@charlajo_thg

Si hay una especialista en español sobre Los juegos del hambre, ¡esa es Denisse!, mejor conocida en redes sociales como @charlajo_thg, ha enfocado su contenido a hablar del universo de Suzanne Collins y el impacto que esta obra ha tenido en su vida como lectora, todo con su característico carisma. 

@ymividaenlibros

Creador de @ymividaenlibros, es un apasionado por regalarnos recomendaciones literarias mientras nos brinda una experiencia visual en videos y fotos como auditiva en su pódcast del mismo nombre. Aquí encuentras libros con representación como vivencias de lectores. 

@Anniereads

Por medio de @anniereads nos comparte reseñas que desmenuzan sus últimas lecturas, así como sus experiencias con los libros. En su cuenta podrás encontrar que es fan de Stephen King, pero también del romance, haciendo que cualquier lector pueda conectar con ella y llegar a su siguiente lectura. 

@lunacress.books

Lectora y creadora de contenido en la comunidad de booktok de 23 años. Amante de la fantasía y la ciencia ficción, sus recomendaciones literarias se enfocan en acercar a otros lectores a estos géneros. La encuentras como @lunarcress.books en TikTok, donde ya suma 99 mil seguidores. 

@Leo.con.leo

Es el autor de @leo.con.leo, un proyecto de creación de contenido literario en el que podemos encontrar una amplia gama de recomendaciones. En sus reseñas hay obras con representación, fantasía y hasta novela negra, lo que hace de su espacio una comunidad diversa. 

Mariana Palova

Autora y artista, es la escritora detrás de la exitosa serie La nación de las bestias. Ha sido ilustradora de portadas para otras novelas y es una estudiante apasionada del ocultismo, la magia y otras creencias en las que se inspira para expandir sus universos. 

@DavidHrra_

Es licenciado en ciencias de la comunicación y un lector apasionado, por ello, compartir sus experiencias lectoras en redes fue un efecto natural. En sus recomendaciones encuentras libros con representación LGBTQI+ y reflexiones sobre el acontecer de la literatura. Lo encuentras como @davidhrra_ en TikTok.

Mia Couto

He is considered a central figure in Portuguese literature. He has combined his passion for biology with his literary talent to explore issues of identity, memory and the interaction between cultures. He is the author, among other books, of the novels Sleepwalking Land, The Last Flight of the Flamingo, Confession of the Lioness and Venenos de Deus, Remédios do Diabo as well as from the short story collections Voices Made Night and Every Man Is a Race. He is the most translated Mozambican writer, his work has been translated into more than 27 languages such as Spanish, Catalan, Swedish, French, German and Italian, among others, and published in numerous countries.
Mia Couto is widely recognized for his contribution to literature in the Portuguese language and has been awarded numerous literary prizes throughout his career, the National Fiction Prize (1995), the Vergílio Ferreira Prize (1999), the Camões Prize (2013) and the Neustadt International Prize for Literature (2014). In recognition of his outstanding career, Mia Couto was appointed Commander of the Military Order of Sant'iago da Espada in 1998 and received the prestigious Camões Award in 2013. In 2022, he was honored with the title of Doctor Honoris Causa by the São Paulo State University (Unesp).
His unique style, influenced by animist realism and the regional lexicon of Mozambique, has revolutionized the African narrative in the Portuguese language. Since 1998, Mia Couto has been a corresponding member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters, occupying chair 5, whose patron is Dom Francisco de Sousa.
 

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FIL Literary Award in Romance Lenguages 2024, to Mia Couto

Ave Barrera

Ave Barrera (Guadalajara, 1980) es escritora y editora. Su primera novela, titulada Puertas demasiado pequeñas (Alianza, 2016), obtuvo el premio Sergio Galindo y se encuentra traducida al inglés como The Forgery (Charco Press, 2022). Su novela Restauración (Paraíso Perdido) obtuvo el Premio Lipp en 2018 y fue publicada en España por Editorial Contraseña. Ha publicado cuentos y ensayos en diversas antologías y medios electrónicos. Desde 2019 coordina la Colección Vindictas, de la UNAM. En 2023 recibió la beca de la Fundación Kislak para realizar una residencia de escritura en la Universidad de Florida, en la ciudad de Gainesville.

