Quetzalli del Carmen de la Concha Pichardo

Obtuvo el Premio CANIEM al Mérito Gremial 2023, otorgado por la Cámara Nacional de la Industria Editorial Mexicana, en reconocimiento a su trayectoria en la protección y fomento de los derechos de autor en la industria editorial.

Es Licenciada en Derecho con especialidad en Propiedad Intelectual por la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México y ha realizado estudios de Maestría en Propiedad Intelectual en la Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO), sede Argentina. Fue la primera mujer en presidir el Centro Mexicano de Protección y Fomento de los Derechos de Autor (CeMPro S.G.C.), donde actualmente es consejera jurídica y vicepresidenta.

Además, es miembro de la Barra Nacional Colegio de Abogados y forma parte del Consejo Directivo de la Coalición por el Acceso Legal a la Cultura (CALC). Como parte de su vinculación con la Asociación Mexicana para la Protección de la Propiedad Intelectual (AMPPI), preside el Comité de Derechos de Autor y Derechos Conexos. También participa en el grupo de abogados En línea contra la piratería, convocado por el Instituto Mexicano de Propiedad Industrial (IMPI), y ha sido parte del Comité de Redacción de la reforma de la Ley Federal de Derecho de Autor.

María Elena Cornejo Esparza

Directora Ejecutiva de Capacitación Electoral y Educación Cívica del Instituto Nacional Electoral

Tiene estudios de Profesora en Educación Primaria, Licenciada en Ciencias de la Educación y Maestría en Procesos Electorales. Cuenta con una amplia experiencia en temas electorales, pedagógicos y administrativos, así como con competencias de dirección y coordinación de proyectos y equipos de trabajo. Cuenta con 33 años de experiencia en materia electoral.

Carlos Anaya

Editor with over 50 years of experience in the field. Chancellor of the University of Book Sciences and Arts (UNICAL). Advocate for compensatory remuneration for authors for private copying. He has proposed the creation of a book institute to unify the various sectors of the book world. He was President of the National Chamber of the Mexican Publishing Industry (CANIEM) and received the Guild Merit Medal in 2013. He is currently the Vice President of the Coalition for Legal Access to Culture, an organization that brings together groups representing and defending the rights of authors in Mexico.

Other activities involving the participant:

Panel: The Importance of Collective Action in Defending Copyrights

Arturo Ahmed Romero

Arturo Ahmed Romero has a degree in Business Administration from UNAM. He has a Master's degree in Corporate Administration from Universidad Panamericana and a Master's degree in Business Management for Experienced Executives from IPADE, the Pan-American Institute for Senior Business Management.
Professor and founder of the Institute for Professional Development for Booksellers (Indeli), of which he is president of the board of directors. Founder of the University of Book Sciences and Arts, the first in Latin America.
He has also served for more than 18 years as an advisor to the National Chamber of the Mexican Publishing Industry (Caniem), on various committees. He has been a guest professor at Universidad Panamericana, Universidad de Xalapa, Universidad Panamericana (Campus Guadalajara), UAM-Xochimilco. He has been a professor of different specialization courses at Caniem-Editamos. He is the academic coordinator of the Ramón López Velarde Chair (Indeli), and of the training program for employees, managers and bookstore directors. He has been the executive president of the Congress of Mexican Booksellers (Colime) for 23 years.
He is a founding partner of Editora y Distribuidora Fausto, a company founded in June 1987.
He is a founding member of the Center for Innovation and Professional Development for the Publishing Industry, Editamos, of Caniem, and its first general director. During his tenure, he was in charge of defining and conceptualizing the company, its constitution and legal personality, defining and developing the training program for editors, and monitoring projected results.
He has worked in various executive and management positions in the publishing and bookselling industry for 50 years. On February 17, 2020, he was appointed Vice-Rector of the University of Book Sciences and Arts, an institution founded in 2011 by academics and professionals related to the publishing and bookselling sector.

Luis Mateo Díez

Invitado de Honor

(Villablino, León, 1942) is a writer and member of the Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) since his election in 2000. He co-founded the poetry magazine Claraboya and, in 1972, his poetry book Señales de humo was published.

