John Degen

Executive Director of the Writers' Union of Canada (TWUC) and President of the International Authors Forum (IAF) in the UK, representing over 700,000 authors worldwide. Poet and novelist. He has published three books. His essays and positions have been featured in numerous publications, including The Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, and The Author, among others. He has been a member of several literary and artistic sector boards. His debut novel, The Uninvited Guest, was shortlisted for the 2006 Canada First Novel Award.

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Panel: The Importance of Collective Action in Defending Copyrights
When the library knows that it is safeguarding the authors

Jorge Comensal

Writer and editor. He has published the novels Las mutaciones (2016), translated into a dozen languages, and Este vacío que hierve (2022), as well as the essay Yonquis de las letras (2017) and the biography El biólogo de la Revolución (2024). His essays, chronicles, and articles have appeared in magazines such as Gatopardo, Tierra Adentro, nexos, The Paris Review, and Revista de la Universidad de México, of which he is currently the director. He is a columnist for El País and Chilango, and is writing the history of the reintroduction of the California condor in Mexico.

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Written with ink and chlorophyll

Grisel Vistraín

Presidenta de la Sociedad de Artistas Visuales, S.G.C.