayista nacido en Guadalajara, Jalisco, Raúl Aceves ha forjado una obra vasta y múltiple que atraviesa la poesía, los aforismos, la minificción, el cuento, el ensayo y la traducción. Psicólogo de formación y profesor-investigador en la Universidad de Guadalajara, Aceves explora con su voz crítica y visionaria los símbolos, la naturaleza, el chamanismo y la etnopoética, construyendo un universo literario donde se entrecruzan lo mítico y lo contemporáneo.
Ha publicado libros emblemáticos como Cielo de las cosas devueltas (1982), Aforismos y desaforismos (1999), La mirada del camaleón (2002), Más allá del más acá (2008), La lotería del milagro (2014) Poesía y chamanismo (2017) y Por la sonora galería del aire (Salto Mortal, 2025). Su escritura ha sido recogida en numerosas antologías y revistas, consolidándolo como una de las voces más sólidas de la literatura mexicana contemporánea.
Colaborador habitual en medios como El Diario, El Informador, El Occidental y Tierra Adentro, su obra ha dialogado siempre con los grandes temas de la imaginación poética y crítica. Reconocido con el Premio Juegos Florales Amado Nervo (1995) y el Premio Jalisco a la trayectoria literaria (2020), Aceves encarna una tradición viva: la del poeta que observa, cuestiona y devuelve a sus lectores un lenguaje renovado y lleno de resonancias.
 

Yolanda Ramírez Michel

Poeta, narradora, ensayista, maestra, editora y promotora de lectura. Fundadora de Trithëmius Talleres Literarios y directora de publicaciones en la editorial Salto Mortal, ha dedicado su vida al estudio de los mitos, la literatura y la pedagogía de la palabra.

Fue becaria del Consejo Estatal para la Cultura y las Artes de Jalisco en 2011 y 2023, y en 2019 recibió el Doctorado Honoris Causa en Ciencias de la Educación por la Universidad Santander (UNISAN). Investigadora en mitología comparada, su trabajo vincula la literatura con la espiritualidad y la psicología simbólica.

Carlos Martínez-Assad

Sociólogo, historiador, escritor e investigador emérito de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), reconocido por su amplia trayectoria en el estudio de la historia regional, la cultura política y la vida urbana de México. Es egresado de la licenciatura en Sociología por la UNAM y doctor en Sociología por la Escuela de Altos Estudios en Ciencias Sociales de la Universidad de París, Francia.

A lo largo de su carrera ha formado a diversas generaciones de historiadores, dirigido numerosas tesis y contribuido significativamente al fortalecimiento de las ciencias sociales en el país. Fue director del Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales de la UNAM (1983-1989), periodo en el que impulsó la Revista Mexicana de Sociología y promovió la articulación académica con universidades de todo México.

Ha recibido distinciones como la Beca Guggenheim (1992), el Premio Universidad Nacional en el área de Ciencias Sociales (1997) y el reconocimiento Meritorious of Honor and Gratitude de la Universidad de Louaize, en Líbano. Es Investigador Emérito del Sistema Nacional de Investigadores.

Javier Cercas

Invitado de Honor

Javier Cercas is a Lecturer in Spanish Literature at the University of Girona, an honorary fellow of the University of Oxford and honorary lecturer at Diego Portales University in Chile. His work has been translated into more than thirty languages. His novels include The Motive, The Tenant, El vientre de la ballena (The Belly of the Whale), Soldiers of Salamis (The Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, Grinzane-Cavour Prize, Chilean Critics Prize, City of Barcelona Prize, Llibreter Prize, Salambó Prize, among others), The Speed of Light (Athens Prize for Literature, Archbishop Juan de San Clemente Prize, Fernando Lara Prize, ex aequo), The Anatomy of a Moment (National Narrative Prize, Terenci Moix International Prize, Mondello Città di Palermo Prize, Prix Jean Monnet, Radovan Galonja Prize), Outlaws (Prix Méditerranée Étranger, Correntes d’Escritas Prize, Mandarache Prize), The Impostor (Prix du Livre Européen, Isola d’Elba International Prize, Ceppo di Pistoia International Prize, Archbishop Juan de San Clemente Prize, Taofen Prize for Best Foreign Novel Published in China), Lord of All the Dead (Prix Malraux), Even the Darkest Night: Terra Alta I (Planeta Prize and Dagger Prize), Independence (Terra Alta II) and El castillo de Barbazul (Terra Alta III) (Bluebeard’s Castle [Terra Alta III]) (NordSud International Prize). He has also published several miscellaneous works – Una buena temporada (A Good Season), Relatos reales (Real Tales), La verdad de Agamenón (The Truth of Agamemnon), Formas de ocultarse (Ways of Hiding), No callar (Not Keeping Silent) and La aventura de escribir (The Adventure of Writing), as well as essays such as La obra literaria de Gonzalo Suárez (The Literary Work of Gonzalo Suárez) and El punto ciego (The Blind Spot).

