Benito Taibo

(Mexico City, 1960)

He is a writer, journalist and enthusiastic promoter of reading among young people. He began his journey in literature as a poet with Siete primeros poemas (1976), Vivos y suicidas (1978), Recetas para el desastre (1987) and De la función social de las gitanas (2002). He has published his novels in Planeta Polvo (2010), Persona normal (2011), Querido Escorpión (2013), Desde mi muro (2014), Cómplices (2015), Corazonadas (2016) and the trilogy Mundo sin dioses: Camino a Sognum (2018), La razón y la ira (2019) y Caos y destino (2020), Pasar inadvertido (Seix Barral, 2022). His most recent book is Cuchara y memoria (2024), a celebration of life through flavors and memories.

Other activities involving the participant:

The Poetry Room
One Thousand Young People with Joan Manuel Serrat