Rosa Ribas

Invitado de Honor

(El Prat de Llobregat, 1963) is a writer and columnist. She studied Hispanic Philology at the University of Barcelona, where she subsequently obtained a doctorate on German travelers to America in the 16th and 17th centuries. She has been a basketball referee, a play dough packer, a translator of love letters. She lived in Germany for 30 years, where she taught and conducted research. In 2008, she left academia to devote herself entirely to literature. She currently collaborates with the Cervantes Institute in Frankfurt, offering writing workshops.

Rosa Ribas has published 18 novels and numerous stories and press articles. Her police series starring Commissioner Cornelia Weber-Tejedor, with a German father and Galician mother, has enjoyed great success in Germany. Together with Sabine Hofmann, she wrote the Trilogía de los años oscuros, set in Spain in the 1950s.

With Un asunto demasiado familiar (2019), she began a new series starring a unique detective family in the Barcelona neighborhood of Sant Andreu, which continued with Los buenos hijos (2021) and Nuestros muertos (2023). Other titles include El pintor de Flandes (2006), La detective miope (2010), Pensión Leonardo (2015), Miss Fifty (2015), La luna en las minas (2017) and Lejos (2022). Her latest publication is the autobiographical account Peces abisales (2024)

Some of her works have been translated into German, Catalan, English, French, Italian, Polish, Czech and Japanese.

Aura García-Junco

(1988) She studied Classical Literature at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. She is a writer, scriptwriter and translator. He has collaborated with media outlets in Mexico and Spain, including eldiario.es, Washington Post, Revista de la Universidad de México and Letras Libres. She has received various grants for her work, including three editions of the Young Creators program from the Fund for Culture and the Arts and a grant for writer training from the Foundation for Mexican Literature.

She published her first novel, Anticitera, artefacto dentado (Fondo Editorial Tierra Adentro, Booket), in 2018, and her second book, El día que aprendí que no sé amar (Seix Barral), an essay on love and sex-affective relationships from a critical perspective, in October 2021. That same year, she was selected by Granta magazine as one of the 25 most outstanding young narrators in Spanish. In 2022, Seix Barral published her second novel, Mar de Piedra.Her fourth book, Dios fulmine a la que escriba sobre mí, was published in 2024 by the publishing firm Sexto Piso. Since 2020, she has combined literary writing with screenwriting for film and television series. “Pesimisma” is her triannual column in the magazine Chilango.

María Larrea

Invitado de Honor

Larrea was born in Bilbao in 1979 and grew up in Paris. She studied Cinema at Paris 8 University and Directing at the French national film school La Femis. She graduated in 2006 and directed several short films and commercials. She works as a screenwriter and is currently collaborating on several feature film productions, particularly in genre cinema (in collaboration with Dario Argento).

She published her first novel in France with Grasset in 2022 and in Spain with Alianza Editorial in 2023: Los de Bilbao nacen donde quieren. The novel won several awards in France (First Novel Prize, France Télévisions Novel Prize, Les Inrockuptibles Prize) and received the Rodolfo Walsh Prize at the Semana Negra in Gijón. The novel will be adapted for the theater in Paris in autumn 2024 with Bérénice Bejo, and its film adaptation is underway with Estrella Productions. The novel has been translated into six languages.

She contributed to the collective book on the Olympic Games, Je me souviens...de la foulée de Pérec, published by Seuil, with a story about Carl Lewis at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics. She wrote the monologue Las noches con mi padre for the Paris des Femmes festival.

Other activities involving the participant:

Crossroads. Films and literature

Winston Manrique Sabogal

He is a Colombian-Spanish journalist and founder and director of WMagazín, a global digital literary and cultural magazine based in Spain. His vocation is pan-Hispanic and itinerant, participating in the leading fairs and gatherings of writers and the book universe in both America and Europe. This pioneering project caters to a dual, analog, and virtual world, featuring special editions in PDF and print that enrich journalistic genres and explore new narratives through individual and group video interviews, photo stories, video stories, and video chats with both established and emerging authors, as well as professionals in the field.

He collaborates with the Spanish newspaper El País, where he worked for 19 years as an editor and head of books and literature for the Babelia supplement and the Culture section, and was co-editor of its digital edition and the blog Papeles perdidos. He has interviewed leading writers and book professionals from around the world over the past few decades and has written reports on literary creation, the publishing industry, and the promotion of reading. From this work came the titles El destino del libro, Latinoamérica contra los tópicos and Historias del Boom.50 años de la literatura que cambió el español (El País-Amazon).

In Colombia, he worked for the newspapers El Espectador and El Tiempo, the Colombian news agency Colprensa (Research Unit), and the radio newspaper Agrohuila. He reported on issues ranging from the coffee crisis and alliances between paramilitary and religious sects, to social and cultural trends.

He is the author of La gran transformación: la belleza, el amor, el sexo y la felicidad en el siglo XXI (Galaxia Gutenberg), a work that analyzes the accelerated metamorphosis of these four great desires that are changing life. Over two hundred people, from writers and artists to philosophers and sociologists, have contributed to his journalistic articles since the 1990s.

Other activities involving the participant:

A question of class: stories of fiction and non-fiction
The "other people": animals and nature in literature
Paths in time
Crossroads. Journalism and literature
European Literature Festival
Two-way journeys of literary agents And a tribute to Antonia Kerrigan