Rosa Montero

Invitado de Honor

She was born in Madrid and studied Journalism and Psychology. Since 1977, she has been working exclusively for the newspaper El País.

In 1978, she won the award Premio Mundo de Entrevistas, in 1980 the award Premio Nacional de Periodismo for literary articles and articles, in 2005 the award Premio de la Asociación de la Prensa de Madrid for lifetime achievement, and in 2014 the award Premio Internacional Columnistas del Mundo 2014.

Se has published the novels: Absent love: a chronicle (1979), Delta Function (1981), Te trataré como a una reina (1983), Amado Amo (1988), Temblor (1990), Beautiful and Dark (1993), La hija del caníbal (1997), El corazón del Tártaro (2001), La loca de la casa (2003), Historia del Rey Transparente (2005), Instrucciones para salvar el mundo (2008), Tears in Rain (2011), La ridícula idea de no volver a verte (2013), Weight of the Heart (2015), La carne (2016), Los tiempos del odio (2018), La buena suerte (2020), El peligro de estar cuerda (2022) and La desconocida, short story with Olivier Truc (2023).

She has also published the book of short stories Amantes y enemigos; two biographical essays, Historias de mujeres and Pasiones, as well as stories for children and compilations of interviews and articles, the last of which is Cuentos verdaderos (2024).

Her work has been translated into more than 25 languages.

She has an honorary doctorate from the University of Puerto Rico, is an honorary member of the University of Málaga (Spain) and in 2018 she was named Honorary Professor of the Academic Department of Humanities at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru.

In 2017, she received the award Premio Nacional de las Letras, and in 2022 the Medalla de Oro al Mérito de las Bellas Artes.

Other activities involving the participant:

Opening of the Carlos Fuentes Literary Lounge

Jesús Ramírez-Bermúdez

He is a physician specializing in psychiatry and neuropsychiatry at the National Institute of Neurology and Neurosurgery (INNN) in Mexico, where he directs the neuropsychiatry and cognitive neurology program. He has a PhD in Science from UNAM and is a professor of Scientific Methodology. He is a member of the National Research System of the National Council of Science and Technology.

He has published over 100 scientific papers in the field of clinical neurosciences. He has received awards in Australia (2006, International Neuropsychiatric Association), the United States (2011, International Conference on Bipolar Disorders) and the United Kingdom (2024, JNNP Lecture, British Neuropsychiatric Association). He published the treatise Principios de neuropsiquiatría (2019) and the text book Imágenes en neuropsiquiatría: lecciones de neurociencia clínica (2022).

He has also done extensive work in the field of scientific dissemination, literature and the cultural sphere. He is the author of the novel Paramnesia (2006, Penguin Random House) and the books Breve diccionario clínico del alma (2010, Penguin Random House), Un diccionario sin palabras (2016, Almadia), Depresión: la noche más oscura (2020, Penguin Random House) and La melancolía creativa (2022, Penguin Random House), which explore the boundaries between medical fiction, literary creativity and scientific essay.

In 2009, he won the Premio Nacional de Ensayo Literario from the Instituto de Bellas Artes de México.

Other activities involving the participant:

Mental health in the virtual world

Claudia Neira Bermúdez

(Nicaragua) She has been the director of the Centroamérica Cuenta Festival since 2015, where she also coordinates content curation. She combines her cultural management work with her experience in strategic communication and public relations.

Previously, she worked as an editor in media outlets in Nicaragua and as a communication expert in the United States and Nicaragua, where she founded Crea Comunicaciones in 2005. She has a Master's in Strategic Communication and Public Relations from Marshall University in West Virginia, United States. She is a fellow of the fifth class of the Central American Leadership Initiative (CALI), affiliated with the Aspen Institute. She has been a mentor with Vital Voices and has participated in various cultural, business, and leadership initiatives in Central America.

She is a Nicaraguan born in Brazil of a Peruvian father and Nicaraguan mother. She has lived in Madrid since 2022.

Other activities involving the participant:

Jazzing in Turtle Island: A Tribute to Darrel J. McLeod
Latin America Viva