Other activities involving the participant:

Talk
Fiction, Tension and Memory

Leonardo Padura

Licenciado en filología por la universidad de esta ciudad, ha trabajado como guionista, periodista y crítico. Es autor de las novelas La novela de mi vida, en torno a la figura del poeta José María Heredia, y El hombre que amaba a los perros, un éxito de repercusión internacional en el que reconstruye las vidas de Trotsky y Ramón Mercader.

Ha logrado el reconocimiento sobre todo por la serie de novelas policiacas protagonizadas por el detective Mario Conde: Pasado perfecto, Vientos de cuaresma, Máscaras, Paisaje de otoño, Adiós, Hemingway, La neblina del ayer y La cola de la serpiente, traducidas a numerosos idiomas y merecedoras de premios como el Café Gijón 1995, el Premio Hammett 1997, 1998 y 2005, el Premio de las Islas 2000, en Francia, y el Brigada 21.

Other activities involving the participant:

Km América raffle space + Barcelona's most Latin American festival

Marisol Schulz Manaut

Marisol Schulz Manaut is an editor, commentator, speaker, cultural journalist, and expert in the literary and publishing world. She has received multiple recognitions for her work promoting reading and advocating for the future of books and the Spanish language.

For the past twelve years, she has served as the director of the Guadalajara International Book Fair, considered the most important Spanish-language book fair and one of the most significant in the world. Under her leadership, FIL Guadalajara has received several awards, including the prestigious Princess of Asturias Award in the area of Communication and Humanities, shared with the Hay Festival; the Order of Rio Branco from Brazil; and recently, the Sor Juana Medal, a recognition granted by the Universidad del Claustro de Sor Juana in Mexico.

She also directs the Los Angeles Spanish Language Book Fair and Literary Festival, an ambitious program aimed at promoting books and reading in Spanish in the United States, founded in 2011.

For over four decades, Marisol Schulz has focused on the book and reading sector, leading editorial areas in various public and private organizations, such as the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and the Center for Research and Higher Studies in Social Anthropology (CIESAS). She was the editorial director at Plaza y Janés Mexico and spent 17 years at Grupo Santillana, first as executive editor and later as director of the Taurus and Alfaguara imprints in Mexico. She was responsible for the edition of major Ibero-American writers such as Carlos Fuentes, Mario Vargas Llosa, José Saramago, Arturo Pérez Reverte, Elena Poniatowska, Augusto Monterroso, Sergio Ramírez, Carmen Boullosa, Alberto Ruy Sánchez, and Xavier Velasco, among others.

In 2013, the Mexican edition of Forbes recognized her as one of the 50 most powerful women in Mexico. In 2016 and 2020, the magazine Quién named her one of the "50 people who move Mexico." In 2021, she received the National Juan Pablos Award for Editorial Merit, a recognition granted annually by the Mexican Chamber of the Publishing Industry (Cámara Nacional de la Industria Editorial Mexicana).

Other activities involving the participant:

Indigenous Literature Award 2025
Diana Moreno Toscano Latin American Young Poetry Prize 2025
Acknowledgments and closing
The universal humanist
Inauguration
Opening Ceremony
Inter-American Publishers Group Award

Luis Estrada

Director, guionista, productor y editor de cine mexicano. Comenzó su carrera con cortometrajes y luego dirigió largometrajes. Su más reciente proyecto es la serie Las muertas (2025), basada en la novela de Jorge Ibargüengoitia. Estrada ha sido premiado nacional e internacionalmente. Su cine se distingue por su valentía temática y su compromiso con la denuncia social a través de la sátira.

