Hay Festival of Literature and the Arts has been organising festivals in the United Kingdom (Hay on Wye), Spain (Segovia), Colombia (Bogotá and Cartagena de Indias), Kenya (Nairobi since 2008), Mexico (Zacatecas 2010 and Xalapa 2011 and 2012), India (Kerala since 2010), Lebanon (Beirut since 2012) and Hungary (Budapest since 2012) for more than a quarter-century. It also advises its ‘sister’ festivals in Italy, Germany and Brazil. The first Hay Festival Arequipa, featuring four days of 50 activities that explore literature, music, cinema, politics and the environment, is being held in 2015.
AC/E is collaborating with Hay Festival Arequipa by supporting a programme for the dissemination of literature and the Spanish literary sector. Each of the guests is taking part both in the general programme and in the “Hay Joven” section designed exclusively for students.
The Spanish participants are:
David Trueba. Journalist, writer, scriptwriter and film director. His first film script was Amo tu cama rica (1991), and five years later he made the leap to directing – albeit without abandoning scriptwriting – with La buena vida (1996), for which he received two nominations for the Goya awards. His major success came in 2000 with the adaptation of the novel Soldados de Salamina (published in English as Soldiers of Salamis), which was presented by the Spanish Film Academy to represent the country at the Oscars.
He has written four novels and recently published Blitz, which has aroused much expectation after he won the national Critics’ prize in 2008 for Saber perder.
Sara Mesa. Lives in Seville since childhood, and has published two books of short stories: 'The sobriety of the turtle' (2008), with illustrations of the Toledo Naomi Gonzalez, and 'No es fácil ser verde' (2009), in addition to novels 'El trepanador de cerebros' (2010), 'Un incendio invisible' (2011) and 'Cuatro por cuatro'(2013), the latter Herralde Finalist Novel Prize in 2013. His first collection of poems,'Este jilguero agenda' (2007) was awarded the National Poetry Prize Miguel Hernandez. It appears in the anthology 'Pequeñas resistencias 5. Nuevas voces del cuento españo' (2010).
Gabriela Weine. This writer, chronicler, poet and journalist of Peruvian origin has been based in Barcelona since 2003. She is a fundamental member of the group of new Latin American chroniclers and has worked for many media such as Etiqueta Negra, El País and La Vanguardia. She is the author of two books of chronicles and the slim volume of poetry Cosas que deja la gente cuando se va.
Marcos Giralt Torrente is a writer and literary critic in several media whose works have been translated into many languages. He won the Herralde award for his novel París, and the national narrative award for his novel Tiempo de vida, which tells of his relationship with his father until the latter’s death. He also received the first European Strega award in 2014. He has been resident writer at the Academia Española in Rome, Aberdeen University, the Berlin Artists-in-Residence and Künstlerhaus Schloss Wiepersdorf, the Maison des Écrivains Etrangers et des Traducteurs de Saint Nazaire and the Santa Maddalena Foundation. He is a member of the Finnegans Order.
Vicente Molina Foix. A writer, poet, literary, film and TV critic who has combined this work with teaching at prestigious universities such as Oxford. He was literary director of the Centro Dramático Nacional. He won the Barral award for his second novel Busto in 1973. He has also received the Azorín award for Los padres viudos, the Alfonso García Ramos prize for his novel El vampiro de la calle Méjico and the Salambó award and the national literature award (narrative section) for El abrecartas
Fernando Savater lectures in Philosophy and Ethics at several universities. His extensive work in dissemination and cultural criticism has made him an essential point of reference for a whole generation in Spain. He is also unusual in that books of his such as Ética para Amador (1991) and El contenido de la felicidad, which focus chiefly on ethics, have practically become bestsellers. He made the leap to the novel genre proper with Caronte aguarda, followed by El diario de Job and El dialecto de la vida. He has also written plays, such as Juliano en Eleusis, Vente a Sinapia and Guerrero en casa.
AC/E is collaborating with Hay Festival Arequipa by supporting a programme for the dissemination of literature and the Spanish literary sector. Each of the guests is taking part both in the general programme and in the “Hay Joven” section designed exclusively for students.
The Spanish participants are:
David Trueba. Journalist, writer, scriptwriter and film director. His first film script was Amo tu cama rica (1991), and five years later he made the leap to directing – albeit without abandoning scriptwriting – with La buena vida (1996), for which he received two nominations for the Goya awards. His major success came in 2000 with the adaptation of the novel Soldados de Salamina (published in English as Soldiers of Salamis), which was presented by the Spanish Film Academy to represent the country at the Oscars.
He has written four novels and recently published Blitz, which has aroused much expectation after he won the national Critics’ prize in 2008 for Saber perder.
Sara Mesa. Lives in Seville since childhood, and has published two books of short stories: 'The sobriety of the turtle' (2008), with illustrations of the Toledo Naomi Gonzalez, and 'No es fácil ser verde' (2009), in addition to novels 'El trepanador de cerebros' (2010), 'Un incendio invisible' (2011) and 'Cuatro por cuatro'(2013), the latter Herralde Finalist Novel Prize in 2013. His first collection of poems,'Este jilguero agenda' (2007) was awarded the National Poetry Prize Miguel Hernandez. It appears in the anthology 'Pequeñas resistencias 5. Nuevas voces del cuento españo' (2010).
Gabriela Weine. This writer, chronicler, poet and journalist of Peruvian origin has been based in Barcelona since 2003. She is a fundamental member of the group of new Latin American chroniclers and has worked for many media such as Etiqueta Negra, El País and La Vanguardia. She is the author of two books of chronicles and the slim volume of poetry Cosas que deja la gente cuando se va.
Marcos Giralt Torrente is a writer and literary critic in several media whose works have been translated into many languages. He won the Herralde award for his novel París, and the national narrative award for his novel Tiempo de vida, which tells of his relationship with his father until the latter’s death. He also received the first European Strega award in 2014. He has been resident writer at the Academia Española in Rome, Aberdeen University, the Berlin Artists-in-Residence and Künstlerhaus Schloss Wiepersdorf, the Maison des Écrivains Etrangers et des Traducteurs de Saint Nazaire and the Santa Maddalena Foundation. He is a member of the Finnegans Order.
Vicente Molina Foix. A writer, poet, literary, film and TV critic who has combined this work with teaching at prestigious universities such as Oxford. He was literary director of the Centro Dramático Nacional. He won the Barral award for his second novel Busto in 1973. He has also received the Azorín award for Los padres viudos, the Alfonso García Ramos prize for his novel El vampiro de la calle Méjico and the Salambó award and the national literature award (narrative section) for El abrecartas
Fernando Savater lectures in Philosophy and Ethics at several universities. His extensive work in dissemination and cultural criticism has made him an essential point of reference for a whole generation in Spain. He is also unusual in that books of his such as Ética para Amador (1991) and El contenido de la felicidad, which focus chiefly on ethics, have practically become bestsellers. He made the leap to the novel genre proper with Caronte aguarda, followed by El diario de Job and El dialecto de la vida. He has also written plays, such as Juliano en Eleusis, Vente a Sinapia and Guerrero en casa.