Santiago Wills

(1988). Es un escritor y periodista colombiano. Estudió filosofía en la Universidad Nacional. Cursó una maestría en periodismo en la Universidad de Columbia, y una maestría en escritura creativa en la Universidad de Nueva York, con una beca Fulbright. Ha sido tres veces ganador del Premio Nacional de Periodismo Simón Bolívar; dos veces parte de la selección oficial del Premio Gabo, y dos veces finalista del True Story Award. Jaguar, su primera novela, fue semifinalista del Premio Herralde. Desde 2021 trabaja en un libro de crónicas sobre el jaguar y su relación con América gracias a la beca Michael Jacobs de periodismo de viajes del Hay Festival y la Fundación Gabo. Vive en Bogotá con su perro borzoi Quijote. 

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Poetics and aesthetics of La vorágine

Magela Baudoin

Es escritora, periodista y editora boliviana-venezolana. Autora del libro de entrevistas Mujeres de costado (2010); de la novela El sonido de la H, Premio Nacional de Novela 2014 (Bolivia); y de los libros de cuentos La composición de la sal, Premio Hispanoamericano de Cuento Gabriel García Márquez (2015), y Vendrá la muerte y tendrá tus ojos, finalista del VI Premio Ribera del Duero-Páginas de Espuma en España (2020). Solo vuelo en tu caída (nouvelle), ilustrada por la artista Alejandra Alarcón, fue publicada en Argentina en 2023. Es directora y coautora del libreto de la ópera de cámara Matilde en las ojeras de la noche (2023). Su obra ha sido traducida al inglés, portugués y árabe. Recibió el Premio Anna Seghers 2021. Dirige junto con Giovanna Rivero y Ximena Santaolalla la Editorial Mantis (Bolivia), especializada en publicar la obra de escritoras hispanoamericanas. 

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The Pleasure of Reading Gala

Djamila Ribeiro

(Brazil, 1980)

Djamila Ribeiro holds a degree in Philosophy and a master’s degree in Political Philosophy from the Federal University of São Paulo. She is the coordinator of Feminismos Plurais, which includes the Feminismos Plurais Space, the Feminismos Plurais online platform, and the Sueli Carneiro editorial label, which publishes the Feminismos Plurais book collection.
She is the author of the books Lugar de Fala (Jandaíra/Feminismos Plurais), Quem tem medo do Feminismo Negro?, Pequeno Manual Antirracista, and Cartas para minha avó (Companhia das Letras), as well as Diálogos Transatlânticos (Editions Anacaona), which have been translated into several languages. She is also a guest professor at New York University (NYU) and the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (PUC-SP).
Since 2022, she has been a member of the Paulista Academy of Letters, occupying chair No. 28, and serves as a board member for the Padre Anchieta Foundation, the Pinacoteca of São Paulo, and the University of São Paulo’s Fund for students racial and gender equity. She is a columnist for the newspaper Folha de S. Paulo and served as the Deputy Secretary for Human Rights of São Paulo in 2016. She was awarded the Prince Claus Award in 2019 by the Kingdom of the Netherlands and was recognized by the BBC as one of the 100 most influential women in the world.
In 2020, she won the Jabuti Prize, the most prestigious literary award in Brazil, in the Humanities category for Pequeno Manual Antirracista. In 2021, she became the first Brazilian in history to be honored by the BET Awards, granted by the African American community in the United States. In 2023, she received the Franco-German Prize for Human Rights.

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Djamila Ribeiro reads Cartas para mi abuela

Vivian Lavín

(Santiago de Chile, 1967) is a journalist, writer, literary agent, and editor with over 20 years of experience in the cultural field.

In 2001, she launched the project Vuelan las plumas, the oldest literary program in Chilean broadcasting, which is also shared across a network of associated media outlets.

She has written three books of interviews with prominent Chilean and Latin American artists, intellectuals, and scientists. She is the author of Pisaremos las calles nuevamente (Editorial Cuatro Lunas, 2023).

She was a member of the jury for the Premio Iberoamericano de Narrativa Manuel Rojas 2016. She is a member of the Public Libraries Recommendation Committee of Chile and the Book and Reading Observatory.

She has been recognized by prestigious institutions such as the Society of Chilean Writers (2005), the Chilean Book Chamber (2009), and the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Chile (2010). She has also received the Premio a la Excelencia Periodística Pobre el que no cambia de mirada (2009) and the Alejandro Silva de la Fuente Award from the Chilean Academy of Language (2017).

Other activities involving the participant:

The Pleasure of Reading Gala
International Compostela Award for Illustrated Albums