His published novels include: Apócrifo del clavel y la espina (1974 Café Gijón Award), La fuente de la edad (1986, Premio Nacional de Narrativa and Premio de la Crítica awards), Las horas completas (1990), La ruina del cielo. Un obituario (1999, Premio Nacional de Narrativa and Premio de la Crítica awards), Los frutos de la niebla (2008, Premio de la Crítica de Castilla y León award) and El amo de la pista (2024). El reino de Celama (2003) brings together his three novels set in this imaginary land, and in Fábulas del sentimiento (2013), he grouped the four short volumes of novels from that narrative cycle.

His short stories include: Relato de Babia (1981), El árbol de los cuentos. Cuentos reunidos (1973-2004) (2006), La cabeza en llamas (2012, Francisco Umbral Award), Celama (un recuento) (2022) and El limbo de los cines (2023, with illustrations by Emilio Urberuaga).

 His books of non-fiction and diverse genres include El porvenir de la ficción (1992), La mano del sueño (Algunas consideraciones sobre el arte narrativo, la imaginación y la memoria) (Induction speech into the RAE, given on May 20, 2001), Orillas de la ficción (2010) and Los desayunos del Café Borenes (2015).

In addition to those already mentioned, he has received the Premio Castilla y León de las Letras and the Premio de Literatura de la Comunidad de Madrid awards. In 2020, he received the award Premio Nacional de las Letras Españolas, and in 2023, the Cervantes Award.

Other activities involving the participant:

Writing goodbye
Tradition and modernity in the Spanish and Mexican short story

Rita Carelli

(Brazil, 1984) 

She is a writer and illustrator, as well as an actress and filmmaker. In 2018, she created, in collaboration with the NGO Vídeo nas Aldeias, the collection Um Dia na Aldeia (Sesi). Her books Akukusia (Sesi) and Minha Família Enauenê (FTD) received the international White Ravens seal from the Munich Library and Highly Recommended by the National Children's and Youth Book Foundation (FNLIJ). The latter was a semifinalist of the Jabuti Prize, and voted best children's book by the Association of Writers of Children's and Youth Books in 2019. In 2021 she published the illustrated book Amor, o Coelho (Caixote) and the novel, Terrapreta, (Editora 34), winner of the São Paulo Prize for Literature in the first novel category, and of the Lessa Origins Prize, of the FNLIJ.
She is the director and screenwriter of the short films Hospedeira (2014) and of the documentaries made with the indigenous people enawenê nawê The Era of Lareokotô (2018) and Yaõkwa, image and memory (2020). The latter, made in collaboration with Vincent Carelli, was the winner of the É Tudo Verdade - International Documentary Festival in the Brazilian short film category and the Canal Brasil Acquisition Award in 2021 and the Grand Prize of Brazilian Cinema in 2022. 
She is one of the idealizers of the book Ideias para adiar o fim do mundo (2019) and signs the research and organization of A vida não é útil (2020) and Futuro Ancestral (2022), the three by the indigenous thinker Ailton Krenak (Companhia das Letras). In 2022 she published the children's book Menina Mandioca (Mini Pallas), in 2023 O Caminho para a Casa de Barro (Baião) in collaboration with the indigenous artist Xadalu, and in 2024 Kuján e os meninos sabidos, with Ailton Krenak.
She is currently working on her second book, O Mundo Fora da Pedra.

Other activities involving the participant:

São Paulo Prize for Literature
Destinação Brazil

Simon de Jocas

Simon de Jocas is an experienced educator and publisher with over 35 years of experience. After obtaining his bachelor’s degree in education from McGill in 1987, he taught for a decade before holding leadership positions in publishing houses such as Beauchemin, Duval, and Nelson from 1997 to 2009. In 2009, he became the head of the Education division at De Marque. In 2013, he acquired Les 400 coups, a publishing house known for its editorial boldness. His vision for Les 400 coups emphasizes discoverability, accessibility, and diversity. Active in the publishing community, he has served and continues to serve on various committees of the Quebec National Association of Book Publishers (ANEL). His international engagement includes his appointment to Executive committee and the Freedom to Publish Committee of the International Publishers’ Association and his involvement on the board of Copibec. In 2020, he cofounded Publishers Without Border (PWB), which boast over five thousand members, providing a meeting and support space for publishing professionals worldwide. In summary, Simon de Jocas is an influential and respected figure in the Francophone publishing world who is dedicated to children, reading and editorial innovation.

