The 29th edition of Semana Negra (Noir week) will take place from 8 to 17 July 2016 on the site of the former shipyard of Naval Gijón – the same venue as its four previous editions.
Surprising its visitors with new features every year, Spain’s longest standing literary, cultural, radical, celebratory and popular festival has again reinvented itself. More than 100 authors from all over the world are taking part, armed with plenty of proposals for debating on but also returning to earlier topics.
The activities and debates of the writers’ sessions will span many subjects, including meetings and roundtables analysing violence against women in noir novels, particularly those written in Spanish, and children – their ill-treatment, defencelessness and hard real lives – from the viewpoint of novelists from countries as different as Sweden and Spain. This harsh but topical theme will give rise to the characteristic artistic interventions devised for Semana Negra in recent years.
This year the social side of Semana Negra explores various aspects. In a series of lectures/debates (Aula Negra ‘classroom’), lecturers and professors of the universities of Lisbon (Raquel Varela), Barcelona (Enrique Fernández and Adoración Guamán) and Valencia will discuss physics, history and the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership in an accessible manner. And libertarian thought and its history, reality and prevalence will be explored by Frank Mintz, Michel Suárez and Isabel Escudero.
Surprising its visitors with new features every year, Spain’s longest standing literary, cultural, radical, celebratory and popular festival has again reinvented itself. More than 100 authors from all over the world are taking part, armed with plenty of proposals for debating on but also returning to earlier topics.
The activities and debates of the writers’ sessions will span many subjects, including meetings and roundtables analysing violence against women in noir novels, particularly those written in Spanish, and children – their ill-treatment, defencelessness and hard real lives – from the viewpoint of novelists from countries as different as Sweden and Spain. This harsh but topical theme will give rise to the characteristic artistic interventions devised for Semana Negra in recent years.
This year the social side of Semana Negra explores various aspects. In a series of lectures/debates (Aula Negra ‘classroom’), lecturers and professors of the universities of Lisbon (Raquel Varela), Barcelona (Enrique Fernández and Adoración Guamán) and Valencia will discuss physics, history and the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership in an accessible manner. And libertarian thought and its history, reality and prevalence will be explored by Frank Mintz, Michel Suárez and Isabel Escudero.