Ioana Pârvulescu

(Romania, 1960) 

A well-known and appreciated writer in Romania, she is a professor at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Bucharest, where she teaches Moderna Romanian literature and coordinates a master's degree in editing. For 18 years, she wrote a weekly chronicle in the magazine România literară (Literary Romania), and at the Publishing house Humanitas (Bucharest), she started and took care of the collection of world literature Cartea de pe noptieră (The book of the night table). Her novels have been translated into fifteen languages. In Spanish, she has been published La vida empieza el viernes (Life Begins on Friday) by Editorial Báltica (Madrid), translated by Joaquín Garrigós Bueno. In October 2024  Los inocentes,( The innocents) by Editorial Armaenia (Madrid), translated by Rafael Elias Pisot Diaz will be published.
She has twice received the European Union Prize for Literature, for the novel Life Begins on Friday (in 2013) and for the short prose A Voice (in 2018). 
Her novels in Romania are best sellers and long sellers: Life Begins on Friday (2009), Viitorul începe luni (The Future Begins on Monday)(2012), Inocenții (The Innocents)(2016), Prevestirea, (The Prophecy)(2020) and Aurul pisicii (Cat's Gold)(2024). Among her essays, the most successful have been those dedicated to everyday life: Return To The Interwar Bucharest (2003),  In the intimacy of the 19th century (2005), as well as the study of literary history Alfabetul doamnelor (The ladies' alphabet)(1999).
She has coordinated collective volumes, the most important being Și eu am trăit în comunism (I too lived under communism)(2015). She has translated authors such as Angelus Silesius, Rainer Maria Rilke, Maurice Nadeau and Milan Kundera from German and French into Romanian, as well as several albums by Astérix by René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo.
 

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:

“Evil never goes unpunished” The enigmas of the crime novel

Tomasz Rózycki

(Poland, 1970) 

Różycki writes poetry and fiction. He has published nine collections of verse (the most recent, Ręka pszczelarza [The Beekeeper’s Hand], appeared in 2022), epic poems and novels. He has won numerous literary prizes in Poland and abroad, including the Václav Burian Award (2017) and the Wisława Szymborska Award (2023). His collection of literary sketches, Błędna kartografia Europy [A False Cartography of Europe], won him the title “Ambassador of the New Europe”. Mira Rosenthal’s English translation of his poetry collection, Kolonie [Colonies], was shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize (2014). In 2023 he received the Grand Continent Prize for his book The Lightbulb Thieves. He is a former resident of the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Programme. His poetry has been translated into languages including Spanish, French, English, Bulgarian, German, Lithuanian, Russian, Slovenian and Ukrainian, and has appeared in many foreign anthologies and journals.

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Poetry Room

Ana Margarida de Carvalho

(Portugal, 1969)

Nació en Lisboa, donde se licenció en derecho y ejerció el periodismo durante 25 años. Hace crítica de cine y crónica. Su novela Que importa a fúria do mar (Teorema), recibió elogios de la crítica, fue finalista de varios premios y ganó por unanimidad el Gran Premio de Novela APE/DGLAB 2013. Su segunda novela, Não se pode morar nos olhos de um gato, fue nominada al mejor libro del año por la SPA, finalista del Premio Océanos, ganadora del Premio Literario Manuel de Boaventura y, nuevamente, el Gran Premio APE/DGLAB 2016 de Romance y Novela, entrando así en el reducido grupo de autores portugueses doblemente distinguidos. Pequenos delírios domésticos (Relógio d’Água, 2017), una colección de cuentos, ganó también el Premio de Cuento y Novela Camilo Castelo Branco/APE. O gesto que fazemos para proteger a cabeça, su tercera novela, fue finalista de prestigiosos premios. En 2023 publicó un ensayo sobre la soledad, Viver só, de la Fundación Francisco Manuel dos Santos.  Tiene dos libros infantiles: A arca do É, con ilustraciones de Sérgio Marques y A barata que acordou tranformada numa gigantesca menina, con Anna Bouza da Costa (2023).  Cartografias de lugares mal situados, 10 contos de guerra, es su libro más reciente. Y diez años después de la primera edición, Que importa a fúria do mar fue reeditada por Relógio d’Água, con prólogo y epílogo, con motivo del 50 aniversario del 25 de abril.
 

Cláudia Gavinho Burrows

Es lectora del Camões – Instituto da Cooperação e da Língua, IP (Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores, Portugal). Licenciada en ciencias políticas y relaciones internacionales y máster en traducción por la Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas de la Universidade Nova de Lisboa. Doctoranda en didáctica de la lengua portuguesa en la misma institución. Tiene el curso de formación de profesores de portugués como lengua extranjera por la Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto. Es profesora invitada de portugués lengua extranjera en la Universidad de Guadalajara. Anteriormente, se desempeñó como profesora de portugués en la Universidad de Westminster (Londres) y en la Universidad de Ain Shams (Cairo). Fue examinadora de IGCSE en Cambridge International Examinations. Antes de dedicarse a la docencia trabajó como traductora y periodista de varias revistas y periódicos portugueses e ingleses.