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Literature between dogs and cats

Juan Luis Arsuaga Ferreras

Invitado de Honor

Arsuaga has a PhD in Biological Sciences from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM), where he teaches Paleontology. He is the director of the UCM-Carlos III Health Institute Mixed Center for Human Evolution and Behavior. Most of his scientific career has been dedicated to the sites of the Sierra de Atapuerca, which he co-directs. He is the scientific director of the Museum of Human Evolution in Burgos.

He has received numerous awards, including: Prince of Asturias for Scientific and Technical Research; Castile and León; Community of Madrid; Sent Soví; Sociedad Geográfica Española; Ciudad de Alcalá; COSCE a la Difusión de la Ciencia; Cruz del Mérito Medioambiental de España; Medalla de Plata de la Comunidad de Madrid; GHR von Koenigswald Lecture (Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt); “Drago de Oro” from the Ateneo de Cádiz; Zilarrerezko Luma from the Bilbao Book Fair.

He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States, the Board of Directors of the Institut de Paléontologie Humaine in Paris, the Real Academia de Doctores de España, and the Reales Academias de Medicina de Zaragoza y de Andalucía Oriental.

He has been awarded honorary doctorates by the universities of Burgos, Polytechnic of Valencia and Zaragoza.

He has written hundreds of scientific publications, including eight papers in Science and ten in Nature. He has directed twenty-one doctoral theses.

His popular science books have been translated into multiple languages: Chosen species: the long march of human evolution, Neanderthal's necklace: in search of the first thinkers, Los aborígenes, Al otro lado de la niebla, Amalur. Green fire: the life force, from the atom to the mind, El reloj de Mr. Darwin, El primer viaje de nuestra vida, Breve historia de la Tierra con nosotros dentro, El sello indeleble, Vida. La gran historia, Life as told by a Sapiens to a Neanderthal, La muerte contada por un sapiens a un neandertal and Nuestro cuerpo.

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If I were a Neanderthal

Leonardo López Luján

Es arqueólogo. Director del Proyecto Templo Mayor desde 1991, ha dedicado su vida al estudio de la política, la religión y el arte de las sociedades prehispánicas del centro de México, y a la historia de la arqueología en este país. Es miembro de la Academia Mexicana de Ciencias, la Academia Mexicana de la Historia y la British Academy, así como miembro honorario de la Academia Estadounidense de las Artes y las Ciencias. En 2015 recibió el Shanghai Archaeology Forum Research Award. Ingresó a El Colegio Nacional el 15 de marzo de 2019.

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Journey to the origins of Mexican archeology

T. Kingfisher

T. Kingfisher es una de las escritoras más reconocidas y exitosas en varios géneros literarios: comic, novela gráfica, álbumes ilustrados y cuentos infantiles, así como novelas fantásticas y de terror para jóvenes y adultos. Ha ganado los principales premios que se otorgan a obras de fantasía y ciencia ficción: el Hugo en cuatro ocasiones. El Nebula, dos veces. El Lodestar, una vez. El Locus en dos ocasiones, el Mythopoeic en tres ocasiones y el Premio Dragon tres veces. 

Estudió antropología, pero le dio por hacer cómics e ilustrar libros infantiles. Publicó el épico webcómic Digger por el que fue nominada al premio Eisner y desde entonces no deja de escribir. Bajo el nombre de Ursula Vernon ha escrito más de una veintena de libros infantiles y algunas novelas gráficas e historietas. También ha sido muy prolífica y versátil en sus novelas de horror y fantasía para jóvenes y adultos que firma con el pseudónimo de T. Kingfisher (y así evitar confusiones).

Gran Travesía ha publicado tres de las obras más destacadas y premiadas de T. Kingfisher: Manual de panadería mágica para usar en caso de ataque, ganadora de los premios Andre Norton Nebula, Lodestar, Locus, Mythopoeic, Dragón y Llibreter. Ortiga y hueso que ha merecido el premio Hugo y fue finalista del Nebula y el Locus. Y Mago menor, finalista de premio Lodestar. 
 