Dolores Prades

Dolores Prades is the director of Instituto Emília. She holds a PhD in Economic History and is a specialist in children's and young adult literature from the Autonomous University of Barcelona. She is co-director of the Laboratório Emília de Formação. As a curator, she coordinated the seminars Conversas ao Pé da Página (2011–2015) and Arte Palavra e Leitura (2018–2020). She has served as a jury member, including the Hans Christian Andersen Award (2016), the Bologna Children’s Book Fair Awards (2016), the Chen Bochui Children’s Literature Award (2019), and the Astra Awards (2023, 2024). Since 2018, she has been a consultant for the Bologna Book Fair focusing on Latin America. She works in editorial consultancy and specializes in topics related to reading and reader development. She is also a translator, researcher, and writer in the field of books and reading.

David Unger

David Unger was born in Guatemala City in 1950, and in 2014 he was awarded the Miguel Ángel Asturias National Literature Prize of Guatemala, for his career as a novelist and translator. He has published five novels, including Vivir en el maldito trópico (Living in the Damned Tropic), El precio de la fuga (The Price of Escape), and Ni chicha, ni limonada (Neither Chicha nor Lemonade), all published under the imprint of the prestigious Guatemalan publishing house F&G Editores. Among others, he has translated Miguel Ángel Asturias, Rigoberta Menchú, Elena Garro, Silvia Molina, Denise Phé-Funchal, and Humberto Ak’abal. In addition to José Feeds the World, for children he has published La casita (CIDCLI, 2012), Topo Pecoso (Green Seeds, 2021), and Dormir con la luz encendida (F&G Editores, 2023). Likewise, since 1994 he has worked as a representative of the Guadalajara International Book Fair.

Issa Watanabe

Trabaja como ilustradora y docente de ilustración infantil.

Como autora, sus libros han sido traducidos a 18 idiomas y algunos cuentan hasta la fecha con más de 25 ediciones. Asimismo ha sido merecedora de algunos de los premios más importantes en de Literatura Infantil y Juvenil, por sus 2 últimos álbumes silentes. Kintsugi y Migrantes (ed. Libros del Zorro Rojo); como El Bologna Regazzi Awards 2024; el Gran Prix Sorcières (Francia), Libreter (España), el Gran Premio del Jurado BIBF Ananas International Illustration Exhibition (Beijing), Zlata Hruska (Eslovenia), The White Ravens (Alemania), entre otros.

Su trabajo se ha expuesto internacionalmente en diferentes Museos y galerías, como Nueva York, Berlin, Roma,Taiwán, Tokio, Washington, Madrid, Boloña, Frankfurt, Viena, entre otras.

Vanina Colagiovanni

(Gog & Magog) is the author of 7 books, the latest of which is a biography of the poet Juana Bignozzi, entitled Todo se une con la noche. With a degree in Communication Sciences from the University of Buenos Aires and a master's degree in Creative Writing from the National University of Tres de Febrero, she has directed the publishing house Gog & Magog since 2007 and has been part of the editorial team of the Cúmulus Nimbus label since 2019.

Julia Sabena

She is the founder and director of Editorial Serapis since its inception in 2005. In addition to her publications (a catalogue focused on poetry, translations and rescues), she ran the Lost in Translation space in Rosario for several years, with debates, talks and exchanges between different actors in literary translation. She has a PhD in Literature with research on Gongora poetry in America.

Judith Wilhelm

(Calibroscopio). Publisher and bookseller specializing in children’s and illustrated books. In 1997 she founded the traveling fair project El Libro de Arena, with which she later, in partnership with Walter Binder, in 2005 they started the Calibroscopio publishing house, winner of the 2014 Diploma of Merit from the Kónex Foundation in the Editorial Work of the Decade category, and a finalist for the BOP award at the Bologna Book Fair on several occasions.

Javier Bendersky

He is a bookseller, distributor and member of the publishing collective Tinta limón, also responsible for the Flower Book Fair in the city of Buenos Aires, and for the collective space Todo libro es políticos at the Buenos Aires Book Fair.

Diego Rey

(Hotel de las Ideas) He is an editor, illustrator and book worker. In addition to working in distribution and sales areas for various publishers, since 2009 he has been part of the Hotel de las Ideas work cooperative. In his role as editor, he has attended international fairs. Since 2023 he has been a counselor at the Book Chamber, currently deputy counselor and coordinator of the entity's comics commission.

Leonardo Rodríguez

Before becoming a book worker, an underground journalist and one of the editors of Madreselva since 2007, Leo Rodriguez knew how to inhabit the insurgent territory of anarchism and punk, and he returns to those lands every time he searches for a compass to guide the cultural production of his publishing house in the Latin American context.