Elizabeth Duval

Invitado de Honor

Elizabeth Duval (Madrid, 2000) graduated in Philosophy at the Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne and French Language and Literature in the Université Paris III Sorbonne Nouvelle and is a regular contributor in national media outlets like eldiario.es, Público, El País, CTXT, La Sexta TV or PlayZ by RTVE.
She writes poetry, prose, theater, and essay and explores the intersection between text and audiovisual media. In 2017, she was featured on the cover of the journal Tentaciones with a report entitled “The Future is Trans,” and she has been a visible activist in this movement since the age of fourteen.
In 2020 she published Reina (PRH-Caballo de Troya), the first memoir Spain by a woman from Generation Z, as well as Exception (Letraversal), a long poem about the streets on fire. In 2021 she published the essay Después de lo trans (La Caja Books, 2021), and the novel Madrid será la tumba (Lengua de Trapo, 2021) that has was praised by critics and readers alike.
In 2023 she published Melancolía (Temas de Hoy, 2023), a sociopolitical essay on how to recover hope when facing a grim future.

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Alana S. Portero

Invitado de Honor

(Madrid, 1978) has a degree in History, specializing in the Middle Ages, from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM). She is a writer, playwright, scriptwriter, stage director and co-founder of the STRIGA theater company. She has collaborated with media outlets, including Agente Provocador, El Salto, SModa, Icon and Vogue; she writes in the culture section of El Diario and the opinion section of Público. She has created content on Patreon since 2018.

She has written four poetry books: Fantasmas (2010), Irredento (2011), La próxima tormenta (2013) and La habitación de las ahogadas (2017), and two plays: Música silenciosa (2009) and Hambre (2016), a play based on Blasted, by Sarah Kane.

In 2023, she published with Seix Barral La mala costumbre, her first novel, which has been translated into 15 languages and published in 18 countries. She has also received the prizes: Time Out 2023 for best work, Cálamo 2023 for book of the year, Javier Morote for best new author in 2023, and Openbank Literature by Vanity Fair for book of the year 2023.

She received the Arcoiris award from the Ministry of Equality in 2023 for showcasing trans women in her work.

She lives and works in Madrid.

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Ale Solares

Ale Solares, de @libroslibroslibros, es una creadora de contenido que busca diversificar las lecturas actuales. En sus cuentas promueve y da voz a historias con representación LGBTQ+, y temas feministas; le gusta leer de todo y distribuirlo con su comunidad de más de 700 mil seguidores. Se considera una persona muy activa que también disfruta ser bailarina, los viajes y la Fórmula 1; lleva más de tres años en busca de historias diversas para compartirlas, y darle así un lugar seguro a su comunidad fomentando la lectura.

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