Marta Breen

(Norway, 1976) 

Non-fiction writer and journalist. Her work focuses, above all, on women's history and feminism.
She made her literary debut in 2006, with a book focused on women and the challenges they face in the music industry. In 2014, she published the book Født Feminist (Born a feminist) and the best-selling work 60 damer du skulle ha møtt (60 women you should have heard about) in collaboration with illustrator Jenny Jordahl. The two also collaborated on the book F-ordet (With F for…), which won the Best Youth Textbook Award from the Norwegian Ministry of Culture.
The collaboration with Jordahl continued in her following works. In 2018 she presented Kvinner i kamp. 150 års kamp for frihet, likhet, søsterskap, which was translated into Spanish and was published that same year with RBA under the title Mujeres en lucha: 150 años de reivindicación feminista (Women in Battle). In this work, Breen and Jordahl show us, through the many battles won by the feminist movement, that the world for women is now a better place than it was 150 years ago, and that there is still a long way to go, and many battles to fight.
In 2019 she published the collection of essays Om muser og menn (Of Muses and Men) and in 2020 a book focusing on feminism, Hvordan bli (in skandinavisk) feminist. 20 veier til mer likestilling på jobben, i livet og i kjærligheten (How To Be a Scandinavian Feminist). 
From 2013 to 2018, Breen has preceded the Association of Norwegian Non-Fiction Writers and Translators. 

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Out loud: the feminist echo

Eva Meijer

(Netherlands, 1980) 

Eva Meijer is a philosopher, visual artist, writer and singer-songwriter. They write novels, philosophical essays, academic texts, poems and columns, and their work has been translated into over twenty languages. Recurring themes are language including silence, madness, nonhuman animals, and politics. 
Their philosophical work mostly focuses on language, democracy and social justice, with special attention for nonhuman animals and nature. Meijer currently writes columns and essays for Dutch newspaper NRC.
Their first novel Het schuwste dier (Prometheus) was published in 2011. Short stories and poems have been published in Dutch and Flemish literary magazines, such as De Revisor, Tirade and De Brakke Hond. Their second novel Dagpauwoog was published in November 2013, to critical acclaim. In 2016 the book Dierentalen (Animal Languages) was published, a popular philosophical book about nonhuman animal languages and the question what language actually is. Their third novel Het vogelhuis (Bird Cottage), was published in September 2016 and chosen as one of the books of the month by DWDD book panel on national television. It won the readers' prize of the BNG Bank Literatuurprijs. Dierentalen and Het vogelhuis are translated into Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Polish, Swedish and Turkish. In 2017 De soldaat was een dolfijn was published, an essay about political animals, which won the 2018 Hypatia prize. In 2018 Meijer won the Halewijnprijs for all their books. In 2019, De grenzen van mijn taal was published, a philosophical essay about depression. Voorwaarts, a novel, was also published that year. When animals speak: Towards an interspecies democracy, an academic book, came out in November 2019 (New York University Press) and was awarded the ASCA Book Award in 2020. In 2020 their novel De nieuwe rivier was published, a magical-realist murder mystery. In 2021 Meijer wrote the essay for the Dutch Month of Philosophy: Vuurduin. Aantekeningen bij een wereld die verdwijnt. In the same year, the novella Haar vertrouwde gedaante was published. In 2022 Meijer published three books: a novel called Zee Nu, in which the North Sea floods the Netherlands, Verwar het niet met afwezigheid. Over politieke stiltes, an essay about politics and silence, and Misschien is een ander woord voor hoop. Een pleidooi voor meerstemmigheid in het politieke en publieke debat a pamflet about the public debate, and the role of language in politics. In 2023, the poetry collection Het witste woord and the novel Dagen van glas were published.   

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The language of plants and animals
European Literature Festival

Jorge Volpi

(Mexico, 1968) is the author of 15 novels, including In spite of the dark silence (1993); the 20th-century trilogy consisting of In search of Klingsor (1999, Biblioteca Breve Award), El fin de la locura (2003) and Season of ash (2006); La tejedora de sombras (2011, Planeta-America Award); Oscuro bosque oscuro (2010); Memorial del engaño (2013); Las elegidas (2014); Una novela criminal (2018, Alfaguara Prize), which led to the Netflix documentary series of the same name, and Partes de guerra (2022).

