Jorge Volpi

(Mexico, 1968) is the author of 15 novels, including In spite of the dark silence (1993); the 20th-century trilogy consisting of In search of Klingsor (1999, Biblioteca Breve Award), El fin de la locura (2003) and Season of ash (2006); La tejedora de sombras (2011, Planeta-America Award); Oscuro bosque oscuro (2010); Memorial del engaño (2013); Las elegidas (2014); Una novela criminal (2018, Alfaguara Prize), which led to the Netflix documentary series of the same name, and Partes de guerra (2022).

He has also written the essays La imaginación y el poder (1998), La guerra y las palabras (2004), Mentiras contagiosas (2008, Mazatlán Award), El insomnio de Bolívar (2009, Debate-Casa de América Award), Leer la mente (2011) and Examen de mi padre (2016), and the play Las agujas dementes (2020). His most recent book is the book of stories Enrabiados (2023).

In October, Alfaguara will publish the essay La invención de todas las cosas, a history of fiction.

In 2008, he received the José Donoso Award for all his work, and the Medal of the Orden de Isabel la Católica de España. He is a Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters of France. His books have been translated into 30 languages.

Other activities involving the participant:

One Thousand Young People with Jorge Volpi

Ana Merino

Invitado de Honor

She is a writer. She leads the Planeta Chair of Literature and Society at the International University of Valencia-VIU. She has taught Creative Writing and Cultural Studies at the University of Iowa, where in 2011 she founded the MFA (Master of Fine Arts) in Creative Writing in Spanish, which she ran until 2018.

Winner of the Nadal Award 2020 for the novel El mapa de los afectos (Destino, 2020), she has also published the novel Amigo (Destino, 2022) and eight poetry books: Preparativos para un viaje (Rialp, 1995, Adonais Award, 2nd ed. Reino de Cordelia), Los días gemelos (Visor, 1997), La voz de los relojes (Visor, 2000), Child's play (Visor, 2003, Fray Luis de León Award), Cell mate (Visor, 2006), Curación (Visor, 2010), Los buenos propósitos (Visor, 2015), Salvamento de hormigas (Visor, 2022) and the anthology Los pasos de la cordura (Reino de Cordelia, 2023).

She has written two children's poetry books, Hagamos caso al tigre (Anaya, 2010) and El viaje del vikingo soñador (Santillana, 2015); the young adult novels El hombre de los dos corazos (Anaya, 2009) and Planeta Lasvi (Siruela, 2024); the plays Amor:muy frágil (Reino de Cordelia, 2013), Las decepciones (Literal/Conaculta, 2014), La redención (Reino de Cordelia, 2016), and the children's play Salvemos al elefante (Santillana, 2017).

She has written numerous articles on comics and graphic novels. She is the author of two non-fiction works, El cómic hispánico (Cátedra, 2003) and Diez ensayos para pensar el cómic (Eolas/Universidad de León, 2017).

She was a member of the executive committee of the International Comic Art Forum (ICAF) (2001-2011), the founding executive committee of the Center for Cartoon Studies (CCS) (2004-2014), and of Iowa City UNESCO City of Literature (2013-2018). She co-directed the University of Iowa Mellon Sawyer Seminar “Racial Reckoning through Comics” (2022-2023), and was a member of the Board of Directors of the Riverside Theater in Iowa (2019-2023).

Sergio Ramírez

(Masatepe, Nicaragua, 1942) graduated with a degree in Law in 1964. He founded the Ventana magazine in 1960, and led the literary movement of the same name. He was elected General Secretary of the Confederation of Central American Universities (CSUCA), based in Costa Rica, twice, in 1968 and in 1976. In 1968, he founded Editorial Universitaria Centroamericana (EDUCA). He founded the Nueva Nicaragua publishing house in 1981. Stripped of his Nicaraguan nationality in 2023, he lives in exile in Madrid. He is the chairman of the editorial board of the magazine Carátula, which he founded in 2006, and of the Festival Literario Centroamericana Cuenta, which he founded in 2012.

He has written more than sixty books, including novels, stories and essays, including: De tropeles y tropelías (1971, Premio Latinoamericano de Cuento of the magazine Imagen); ¿Te dio miedo la sangre? (1978, finalist of the Premio Latinoamericano Rómulo Gallegos, 1979); Castigo divino (1988, Dashiell Hammett Prize 1990); Un baile de máscaras (1995, 1998 Laure Bataillon Prize for best foreign book translated in France); Margarita, está linda la mar (1998, Premio Internacional de Novela Alfaguara 1998); La fugitiva (2011, International Metrópolis Bleu Festival Prize, Montreal). His cycle of noire novels is made up of El cielo llora por mí (2008), Ya nadie llora por mí (2017) and Tongolele no sabía bailar (2022). His latest storybook is Ese día cayó en domingo (2022) and his latest novel is El caballo dorado (Alfaguara, 2024). His books have been translated into twenty languages.

The awards he has received include Premio Iberoamericano de Letras José Donoso, 2011; Premio Carlos Fuentes a la Creación Literaria en Idioma Español, 2014; Premio Miguel de Cervantes, 2017; the Gold Medal of the Círculo de Bellas Artes of Madrid, 2021; the Premio del Festival Ñ, 2023, and the Premio del Festival Escribidores, 2024.

Other activities involving the participant:

Two-way journeys of literary agents And a tribute to Antonia Kerrigan

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
"I'm here for you, no matter what." Friendship
Personal paradises
Speak, wish
Crossroads. Music, poetry and literature