Sara Torres

Invitado de Honor

(Gijón, 1991) received the 2022 Revelación de los Libreros Award for her novel Lo que hay (2022). Her theoretical and creative work focuses on the analysis of desire, body and discourse through a critical feminist and interdisciplinary apparatus that intertwines psychoanalysis, new materialisms and queer studies. She has a PhD from Queen Mary University in London. Her thesis is entitled: The Lesbian Text: Fetish, Fantasy and Queer Becomings (El texto lesbiano: Fantasía, fetiche y devenires queer).

Her first book, La otra genealogía (Torremozas), won the National Gloria Fuertes Poetry Award. She has also published the poetry books Conjuros y cantos, Phantasmagoria, El ritual del baño, and most recently Deseo de perro.

She has a column in eldiario.es where she writes regularly.

Other activities involving the participant:

And now we're going to go our separate ways: the physiology of breaking up

Elizabeth Duval

Invitado de Honor

Elizabeth Duval (Madrid, 2000) graduated in Philosophy at the Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne and French Language and Literature in the Université Paris III Sorbonne Nouvelle and is a regular contributor in national media outlets like eldiario.es, Público, El País, CTXT, La Sexta TV or PlayZ by RTVE.
She writes poetry, prose, theater, and essay and explores the intersection between text and audiovisual media. In 2017, she was featured on the cover of the journal Tentaciones with a report entitled “The Future is Trans,” and she has been a visible activist in this movement since the age of fourteen.
In 2020 she published Reina (PRH-Caballo de Troya), the first memoir Spain by a woman from Generation Z, as well as Exception (Letraversal), a long poem about the streets on fire. In 2021 she published the essay Después de lo trans (La Caja Books, 2021), and the novel Madrid será la tumba (Lengua de Trapo, 2021) that has was praised by critics and readers alike.
In 2023 she published Melancolía (Temas de Hoy, 2023), a sociopolitical essay on how to recover hope when facing a grim future.

Other activities involving the participant:

Inhabit the body that inhabits me

Rosario Villajos

Invitado de Honor

(Córdoba, 1978) is a “supporting author”. Educated in Fine Arts, she has worked in different industries, including music, film, arts and cultural.

She has published a graphic novel, Face (Ponent Mon, 2017), and three novels: Ramona (Mrs. Danvers, 2019), La muela (Aristas Martínez, 2021) and La educación física (Seix Barral, 2023), a work that received the 2023 Biblioteca Breve Award and was nominated for the European Strega Prize in 2024. In it, she addresses, from a teen's perspective, the subject of consent, the female body and the normalized violence it endures over time.

She currently combines life with a 32-hour job in information technology for popular science media and publishers. Since 2017, she has lived in Madrid, but she previously lived in Córdoba, Seville, Granada, Barcelona, Montpellier and London. She still has an Andalusian accent.

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Crossroads. Music, poetry and literature

Marta Fernández

Invitado de Honor

Journalist and writer who studied Journalism at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. She began her career at Diario 16 and Televisión Española (TVE). In 1997, she first appeared on camera on Telemadrid. Two years later, she became part of the founding team of CNN+. She remained with the news channel until 2007. That year, she joined Mediaset to take over the midday news program. She stayed with the Italian group until 2016 as a presenter for Informativos Telecinco and Noticias Cuatro, programs focused on political current affairs and special reports.

A regular contributor to the cultural magazine Jot Down and GQ, she joined El País in 2017.She later collaborated with Vanity Fair, where she directed and presented the book podcast "Nota al pie."Since 2013, she has participated in La Ventana on Cadena SER, and starting this season, she has her own segment on the program "Academia de saberes inútiles." In recent years, she has realized her dream of interviewing the writers she admires most and lending her voice to audiobooks.

She has published a novel, Te regalaré el mundo, and No te enamores de cobardes, a journey through the myths of cinema and literature. Her latest book is a historical essay on imposture: La mentira, Historia de impostores y engañados. However, the literary activity she dedicates the most energy to is being an advocate for Thomas Pynchon in Spain.

Other activities involving the participant:

Encounter with the strange: vibrations, ghosts, homes and insects
Portrait of a time with family
One-way trip from nowhere
The mystery of the imagination that creates (and destroys) worlds
"I'm here for you, no matter what." Friendship
Personal paradises
Crossroads. Music, poetry and literature