Alfonso Herrera

Es uno de los actores latinoamericanos más reconocidos, con una trayectoria que abarca cine, teatro, televisión, doblaje y ficción sonora. Ganador del Ariel a Mejor Actor por El baile de los 41, ha protagonizado títulos como La dictadura perfecta, ¡Viva México!, Las muertas y La casa de los espíritus. En streaming ha destacado en Sense8, Ozark —nominado a los premios SAG— y The Exorcist. En 2023 recibió el Premio Ondas Internacional por Batman desenterrado. Desde el año 2020 es embajador de Buena Voluntad del Alto Comisionado de las Naciones Unidas para los Refugiados (ACNUR) para las Américas.

Daniela Fregoso

Abogada con 20 años de experiencia en la industria del entretenimiento. Actualmente es directora senior de Business & Legal Affairs en Netflix México, compañía en la que ha ocupado distintos cargos desde 2020. Previamente, colaboró en áreas legales de empresas como Televisa y Videocine.
 

Antonio Ortuño

(Zapopan, 1976) es autor de las novelas El buscador de cabezas (2006), Recursos humanos (2007), Ánima (2011), La fila india (2013) y Méjico (2015), así como de los libros de relatos El jardín japonés (2007), La Señora Rojo (2010), Agua corriente (2016) y La vaga ambición (2017), además de las novelas juveniles El rastro (2016) y El ojo de vidrio (2018).

Ha sido reconocido con el Premio Internacional de Narrativa Breve Ribera del Duero (2017) y el Premio Bellas Artes de Cuento Hispanoamericano Nellie Campobello (2018) y sus obras se han traducido a media docena de idiomas. Diversos medios en México, América del Sur, España y Alemania han seleccionado sus novelas como libros del año. Es colaborador habitual del periódico El País.

Martine Audet

(Canada, 1961)

She has published a dozen poetry collections since 1996, as well as several artist books and children's albums, as well as participating in literary and artistic events in Quebec and abroad, and her poems have been translated into German, English, Catalan, Spanish and Italian. She received the Estuaire Prize, the Alain-Grandbois Prize and, for her book  La Société des cendres, the 2020 Governor General's Poetry Prize and the 2020 Grand Prix Quebecor (tie) of the Trois-Rivières International Poetry Festival. She is a member of the Quebec Academy of Letters.

Other activities involving the participant:

The Poetry Room

Susanna Rafart

Invitado de Honor

Susanna Rafart first came to prominence as a poet in 2001, when she won the Carles Riba Prize for her book Pou de glaç (Ice Cellar). This was followed by the poetry collections Retrat en blanc (Portrait in White) and Baies (Berries), the latter awarded the Cavall Verd Poetry Prize in 2005. She later published a trilogy comprised of L’ocell a la cendra (The Bird in the Ash) (2010), La mà interior (The Inner Hand) (2011) and La llum constant (The Constant Light) (Rosa Leveroni Prize, 2012). She has also published a trilogy of dramatic poems, Beatriu o la frontera (Beautrice or the Frontier), and Contracant (2024), which includes La dona i l’arquitecte (The Woman and the Architect) and Orfeu a Lesbos (Orpheus in Lesbos), whose Spanish translation is currently in press with Mantis Editores. 
Pagès Editors has published the first anthology of her poetry, El saüc i la forja (The Elder Tree and the Forge). She has participated in several international festivals, and a portion of her oeuvre has been published in Italian, English, Bulgarian and French. In 2005, Toro de Barro published a bilingual edition translated by the author herself: Molino en llamas (Mill on Fire).

She is a regular contributor to the press and to literary journals and is the author of Diccionari de la rima (Dictionary of Rhyme) (1999). As a translator, she has worked on texts by Yves Bonnefoy, Dino Campana, Salvatore Quasimodo and Franco Fortini.
                    
