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New masculinities: deconstructing to build better men?
New masculinities: deconstructing to build better men?
Openness to debate and the exchange of ideas are crucial to instill in our young readers the ability to analyze and understand various topics. The deconstruction of masculinities continues in this edition as part of a much broader exploration about the different edges and concerns that men go through in this new reality, and as a permanent invitation for men to listen, share and consider their role within the same patriarchal system that leads us to build, together with women, a different society from the one we know.
This conversation will be in charge of Bernardo Esquinca, author of La región crepuscular, that explores the causes of machismo in Mexico; Kirmen Uribe, author of The past life of dolphins shows us a man in search of a new masculinity; and Patricio Pron with Mañana tendremos otros nombres questions how men live these new practices of conquest and the ways of loving and being loved.
Participants: Kirmen Uribe, Patricio Pron, Bernardo Esquinca
Moderator: Daniela Catrileo
Kirmen Uribe
Invitado de HonorBasque writer based in New York, is the author of two poetry books (Meanwhile take my hand and 17 segundos, both published by Visor Poesía) and four novels (Bilbao-New York-Bilbao, Lo que mueve el mundo, La hora de despertarnos juntos and La vida anterior de los delfines, all of them by Seix Barral). His works are translated into more than 20 languages. He won the Premio Nacional de Literatura (fiction) for his first novel Bilbao-New York-Bilbao, which was a global literary event. He won the Premio Nacional de la Crítica in Basque and in 2018, he received the prestigious Cullman grant from the New York Public Library for writing his latest novel.
He has published in magazines such as The New Yorker and The Paris Review, and he is currently Writer in Residence at the University of New York (NYU), where he teaches in the MFA (Master of Fine Arts) on Creative Writing in Spanish.
At the end of 2024, Visor will publish another of his works.
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Patricio Pron
Invitado de HonorPron is the author of six books of stories, including El mundo sin las personas que lo afean y lo arruinan (2010), La vida interior de las plantas de interior (2013), Lo que está y no se usa nos fulminará (2018) y Trayéndolo todo de regreso a casa (2021); and of seven novels, including El comienzo de la primavera (2008), My fathers' ghost is climbing in the rain (2011), Nosotros caminamos en sueños (2014), Don't shed your tears for anyone who lives on these streets (2016) y Mañana tendremos otros nombres (2019), as well as the essays El libro tachado: prácticas de la negación y del silencio en la crisis de la literatura (2014) and No, no pienses en un conejo blanco: literatura, dinero, tiempo, influencia, falsificación, crítica, futuro (2022), and of the dream diary Traumbuch (2022).
His work has been recognized on numerous occasions (including with the Juan Rulfo, Cálamo and Alfaguara awards), regularly included in anthologies and translated into 12 languages; these include German, English, French, Norwegian, Dutch, Chinese, Italian and Portuguese. In 2010, the English magazine Granta selected him as one of the 22 best writers in Spanish of his generation. More recently, he was the Director's Guest at the Civitella Ranieri residence for artists, and a guest lecturer at the Literature Department of the University of Cologne.
Pron has a PhD in Romance Philology from Georg-August University in Göttingen. He lives in Madrid with his wife and two cats. In 2023, he published La naturaleza secreta de las cosas de este mundo with the Anagram publishing house.
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Bernardo Esquinca
He's a storyteller, but he'd rather be a dj, because it's always good to make people dance. He is the father of Pia, a ten-year-old girl with whom he has several rituals, including getting their nails together. Lately he writes little and plays tennis more, although in both things he does not go beyond amateur. He feels closer to Shirley Jackson than to Stephen King, and closer to David Bowie than to José Alfredo Jiménez.
Daniela Catrileo
Es escritora y profesora de filosofía. Ha publicado los libros de poesía Río herido (Edicola, 2016), Guerra florida (Del Aire, 2018), El territorio del viaje (Edicola, 2021), Las aguas dejaron de unirse a otras aguas (Pez Espiral, 2020), Todas quisimos ser el sol (Las Guachas, Argentina, 2023). El libro de relatos Piñen (Pez Espiral, 2019; Las Afueras 2022), la novela Chilco (Seix Barral, 2023) y el libro ensayo Sutura de las aguas. Un viaje especulativo sobre la impureza (Kikuyo, 2024). Recibió el Premio Municipal de Literatura de Santiago, mención poesía (2019), el Premio Mejores obras literarias, mención cuento (2020) y el primer lugar del concurso Ax: Encuentro de las Culturas Indígenas y Afrodescendiente (2020) por su obra audiovisual Llekümün.
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Latin America Viva
: FIL Guadalajara, con el apoyo del Ministerio de Cultura de España y Acción Cultural Española (AC/E), Ministerio de las Culturas, las Artes y el Patrimonio del Gobierno de Chile y Editorial Almadía