He has also written the essays La imaginación y el poder (1998), La guerra y las palabras (2004), Mentiras contagiosas (2008, Mazatlán Award), El insomnio de Bolívar (2009, Debate-Casa de América Award), Leer la mente (2011) and Examen de mi padre (2016), and the play Las agujas dementes (2020). His most recent book is the book of stories Enrabiados (2023).

In October, Alfaguara will publish the essay La invención de todas las cosas, a history of fiction.

In 2008, he received the José Donoso Award for all his work, and the Medal of the Orden de Isabel la Católica de España. He is a Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters of France. His books have been translated into 30 languages.

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The mystery of the imagination that creates (and destroys) worlds

Rosa Beltrán

Es novelista, cuentista, ensayista, editora, fundadora de varias colecciones literarias. Ha escrito las novelas La corte de los ilusos (Premio Planeta 1995), El paraíso que fuimos (2002), Alta infidelidad (2006), Efectos secundarios (2012), El cuerpo expuesto (2013) y Radicales libres (2021). Es autora de los volúmenes de cuentos Amores que matan (1996 y 2019) y de Verdades virtuales, ensayos (2019). En colaboración con otros autores ha escrito El edén oscuro (crónicas sobre Acapulco), El nacimiento del monstruo y El Cuerpo femenino y sus narrativas.

Es autora del podcast Convers@s. Ha sido traducida al inglés, francés, italiano, holandés y esloveno y sus cuentos aparecen en numerosas antologías de distintos países. Ha recibido el reconocimiento de la American Association of University Women (AAUW), el Premio Universidad Nacional para Jóvenes Académicos en el área de creación, el Reconocimiento Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz por la UNAM, el Premio Excelencia en las Letras José Emilio Pacheco 2022 y el Distinguished Scholar por UCLA donde cursó el doctorado en Literatura Comparada.

Care Santos

Invitado de Honor

(Barcelona, Spain, 1970) is primarily known for her work as a novelist, but she also dabbles in short stories and poetry. She also has a very important career as the author of novels aimed at young readers, a field in which she is one of the most read authors in her country.

Her works include Media Vida (2017, Nadal Award), Habitaciones cerradas and El loco de los pájaros (2023, Destino). Her best-known novels for teens include the saga consisting of Mentira, Verdad, Miedo, Ben, Los Medina and Éric (Edebé), the novel Inbox (SM México) and the kids' novel Se vende mamá (Barco de Vapor Prize).

In 2020, she received the Cervantes Chico Award in recognition of her career. Her work has been translated into 23 languages.

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One Thousand Young People with Care Santos

David Lozano Garbala

Invitado de Honor

He holds a law degree from the Universidad de Zaragoza, a Master's in Communication, and has studied Hispanic Philology. He has worked as a lawyer and professor. He is the creator and coordinator of the Criticón Award for youth literature, organized by the Zaragoza City Council, and he currently balances writing with his role as a screenwriter for various production companies. In 2024, he received the XLVI Premio Gran Angular for youth literature for his novel Intruso, a recognition he also achieved in 2006 with his work Donde surgen las sombras.Additionally, in 2018, he was awarded the Edebé Prize for his novel Desconocidos, the Catalan edition of which also won the Menjallibres and Protagonista Jove awards in 2019, as well as the Frei Martín Sarmiento award in Galician. He was a finalist for the Edebé Prize for children's literature with his novel El ladrón de minutos, and he is the author of the gothic fantasy trilogy La puerta oscura.He has published novels in eleven countries (Spain, Germany, Poland, Italy, Hungary, Mexico, Chile, Argentina, Peru, Colombia, and Turkey). Specializing in the suspense genre for young readers, his most well-known titles include the novels Valkiria, Hyde, Cielo Rojo, and HerejíaLa cena más rica del mundo, La estrella invisible, El mago sin nombre y La domadora de bichosEl fantasmatrón, Las Olimpiadas Lentas and El carnaval de los sosos).

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Matters of death (or life)