A writer who moves across genres, she has published travel writing, short stories and diary‑style prose, such as Un cor grec: Memòria i notes d’un viatge (A Greek Heart: Memory and Notes of a Journey) (2006), Les tombes blanques. Contes de la Mediterrània (White Tombs. Tales of the Mediterranean) (2008) and Gaspara i jo. Sobre l’amor. Retrat oval de Gaspara Stampa amb intervencions presents (Gaspara and Me. On Love. Oval Portrait of Gaspara Stampa with Present Interventions).             

Other activities involving the participant:

The power of the metaphor in a protocol era

Lorena Salazar Masso

She is a publicist and writer, with a master's degree in narrative from the Madrid School of Writers. This Wound Full of Fish, her first novel has been translated into twelve languages. Maldeniña, her second novel, was published in Colombia, Spain and Argentina. She has published other texts in different journals:  Julia Escondida y otras mujeres, El malpensante; Hermano mayor, Gaceta; Bella a las once, La Maleta maleta de Portbou. El malpensante; Hermano mayor, Gaceta; Bella a las once, La; Niñas conejo, Casapaís; Missy y Huevos al desayuno, La Rompedora. She teaches at the School of Writers in Madrid. She works and writes from Medellín.

Other activities involving the participant:

Latin America Viva

Elisenda Solsona

Invitado de Honor

Elisenda Solsona (Olesa de Montserrat, 1984) is a writer and secondary school teacher. She holds undergraduate degrees in humanities, from Pompeu Fabra University (UPF), and audiovisual communication, from the University of Barcelona (UB). She also studied for the Master’s in Writing for Television and Cinema at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), and has taken several writing courses at the Obrador de la Sala Beckett and the Ateneu Barcelonès School of Writing. She has published Cirurgies (Surgeries) (Voliana Edicions, 2016), Satèl·lits (Satellites) (Males Herbes, 2019) – which won the 2020 Imperdible Prize for Best Fantasy Book in Catalan and the 2020 Ictineu Prize for Best Anthology and Best Short Story in Catalan – and Mammalia (Males Herbes, 2024), which was shortlisted for the 2025 Òmnium Prize for Best Novel in Catalan and won the Ictineu Prize for Best Fantasy Novel in Catalan. She has contributed to the anthology Autòctones (Natives) (Comanegra, 2023) and to The Valancourt Book of World Horror Stories (Valancourt, 2020) with the short story ‘Mechanisms’ (translated by Mara Faye Lethem from ‘Engranatges’, originally published in Satèl·lits).

Other activities involving the participant:

Unique motherhoods
The search for identity
Maps of a world yet to come: narratives of speculative fiction

Bernardita Bravo Pelizzola

(Santiago, Chile, 1980)

Bernardita Bravo Pelizzola published Estampida (Editorial Cuneta, 2018), which was the winner of the Santiago Municipal Literature Prize in the short story category; the novel No reinas (Alfaguara, 2022) and Voraz (La Pollera Ediciones, 2024). She coordinates cultural management programs and libraries in schools and foundations.

Begoña Gómez Urzaiz

Invitado de Honor

Begoña Gómez Urzaiz (Tarragona, 1980) is a Barcelona-based journalist and writer. She writes regularly for La Vanguardia, co-hosts the podcast Amiga, date cuenta on Radio Primavera Sound and is a regular contributor to the programme Vostè primer on RAC1. Her bylines have appeared in publications such as El País, Vogue and Vanity Fair, and she has taught in the Master’s in Literary Journalism at the UAB. She edited and wrote the foreword to the collectively authored volume Neorrancios. Contra los peligros de la nostalgia (Neorrancios. On the Dangers of Nostalgia). The Abandoners: Of Mothers and Monsters is her first book. It has been translated into English, French, German, Portuguese and Polish and was published by Borough Press in the UK and Ireland, Norton in the US, Aufbau Verlag in Germany, Zahar in Brazil, Karakter in Poland and Stock in France.

Other activities involving the participant:

Tribute to Montserrat Roig +. Words in struggle
Unique motherhoods
Pódcast: Amiga date cuenta (Radio Primavera Sound)
Pódcast: Amiga date cuenta. (Radio Primavera sound)
Literature by the ear