Rosa Montero

Invitado de Honor

She was born in Madrid and studied Journalism and Psychology. Since 1977, she has been working exclusively for the newspaper El País.

In 1978, she won the award Premio Mundo de Entrevistas, in 1980 the award Premio Nacional de Periodismo for literary articles and articles, in 2005 the award Premio de la Asociación de la Prensa de Madrid for lifetime achievement, and in 2014 the award Premio Internacional Columnistas del Mundo 2014.

Se has published the novels: Absent love: a chronicle (1979), Delta Function (1981), Te trataré como a una reina (1983), Amado Amo (1988), Temblor (1990), Beautiful and Dark (1993), La hija del caníbal (1997), El corazón del Tártaro (2001), La loca de la casa (2003), Historia del Rey Transparente (2005), Instrucciones para salvar el mundo (2008), Tears in Rain (2011), La ridícula idea de no volver a verte (2013), Weight of the Heart (2015), La carne (2016), Los tiempos del odio (2018), La buena suerte (2020), El peligro de estar cuerda (2022) and La desconocida, short story with Olivier Truc (2023).

She has also published the book of short stories Amantes y enemigos; two biographical essays, Historias de mujeres and Pasiones, as well as stories for children and compilations of interviews and articles, the last of which is Cuentos verdaderos (2024).

Her work has been translated into more than 25 languages.

She has an honorary doctorate from the University of Puerto Rico, is an honorary member of the University of Málaga (Spain) and in 2018 she was named Honorary Professor of the Academic Department of Humanities at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru.

In 2017, she received the award Premio Nacional de las Letras, and in 2022 the Medalla de Oro al Mérito de las Bellas Artes.

Other activities involving the participant:

The need to "lose one's way." Madness and creativity

Fernando Aramburu

Invitado de Honor

(San Sebastián, 1959) is the author of the storybooks Los peces de la amargura (2006, 11th Mario Vargas Llosa NH Award, 4th Dulce Chacón Award and the 2008 Spanish Royal Academy Award) and El vigilante del fiordo (2011); of the non-fiction works Las letras entornadas (2015), Autorretrato sin mí (2018), Vetas profundas (2019) and Utilidad de las desgracias (2020), as well as of the novels Fuegos con limón (1996), Los ojos vacíos (2000, Euskadi Award), El trompetista del Utopía (2003), Bami sin sombra (2005), Viaje con Clara por Alemania (2010), Años lentos (2012, 7th Tusquets Editores de Novela, and Premio de los Libreros de Madrid awards), La gran Marivián (2013), Ávidas pretensiones (2014, Premio Biblioteca Breve award) and Homeland (2016, Premio Nacional de Narrativa, Premio de la Crítica, Premio Euskadi, Premio Francisco Umbral, Premio Dulce Chacón, Premio San Clemente, Premio Strega Europeo, Premio Lampedusa, and Premio Atenas awards), translated into 35 languages and turned into a renowned series.

After this, he published Los vencejos (2021) and, as part of the series “Gentes vascas”, Hijos de la fábula (2023) and El niño (2024), confirming him as one of the great European writers. His complete poetry has been collected in Sinfonía corporal (2023).

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Portrait of a time with family

Berna González Harbour

Invitado de Honor

She is a writer, literary journalist and columnist for El País. She received the Dashiell Hammett Award in 2020 for El sueño de la razón (Destino), the latest novel in a saga starring Commissioner Ruiz, the first book of which, Verano en rojo, was made into a movie of the same name.

She writes crime novels, she created Commissioner Ruiz and is one of the “new nine” of Spanish crime literature, according to Paco Camarasa. She won the Libreros de Cantabria 2018 and José Estrañi 2019 awards, and sits on several literary juries. She is also a political analyst and cultural collaborator. She is an assistant director at El País, where she has edited Babelia and been sent to numerous countries in conflict. She hosts the program on books “¿Qué estás leyendo?”, and is a regular guest on the Hoy por hoy talk show on Cadena Ser, and on La Hora de la 1, on Televisión Española (RTVE).

This year she published the novel El Pozo (Destino) and the non-fiction work Goya en el país de los garrotazos (Arpa). She has been translated into German.

Other activities involving the participant:

The labyrinth of intrigue
Naming Central America because Central America counts
“Evil never goes unpunished” The enigmas of the crime novel