Dolores Redondo

Invitado de Honor

(Donostia-San Sebastián, 1969) is the author of the Baztán Trilogy, the most important literary phenomenon in Spanish of recent times: El guardián invisible, Legado en los huesos and Ofrenda a la tormenta. The three film adaptations were successfully launched between 2017 and 2020 and are currently available on Netflix. The trilogy was followed by All this I will give to you (2016 Planeta Award), the best-selling novel to have won this award in recent years and the subject of a television series adaptation by France Télévisions.

In 2019, she returned to the Baztán universe with North face of the heart, which, together with the Baztán Trilogy, will inspire a series produced in the United States and Great Britain, a landmark in contemporary Spanish fiction. Esperando al diluvio is her latest novel, also in the process of being adapted for the screen. In 2021, Los privilegios del ángel, her first novel, was republished. Today, her works have been translated into 38 languages all over the world, and boast more than 4 million readers.

Other activities involving the participant:

European Literature Festival

Berna González Harbour

Invitado de Honor

She is a writer, literary journalist and columnist for El País. She received the Dashiell Hammett Award in 2020 for El sueño de la razón (Destino), the latest novel in a saga starring Commissioner Ruiz, the first book of which, Verano en rojo, was made into a movie of the same name.

She writes crime novels, she created Commissioner Ruiz and is one of the “new nine” of Spanish crime literature, according to Paco Camarasa. She won the Libreros de Cantabria 2018 and José Estrañi 2019 awards, and sits on several literary juries. She is also a political analyst and cultural collaborator. She is an assistant director at El País, where she has edited Babelia and been sent to numerous countries in conflict. She hosts the program on books “¿Qué estás leyendo?”, and is a regular guest on the Hoy por hoy talk show on Cadena Ser, and on La Hora de la 1, on Televisión Española (RTVE).

This year she published the novel El Pozo (Destino) and the non-fiction work Goya en el país de los garrotazos (Arpa). She has been translated into German.

Other activities involving the participant:

The labyrinth of intrigue
Naming Central America because Central America counts
Opening of the Carlos Fuentes Literary Lounge

César Pérez Gellida

Valladolid, 1974. Ha publicado trece novelas, entre ellas las que componen las trilogías Versos, canciones y trocitos de carne (Memento mori, Dies irae, Consummatum est) y Refranes, canciones y rastros de sangre (Sarna con gusto, Cuchillo de palo, A grandes males); y otras como Todo lo mejor y Todo lo peor. Entre las más recientes, Nos crecen los enanos, Astillas en la piel y La suerte del enano.
En 2023 se ha estrenado la adaptación para serie de televisión de Memento mori. Es uno de los mayores referentes de la novela negra, con más de 300 mil lectores, y dirige junto con Dolores Redondo el festival literario Blacklladolid. Bajo tierra seca se alza con el Premio Nadal 2024.