This edition of the Hay Festival in Colombia is celebrated between January 25 and 28 and has the collaboration of AC/E, once again this year, with a program that seeks to publicize different facets of literature and the Spanish literary sector, and writers and book professionals participate in it.
The writers participating with the support of AC/E in this edition are:
Alana Porter. Spanish writer, poet and playwright, her work as a feminist activist and defender of the rights of trans people has been recognized by the Ministry of Equality. She is a collaborator in various media such as ElDiario.es, SModa, El Salto and VOGUE España. After founding her own theater company and writing collections of poems such as Fantasmas, Irredento, The Next Storm and The Drowned Room, Portero has presented her first novel, La Mala Habitat, which narrates in the first person the experience of a trans girl trapped in a body that does not know how to inhabit.
Eduardo Romero García. He is a member of the social and publishing collective Cambalache, and author of the novel En mar Abierto and the story Naiyiria (2016). He has written numerous books dedicated to criticizing immigration policy, including: A Passionate Desire for Cheaper and More Helpful Work. Migrations, borders and capitalism (2010), Around the corner. Stories of racism and repression (2008) and Who invades who. The Africa Plan and immigration (2007) and Who invades who. From colonialism to the Second Africa Plan (2011). In 2022 Eduardo Romero published in the Pepitas de Calabaza publishing house How is the mountain going to be a god?, which draws a bridge between Asturias and Colombia, and makes us participate in a true story, a round trip between two separate universes for thousands of kilometers, but interconnected by several threads: coal and mining, capital and its port logistics, migration and exile.
Rocío Bonilla. Author and illustrator of more than fifty books that have been translated into almost 30 languages. She studied Fine Arts and Pedagogy at the University of Barcelona. She began her professional career through disciplines such as painting, muralism, photography, pedagogy and, finally, for many years she dedicated herself to the world of advertising. Motherhood was the definitive factor for a turn in her career and, since 2013, she has been writing and drawing for the little ones in the house. Some of her illustrated albums are: What color is a kiss?, The tallest book mountain in the world and Grandparents, piranhas and other stories. She is the creator of the series Babymoni, about a girl who discovers the world around her, exploring her emotions and her daily life.
Alvaro Ortiz. He studied graphic design at the Aragon School of Design and illustration at the Escola Massana in Barcelona. After winning several comic contests – among them, the Injuve in 2003 – and participating in collective albums, in 2005 he published Julia and the Dead Summer, which would be followed in 2009 by Julia and the Voice of the Whale, both published in Edicions de Ponent. . In 2012 he published Cenizas (Astiberri, 2012), a comic made thanks to the Alhóndiga Bilbao scholarship at the Maison des Auteurs de Angoulême, and published in France and Germany. In 2014 Murderabilia (Astiberri) was released, also published in France, and in 2015 Rituals, made at the Spanish Academy in Rome, thanks to one of the MAEC-AECID grants, which is also published in France and was nominated as best work by a Spanish author at the Barcelona Comic Fair of 2016. His latest published works are Two Dutchmen in Naples (Astiberri, 2016), co-published with the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum; Travel (Astiberri, 2016); The bat goes out for beers (Caramba!, 2020); and PRDRO and MAILI (Caramba!, 2021). In 2022 she published her first children's comic The Little Genius and the Departure of Shatranj.
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