The Hay Festival Querétaro is a cultural and ideas festival for all audiences that celebrates the arts and sciences through inclusive, accessible and playful events. Its programming includes talks, workshops, concerts and readings with international experts in the fields of literature, visual arts, science, the environment, cinema, music, human rights, journalism, among other topics.
AC/E supports the participation in different scheduled activities of writers and experts:
Lucía Lijtmaer
Journalist and writer born in Argentina and raised in Barcelona, the city where her parents went into exile. She is a specialist in pop culture from a gender perspective. She is also a cultural curator, literary translator and university professor. She currently collaborates with various media outlets, including El País, ElDiario.es, RAC1 and Carne crude. She has published the books "I want the secrets of the Pentagon and I want them now" (Capitán Swing, 2015) and "Almost nothing to put on" (Los Libros del Lince, 2016), "I'm also a smart girl" (Ed. Destino, 2017), “Offended” (Ed. Anagrama, 2019) and “Cauterio” (Ed. Anagrama, 2022)
Carlos Briones
Doctor in Chemical Sciences specializing in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, he is a researcher at the Higher Council for Scientific Research (CSIC) at the Astrobiology Center (a joint center of the CSIC and the National Institute of Aerospace Technology, INTA, associated with the Astrobiology Program of The NASA). Since 2000 he has directed a group that investigates the origin and early evolution of life, RNA viruses, subsoil biodiversity, and the development of biosensors to characterize life on our planet and search for it outside of it. He has extensive experience in popular science as a speaker, coordinator of activities and writer. He is co-author of several books, including “Origins. The universe, life, humans” (Crítica, 2015, Prismas Award for best outreach book in 2016). He has also published stories and books of poems (such as “Where are you absent”, Hiperión Prize for Poetry in 1993) and is a strong supporter of the Third Culture to integrate science, humanities and the arts.
Esther Paniagua
Independent journalist specialized in technology, innovation and science. She has numerous awards and recognitions such as Forbes magazine's Top 100 Most Creative People in Business, Top 100 Leading Women in Spain, Accenture Award for Journalism in Artificial Intelligence, Vodafone Award for Journalism in Economics, Roche Award for Journalism in Personalized Medicine and Precision, Spanish Science Writer of the Year by the ABSW. In “Error 404” she addresses the many ways the internet is going down and how a major blackout could occur; the chaos that this could unleash and how dependent we are on the network of networks. She is a book about disinformation, polarization and incendiary hatred online, about the automation of discrimination or censorship and repression. In short, the hidden workings of a digital tyranny.
Bibiana Candía
Poet and writer. In 2011, she moved to Berlin to pursue a career in literature. She has published the collections of poems The Hamster Wheel (2012) and The Trapezists We Have No Boyfriend (2016), and the book of stories "Kafka's Foot" (2015). She regularly collaborates with the magazine Jot Down and coordinates the literary café at the Cervantes Institute in Berlin. She is now publishing her first novel, “Azucre” (Pumpkin seeds) where she tells the story of 1700 young people who, in 1853, left their native Galicia to travel to Cuba in search of a more prosperous future, who ended up becoming slaves. . Through the voices of these young people, Candia not only recounts one of the most tragic episodes of economic exile in our history, but also delves into and deepens the tragic experience of exile, uprooting and the desperate search for a better future. that never comes.
