Liliana Blum

She loves to adopt dogs from the street, feed pigeons, watch horror movies, and combine coffee with cookies, pastries or cake. She was born in Durango, in 1974, and although almost no one knows her city, she really likes it. As a narrator she has published the novels El extraño caso de Lenny Goleman (Young Planet, 2022), Cara de liebre (Seix Barral, 2020), El monstruo pentápodo (Bordes, 2019; Tusquets, 2017), Pandora (MaxiTusquets, 2020; Tusquets, 2015) and the books of short stories Un descuido cósmico (Tusquets, 2023), Todas hemos perdido algo (Tusquets, 2020), Tristeza de los cítricos (Páginas de Espuma, 2019), No me pases de largo (Literal Publishing, 2013), Residuos de espanto (Ficticia Editorial, 2012), Yo sé cuándo expira la leche (Instituto Municipal de Cultura de Durango, 2011), The curse of Eve and other stories (Host Publications, 2008), Vidas de catálogo (Fondo Editorial Tierra Adentro, 2007), ¿En qué se nos fue la mañana? (Instituto Tamaulipeco para la Cultura y las Artes, 2005) y La maldición de Eva (Ediciones de Barlovento, 2003). She studied comparative literature at The University of Kansas, and has a master's degree in education with a specialty in humanities from the Institute of Technology and Superior Studies of Monterrey. 

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Literature with eggs and machaca
Literature between dogs and cats

Najat El Hachmi

Invitado de Honor

Najat El Hachmi was born in Nador (Morocco) in 1979 and moved to Spain when she was eight years old. She has a degree in Arab Studies from the University of Barcelona.
Among her published works, one should mention her novels L’últim patriarca (Planeta, 2008), a debut that won the Ramon Llull Prize and the Prix Ulysse, La filla estrangera (Edicions 62- Destino, 2015 – winner of the Sant Joan Novel Award and the Barcelona City Award) and Mare de llet i de mel, (Edicions 62, 2018). All of them have been widely translated.
After the publication on the celebrated Feminist essay, Sempre han parlat per nosaltres (Edicions 62-Destino, 2019), her latest published work is the novel Dilluns ens estimaran (Edicions 62, Destino, 2021) that received the prestigious Nadal Novel Award 2021.

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One-way trip from nowhere

Manel Loureiro

(Spain, 1975) 

He is a writer, lawyer and television host who has also worked as a screenwriter on numerous projects. He currently collaborates as an article writer in different national print media, in addition to acting as a host on Television of Galicia (TVG) and as a commentator on Radio Nacional de España.

His first novel, Apocalypse Z:. The Beginning of the End, started as an Internet blog that he wrote in his spare time. The blog became a viral phenomenon with more than one and a half million readers online and the novel was published in 2007, becoming a bestseller. His following works, Dark Days, The Wrath of the Just , The Last Passenger, Only She Sees, Veinte, La puerta and La ladrona de huesos have been bestsellers, both in Spain and in many other countries around the world. Manel Loureiro is one of the few contemporary Spanish authors who has managed to place his books on the list of the best sellers in the United States. His novel, La ladrona de huesos, with more than 250 thousand readers, has consolidated him as a reference author in the Spanish and international literary scene. 
Manel Loureiro gives a definitive turn to the thriller with his new novel, Cuando la tormenta pase, winner of the Fernando Lara Award 2024.
Currently, several of his novels are in the process of adaptation to the big screen or pending release. Manel continues to live in Galicia, preparing new stories.

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Making a living from writing: Different ways to become a professional writer

Elma Correa

She's a storyteller. She coordinates an international writers' meeting in Baja California and manages @habitaciones_propias, a virtual community where the women of the world share the spaces where they create. She has a degree in Spanish language and literature , a master in sociocultural studies and doctor in society, space and power. She teaches at the Faculties of Arts, Pedagogy and Human Sciences of the Autonomous University of Baja California (UABC) and teaches creative writing workshops. She has been a fellow of the Stimulus Program for Artistic Creation and Development of Baja California (PECDABC) and the National Fund for Culture and the Arts (FONCA). Her texts have been published in national and international journals, and have been included in various anthologies. She compiled Vacunas contra la poesía (SCBC, 2020), the Mexican section of Frontera Norte. Antología de narrativa chilena y mexican (Cinosargo, 2020), Ni una sola palabra (UANL, 2021) y Mexicanas 2 (Fondo Blanco, 2022). She wrote Que parezca un accidente (Nitro/Press, 2018), Mentiras que no te conté (UDG, 2021) with which she received the XX Juan José Arreola National Short Story Award; Llorar de fiesta (BUAP, 2022), Lo simple (INBAL, 2023) San Luis Potosí Amparo Dávila Fine Arts Short Story Award 2022, and La novia del león (Nitro/Press, 2024). 

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Literature with eggs and machaca
Annual International Storytellers Conference
Literature between dogs and cats