Antonio Monegal

Invitado de Honor

He is a professor of Theory of Literature and Comparative Literature at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, where he coordinates the Master's in Comparative Studies in Literature, Art and Thought. He has a PhD from Harvard University and has taught at Cornell, Harvard, Princeton, Chicago and Stanford universities.

He received the award Premio Nacional de Ensayo 2023 for Como el aire que respiramos: El sentido de la cultura (Acantilado, 2022), after which he published El silencio de la guerra (Acantilado, 2024). He is also the author of Luis Buñuel de la literatura al cine: Una poética del objeto and of En los límites de la diferencia: Poesía e imagen en las vanguardias hispánicas. He also coordinated Literatura y pintura and Política y (po)ética de las imágenes de guerra, and edited the works of García Lorca Viaje a la luna and El público.

He was one of the curators, along with Francesc Torres and José María Ridao, of the exhibition En Guerra (2004) and, with Alyce Mahon, has curated Sade:la libertad o el mal (2023), both at the Center of Contemporary Culture in Barcelona. From 2009 to 2013, he was Vice-President of the Council of Culture of Barcelona and Chairman of its Executive Committee.

Inés Martín Rodrigo

Invitado de Honor

(Madrid, 1983) is a writer and journalist. In 2022, she won the Nadal Prize with the novel Las formas del querer, which also received the Premio de la Crítica de Madrid. She is also the author of the biographical fiction Azules son las horas (2016), the anthology of interviews with women writers Una habitación compartida (2020), the children's story Giselle (2020), and the essay Una homosexualidad propia (2023).

In 2019, she was included in the “10 de 30” program of the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID), which every year recognizes the best Spanish writers under 40 years old. For 14 years she worked for the Culture section of the ABC newspaper and in June 2022, she joined the Prensa Ibérica group, where she is on the team of the literary supplement abril and writes opinion pieces.

Other activities involving the participant:

Rain without ice, please: the world is thirsty
Free time with a tourist personality
Journeys. Tribute to Carmen Martín Gaite
Journeys. Tribute to Ana María Matute