Agustín Fernández Mallo

Invitado de Honor

(La Coruña, 1967) is a physicist and writer, and his literature has been translated into more than ten languages. Critics and readers alike in each country note the high literary quality and conceptual openness to other symbolic spaces and other ways of telling our present.

His latest novel is Madre de corazón atómico (Seix Barral). He is also the author of the novels El libro de todos los amores (Seix Barral); Trilogía de la guerra (Seix Barral, Biblioteca Breve Award, in English The Things We've Seen, English PEN Award, published by Fitzcarraldo and FSG); Proyecto Nocilla (Nocilla Dream, Nocilla Experience, Nocilla Lab, European Literature Award 2022, presented in the Netherlands); El hacedor (de Borges), remake and Limbo (Alfaguara).

His poetry collections, some of which have received awards, are collected in Ya nadie se llamará como yo (Seix Barral).

As a non-fiction author, he has written Postpoesía, hacia un nuevo paradigma, shortlisted for an Anagrama de Ensayo Prize; Teoría general de la basura (Galaxia Gutenberg, Award Premio Cálamo Extraordinario); La mirada imposible (Wunderkammer); La forma de la multitud (Galaxia Gutenberg, 1st Award Premio de Ensayo Eugenio Trías), and co-author, together with Bernardí Roig and Fernando Castro Flórez, of Wittgenstein, arquitecto (Galaxia Gutenberg).

Other activities involving the participant:

Algorithms, modern demons?

Juan Pablo Villalobos

(Guadalajara, Jalisco, 1973) is the author of the novels Down the Rabbit Hole, Si viviéramos en un lugar normal, I’ll Sell You a Dog, I Don’t Expect Anyone to Believe Me (Premio Herralde de Novela award 2016), Invasion of the spirit people, Peluquería y letras and El pasado anda atrás de nosotros. He has also published the chronicle The other side: stories of Central American teen refugees who dream of crossing the border and the children's novel Un viaje cósmico a Puerto Ficción.

His books have been translated into more than 15 languages. His novel I Don’t Expect Anyone to Believe Me was adapted for the cinema by Fernando Frías de la Parra, and Down the Rabbit Hole by Manolo Caro.

He teaches writing at Pompeu Fabra University and Literature and Cultural Studies at the Escuela Superior de Cine y Audiovisuals de Cataluña.

He has lived outside Mexico since 2003. He currently resides in Barcelona, where he teaches literary workshops in his own space.

Other activities involving the participant:

Crossroads. Humor, illustration and literature

Nuria Barrios

Invitado de Honor

Writer and translator with a PhD in Philosophy. She is the author of the essay La impostora, winner of the Premio Málaga de Ensayo; of the novels Todo arde and El alfabeto de los pájaros; of the storybooks Ocho centímetros, El zoo sentimental, Amores patológicos and Balearia; and of the poetry books La luz de la dinamo, winner of the Premio Iberoamericano de Poesía Hermanos Machado, Nostalgia de Odiseo and El hilo de agua, winner of the Premio Ateneo de Sevilla.

Her first book, Amores patológicos, has been revised and d to commemorate its 25th anniversary.

Nuria Barrios is the translator into Spanish of Irish novelist John Banville/Benjamin Black. Her latest translations are The Dead, by James Joyce, and Call Us What We Carry, by Amanda Gorman. She is a professor in the Master's program in Literary Creation and Diploma in Writing, Style and Creativity at the Universidad Internacional de Valencia (VIU).

Other activities involving the participant:

Do you write too? Family constellations of a trade
Toxic relationships in literature