Dylan Brennan

(Ireland)

Brennan divides his time between Mexico and Ireland and writes poetry and prose. He was the winner of the Ireland Chair of Poetry Bursary Award. In 2022, he won the inaugural Drumshanbo Written Word Weekend Poetry Film Award for Four Attempts at Making a Human, a poetry film in collaboration with Jonathan Brennan. He has read at literary festivals in Colombia, Nicaragua, Mexico, Italy, Ireland and the United States and has twice received a Culture Ireland Travel Grant. His work has been translated into Spanish, Italian, Galician and Greek. His most recent book, Let the Dead (2023), is available from Banshee Press.

Claudia Durastanti

(United States of America, 1984)

Claudia Durastanti is the author of five novels. She is the Italian translator of Elizabeth Hardwick, Joshua Cohen, Donna Haraway and writes for several literary supplements. Strangers I Know (Premio Strega Off in 2019, Pen Translates Award, longlist Prix Femina and Prix Les Inrockuptibles) has been translated into twenty-one languages. Missitalia (La Nave di Teseo, Premio Mondello 2024) will be published by Anagrama in Spain. She currently lives in Rome and curates the feminist imprint La Tartaruga.

Other activities involving the participant:

The Roma-Milan is Killing Us. Where does the new Italian literature come from?

Neige Sinno

(France, 1977)

She was born in 1977 in the Hautes-Alpes region. She lived in the United States for a while and currently resides in Mexico with her partner and her daughter. She is a translator and has published the short story collection La Vie des rats (2007), the literary essay Lectores entre líneas: Roberto Bolaño, Ricardo Piglia y Sergio Pitol (Aldus, 2011, Lya Kostakowsky Prize) and the novel Le Camion (2018). After its launch in France, Triste tigre, a non-fiction text that deals with the systematic sexual violence she suffered as a child, she immediately became the publishing phenomenon of the year and has received multiple awards, including in 2023 the Prix littéraire Le Monde; the Prix Blù Jean-Marc Roberts; the Prix Les Inrockuptibles; the Prix Goncourt des lycéens; the Prix Femina and in 2024 in its Italian translation the European Strega Award.

Deniz Utlu

Utlu studied economics in Berlin and Paris. He is the author of several novels and lives in Berlin. He has received several awards, such as the Alfred Döblin, the Literatour Nord and the Bavarian Book Prize. From 2003 to 2014 he edited the culture and society magazine freitext. Since 2013 he has been the curator of a literary series at the Maxim Gorky Theater and a researcher at the German Institute for Human Rights.

Sergio Vila-Sanjuán

Invitado de Honor

Journalist, novelist and playwright, and he manages the Cultura/s supplement of La Vanguardia.He is the author of the fiction trilogy consisting of Una heredera de Barcelona, Estaba en el aire (2013 Nadal Award), and El informe Casabona, which combines family memory and chronicles of the time. He has also written the plays El club de la escalera and La agente literaria, which recently premiered at the Teatre Akadèmia in Barcelona.

He has published several books on literary, publishing and artistic topics, such as Pasando página, El síndrome de Frankfurt, Código best seller and Vargas Llosa sube al escenario, and the biography El joven Porcel. His latest book is Cultura española en democracia. Una crónica breve de 50 años 1975-2024 (Destino).

He was the curator of the Year of the Book and Reading 2005, and is a member of the Real Academia de Buenas Letras de Barcelona. He received the 2020 Premio Nacional de Periodismo Cultural and the José Luis Giménez-Frontín Award from the Association of Writers of Catalonia (ACEC) for dialogue between cultures.

Other activities involving the participant:

Exploring of the outside from within
Meetings (and misunderstandings). Cultural journalism in an era of excess
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