Luis García Montero

Invitado de Honor

(Granada, 1958) has been the director of the Instituto Cervantes since 2018. He is a professor of Spanish Literature at the University of Granada.

The awards he has received include: Premio Adonáis (1982), Premio Nacional de Literatura (1994), Premio Nacional de la Crítica (2003), Premio del Gremio de Libreros de Madrid (2009), Premio Poetas del Mundo Latino (2010, México), Premio Paralelo 0 (2018, Ecuador), Golden Antelope International Poetry Prize (2021, China) and Premio Montale Fuori di Casa (2023, Italy).

His poetry books include Y ahora ya eres dueño del Puente de Brooklyn (1980), El jardín extranjero (1983), Habitaciones separadas (1980), Completamente viernes (1998), La intimidad de la serpiente (2003), Vista cansada (2008), A puerta cerrada (2017), No puedes ser así. Breve historia del mundo (2021), Un año y tres meses (2022) and Almudena (2024).

In non-fiction, he has published ¿Por qué no es útil la literatura? (1993, in collaboration with Antonio Muñoz Molina), Un lector llamado Federico García Lorca (2016), Las palabras rotas (2019) and La realidad de una esperanza. Galdós, la memoria y la poesía (2020), and critical editions of García Lorca (1992 y 2017), Alberti (1988), Carlos Barral (1997) and Luis Rosales (2005).

He is the author of the novels Impares, fila 13 (written with Felipe Benítez Reyes); Mañana no será lo que Dios quiera (2009), a novelized biography of Ángel González; No me cuentes tu vida (2012) and Someone speaks your name (2014).

He has studied the work of authors such as Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, Rosalía de Castro, Rafael Alberti, Federico García Lorca, Luis Rosales, Rubén Bonifaz Nuño, Francisco Ayala and José Emilio Pacheco. He also has honorary degrees from the universities of San Agustín and Ricardo Palma (Peru), Pontificia Católica Universidad de Valparaíso (Chile) and Córdoba (Argentina), and is an honorary professor at the University of Mar del Plata (Argentina).

He recently received the Premio Internacional Carlos Fuentes a la Creación Literaria (2024) in the Spanish Language, awarded by the Secretariat of Culture and the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).

Other activities involving the participant:

Writing goodbye
"Cry to Rome", a poem by Federico García Lorca. Published in native languages
Spanish in the world

Jordi Gracia

Invitado de Honor

(Barcelona, 1965)

He is an essayist, professor of Spanish Literature at the Universidad de Barcelona, deputy to the director of El País and co-director of TintaLibre. He has written several books on the intellectual and literary history of Spain in the 20th century, a biography of Cervantes titled Miguel de Cervantes.La conquista de la ironía (2016), and one of José Ortega y Gasset in the collection of biographies “Españoles eminentes”. In 2004, he received the Premio Anagrama de Ensayo for La resistencia silenciosa. Fascismo y cultura en España, where he addressed, among other topics, how the Spanish exile is perceived from within. With A la intemperie. Exilio y cultura en España (2010), he reconstructs, through letters, books, and documents dating from 1939, the behaviors and emotions of Spanish exiles who adapted to their new environments.

 He has also dedicated works to Dionisio Ridruejo, including La vida rescatada de Dionisio Ridruejo. Other notable publications include Javier Pradera o el poder de la izquierda.Medio siglo de cultura democrática, El intelectual melancólico. Un panfleto and Contra la izquierda. Para seguir siendo de izquierdas en el siglo XXI.

Other activities involving the participant:

Crossroads. Journalism and literature