Centroamérica cuenta is an initiative created by the Nicaraguan writer Sergio Ramírez in 2012 to reflect on and discuss key Central American topics through art and literature. This literary festival is held in different Nicaraguan cities each year and brings together writers, publishers, translators and cultural managers to discuss a broad variety of issues, give readings and forge ties of friendship and cooperation.
The fifth edition, with the slogan ‘We the others’ (Nosotros los otros), addresses common themes that are rarely included in literary events, such as migrations, diaspora, minorities and diversity. In the words of the organisation, ‘For Nicaragua, this region so small and so large at the same time, so present and so absent, so prosperous but also lacking so much, to be able to look from the point of view of the other is something we seldom do, and this time we want to do it with different forms of storytelling’.
AC/E supported the participation of Spanish authors in panels and discussions, workshops and the cinema cycle ‘Literature that becomes film’, as well as visits to schools and universities, among other activities.
The fifth edition, with the slogan ‘We the others’ (Nosotros los otros), addresses common themes that are rarely included in literary events, such as migrations, diaspora, minorities and diversity. In the words of the organisation, ‘For Nicaragua, this region so small and so large at the same time, so present and so absent, so prosperous but also lacking so much, to be able to look from the point of view of the other is something we seldom do, and this time we want to do it with different forms of storytelling’.
AC/E supported the participation of Spanish authors in panels and discussions, workshops and the cinema cycle ‘Literature that becomes film’, as well as visits to schools and universities, among other activities.