Daniela Catrileo

Es escritora y profesora de filosofía. Ha publicado los libros de poesía Río herido (Edicola, 2016), Guerra florida (Del Aire, 2018), El territorio del viaje (Edicola, 2021), Las aguas dejaron de unirse a otras aguas (Pez Espiral, 2020), Todas quisimos ser el sol (Las Guachas, Argentina, 2023). El libro de relatos Piñen (Pez Espiral, 2019; Las Afueras 2022), la novela Chilco (Seix Barral, 2023) y el libro ensayo Sutura de las aguas. Un viaje especulativo sobre la impureza (Kikuyo, 2024). Recibió el Premio Municipal de Literatura de Santiago, mención poesía (2019), el Premio Mejores obras literarias, mención cuento (2020) y el primer lugar del concurso Ax: Encuentro de las Culturas Indígenas y Afrodescendiente (2020) por su obra audiovisual Llekümün. 

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Latin America Viva
New masculinities: deconstructing to build better men?

María Sánchez

Invitado de Honor

Veterinarian and writer. She works with endangered native breeds, advocating for other forms of production and husbandry, such as agroecology, grazing and extensive rearing. She regularly appears in the media to discuss literature, feminism, extensive rearing, food and culture, and rural topics.

She is the author of the poem collections Cuaderno de campo and Fuego la sed, and of the books Tierra de mujeres: una mirada íntima y familiar al mundo rural, and Almáciga. Her books have been translated into several languages.

She has received different awards, including the INJUVE Premio Nacional de Juventud de Cultura, for contributing, through her poetry, "to raising awareness in a model and innovative way of the need to maintain rural life"; the 2023 Andalusia Medal for Environmental Merit, and the 44th Julio Camba Afundación International Journalism Award. 

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Rain without ice, please: the world is thirsty

Gabi Martínez

Invitado de Honor

She is a writer. His work, translated in 10 countries and adapted to various narrative formats, has received numerous awards and acknowledgements, especially his non-fiction books, In the land of giants, Un cambio de verdad, En la Barrera, Naturalmente urbano, Lagarta and the novels Sudd, Voy and Las defensas. Delta was chosen the best book of 2023 by the literary magazine WMagazín.

Protagonist of the episode Colombian massif in the documentary series Finding Encanto, awarded a Dolphin at the Cannes Festival.

He is the director of the Liternatura Festival, a founding member of the Caravana Negra and Lagarta Fernández associations, of the Urban and Territorial Ecology Foundation, and co-director of the project “Invisible Animals”.

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Rain without ice, please: the world is thirsty
The Pleasure of Reading Gala