Once again Acción Cultural Español is collaborating on Hay Festival in Arequipa, now in its second edition. The event runs for four days and features more than fifty activities that reflect on literature, music, film, geopolitics and the environment.
The programme put together by AC/E and Hay Festival Arequipa is designed to showcase various aspects of Spanish literature and Spain’s literary sector. The participants include Marta Sanz, who will discuss her latest novel, Farándula, Fernando Iwasaki and Dante Trujillo. Marina Pérezagua will talk to the writer Kirmen Uribe about her sequel to Cervantes’s novel, which is set in the United States: Don Quijote en Manhattan. Also on the subject of Cervantes, Jordi Gracia will present his biography of the brilliant author the Peruvian public. And in the field of graphic novels, Rayco Pulido will talk about his latest novel, Lamia, part of which was written at the Maison des Auteurs in Angoulême during a residency funded by AC/E.
The exhibition MiguelEnCervantes organised by AC/E as a side event examines Cervantes the man and surveys the work of two great Spanish illustrators, Miguelanxo Prado and David Rubín.
With the support of AC/E, David Villanueva, an editor at Demipage, and Sandra Ollo, an editor at Acantilado, are also taking part in the Publishing Talent sessions organised in conjunction with Librería Cálamo in Zaragoza on the role of independent publishers of quality literature in the current literary scene.
The programme put together by AC/E and Hay Festival Arequipa is designed to showcase various aspects of Spanish literature and Spain’s literary sector. The participants include Marta Sanz, who will discuss her latest novel, Farándula, Fernando Iwasaki and Dante Trujillo. Marina Pérezagua will talk to the writer Kirmen Uribe about her sequel to Cervantes’s novel, which is set in the United States: Don Quijote en Manhattan. Also on the subject of Cervantes, Jordi Gracia will present his biography of the brilliant author the Peruvian public. And in the field of graphic novels, Rayco Pulido will talk about his latest novel, Lamia, part of which was written at the Maison des Auteurs in Angoulême during a residency funded by AC/E.
The exhibition MiguelEnCervantes organised by AC/E as a side event examines Cervantes the man and surveys the work of two great Spanish illustrators, Miguelanxo Prado and David Rubín.
With the support of AC/E, David Villanueva, an editor at Demipage, and Sandra Ollo, an editor at Acantilado, are also taking part in the Publishing Talent sessions organised in conjunction with Librería Cálamo in Zaragoza on the role of independent publishers of quality literature in the current literary scene.
