Xosé Ballesteros

Invitado de Honor

Editor, writer, translator, and specialist in children's and young adult literature. He studied Philosophy at the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED). He is the co-founder and general director of Kalandraka Editora (Premio Nacional a la Mejor Labor Editorial 2012). He also directs the publishing imprints Cuatro Lunas and Faktoría K de Libros. The latter includes National Poetry Prize winners: Os ángulos da brasa (2013) by Manuel Álvarez Torneiro and Feliz Idade (2020) by Olga Novo.

He is the author of works such as Talego (Premio Manuel García Barros de Novela 1993) and Viaje a la morada de los dioses (1999). His works for children include El pequeño conejo blanco (Premio Nacional de Ilustración 1999), Tío Lobo and Imagina animales. In his role as a translator, he published a poetry anthology of Fernando Pessoa, which won the third Premio Nacional al Libro Mejor Editado in 2015, and Sobre las ruinas del mundo (2019) by Portuguese author Patricia Reis.

He has served as president of the Galician Association of Publishers (2016-2020) and as a member of the board of the Federation of Publishers' Guilds of Spain (2018-2021). He is also on the jury for the Princess of Asturias Award for Literature.

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
Latin America Viva