The Hay festival Arequipa is one of the most important Hispanic culture festivals, celebrating the arts and sciences through inclusive, accessible and playful events.
The tenth edition, which is held between 7 and 10 November 2024, again has the support of Accion Cultural Española in the presence of the following Spanish authors:
Karima Ziali (1986). Bachelor of Philosophy from the University of Barcelona and master of Anthropological Research from UNED, Karima Ziali is a writer and researcher specializing in sexuality, Islam and migrations. She was born in Morocco and settled down as a very young girl in Catalonia. After studying philosophy, she moved to Valencia to obtain the master of teaching and, later, to Gran Canaria, where she worked as a teacher in an institute. He later returned to the peninsula and settled in Granada, where he is currently pursuing a doctorate in migration studies at the UGR. As a fiction writer, she made her debut with “A Prayer Without God” (Esdrújula Editions, 2023), a novel loaded with biographical elements that questions the imaginary around migration and the Moroccan population in Catalonia. He also regularly collaborates on media such as Ctxt or the Open Borders channel.
Alessandro Maccarrone (Barcelona, 1980) is a doctor in Theoretical Physics from the University of Barcelona, scientific communicator and high school teacher. Passionate about mathematics he studied at the Italian School in Barcelona. He refused to study at the Higher Normal School of Pisa, one of the most prestigious scientific universities, because he did not want to be left out of society, and also of the political and social militancy in the Col·lectius de Joves Communists of which he was part of Barcelona. For fifteen years he has been devoted to teaching and outreach, where he has discovered that physics and mathematics are not only infinite in extent, but also in depth, and that in the most basic and everyday issues lies a great wealth, complexity and beauty.
María Larrea (Bilbao, 1979). A film graduate, before becoming a writer, she had worked as a director, screenwriter and actress. Larrea is the daughter of a humble Spanish immigrant couple in Paris who, at the age of 27, discovered that she had been irregularly adopted during the transition and that her biological mother belonged to Basque high society. In 2022 he published in the French publishing house Grasset his first novel, “The people of Bilbao are born where they want”. An autobiographical story about illegal adoptions, with the background of the last collections of Francoism, on the search for origins. Larrea has been distinguished with several recognitions and awards, including the Audience Prize for a first feature script awarded by the French radio station France Culture at the Premiers Plans festival in Angers, the Prize for the best novel France Télévisions 2023 , the 2023 Premier Novel Award and
Journalist Ekaitz Cancela Rodríguez (Gurutzeta, 1993) spends a decade investigating the intersection between technologies and capitalism. His latest book, “Digital Utopias”, offers a broad overview of the pitfalls of the current economic system and alternatives to overcome it, offering as examples various historical experiences in the south of the planet. The book is an allegation in favor of reprogramming technology to foster human freedom and autonomy, not to subjugate and surveil it. Ekaitz works as an editor on The Syllabus platform and is part of its sister institution, Center for the Advancement of Infrastructural Imagination (CAII). He helped found Radical Books, the cooperative that publishes Verso Books and Manifest Books and is finishing a PhD on the transformation of the State in the digital age in the Technopolitics group of the CNSC/IN3 of the UOC. His previous books are “Waking Up from the Technological Slumber” (Akal, 2019) and “The TTIP and Its Collateral Effects” (Planeta, 2015).