Marta Jiménez Serrano

Invitado de Honor

(Madrid, 1990) She is a writer. She holds a degree in Hispanic Philology and a Master’s in Literary Studies and Modern Letters. In 2022, she was awarded the writer's residency scholarship at the Cité des Arts (Paris).

Her poetry collection La edad ligera (2021, Rialp) was a runner-up for the 2020 Adonáis Prize. Her novel Los nombres propios (2021, Sexto Piso) was translated into Italian and selected by El Cultural as one of the best debuts of the year. Her book No todo el mundo (2023, Sexto Piso) was a finalist for the Premio de las Librerías de Madrid (best fiction book), finalist for the Openbank Vanity Fair Literature Prize (best fiction book in Spanish), winner of the Nollegiu Prize 2023 (best short story collection in Spanish), and selected as one of the books of the year by media outlets such as Babelia, Cadena Ser, and Radio Televisión Española (RTVE).

She has also contributed to collective books such as Querida Theresa (2022, Comisura) and El gran libro de los pájaros (2023, Blackie Books).

She has a monthly column in La Lectura, the cultural supplement of El Mundo, and she is one of the contributors to the television show "Ovejas eléctricas," hosted by Berto Romero. She writes and teaches writing workshops in Madrid.

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Onliterature in other formats. Love and other paths . Punzadas sonoras (Podcast. Live episode)

Sabina Urraca

Invitado de Honor

(San Sebastián, 1984) is a writer and editor. She grew up in Tenerife and has lived in Madrid for over twenty years. She is the author of Las niñas prodigio (2017, Fulgencio Pimentel), winner of the Javier Morote Award, presented by the Spanish Confederation of Guilds and Associations of Booksellers (CEGAL), and selected by New Spanish Books, a program aimed at translating works in Spanish;  Soñó con la chica que robaba un caballo (2021, Lengua de Trapo); Chachachá (Dueto) (2023, Comisura) and El celo (2024, Alfaguara). She has also featured in the anthologies Verónica... (2023, Bcn Producció, La Capella), Hospitalidad contra pronóstico (2023, Bartlebooth y Concomitentes), Tranquilas.Historias para ir solas de noche (2019, Lumen) and La errabunda (2018, Lindo y Espinosa).

Her stories and translations of some chapters of her books have been published in magazines such as The White Review (United Kingdom), The Washington Square Review (USA) and Picnic (Mexico), and she has collaborated with columns and articles in outlets such as El País, El Cultural, Vice and Cinemania. She has a monthly column in the literary magazine Zenda.

She has taught writing workshops in Spain, Mexico, El Salvador and Costa Rica. In 2020, she received the 10 de 30 grant, which promotes the internationalization of Spanish writers, as part of which she gave talks at the Instituto Cervantes in Chicago and Georgetown University in Washington.

In 2019, she debuted as editor with Panza de burro, by Andrea Abreu (Barrett), as part of the “Editor for a book” project. In 2020, she received the Master of Fine Arts (MFA) grant in Spanish Creative Writing from the University of Iowa. She is the resident editor of Caballo de Troya (Penguin Random House) for 2023 and 2024. In 2023, she was awarded a literary residency by the Finestres Foundation. In 2022, she received the Leonardo grant for creators from the BBVA Foundation.

Other activities involving the participant:

Body grammar
Toxic relationships in literature

Jacobo Bergareche

Invitado de Honor

(London, 1976) left his studies in Fine Arts at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid and earned a degree in Writing, Literature, and Publishing from Emerson College in Boston. He began his career as a screenwriter and television producer, creating several fiction series for Spain's major channels. For a few years, he worked in advertising in Austin, Texas. He was a member of the advisory board of the Harry Ransom Center, one of the largest literary archives in the world.

He has published the novels Estaciones de regreso (2019, Círculo de Tiza), Los días perfectos (2021, Libros del Asteroide) and Las despedidas (2023, Libros del Asteroide). In 2022, he received a special mention from the European Union Prize for Literature. Currently, he is producing a documentary series for Televisión Española (TVE), collaborating with various national print media, and preparing an essay and a novel for 2025.

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.

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Speak, wish