- [1] Thursday at 12:30–13:30, TEATRO HEREDIA
Boleros and literature
Joaquín Sabina and Joan Manuel Serrat
in conversation with Roberto Pombo
Two living legends of Spanish music, singer-songwriters Joan Manuel
Serrat and Joaquín Sabina, will talk to Roberto Pombo about
popular music, boleros and their reciprocal influence on literature.
- [2] Thursday at 12:30–13:30, CASA MAPFRE
Manufacturers of culture: Public and private institutions in Latin American cultural life
Paula Marcela Moreno Zapata (Minister for Culture in Colombia), Rosa Conde (Fundación Carolina), Pablo Jiménez Burillo (Fundación MAPFRE) and Juan Cambiaso (patron of the Museo del Prado and the ArteBA art fair), chaired by Octavio Arbeláez.
A conversation between representatives from institutions on both sides of the Atlantic currently fomenting cultural activity in Latin America. The panel will discuss the criteria for their strategies, cooperation mechanisms, general trends in cultural sponsorship and prospects for the future.
- [3] Thursday at 15:30–16:30, TEATRO HEREDIA
Literature and travel writing
Julio Villanueva Chang, H. C. Buch, José Ovejero and Jon Lee Anderson.
Literature, especially travel writing, is an invitation to embark on a journey to a place generally unknown to us, which unfolds when we begin reading. Julio Villanueva Chang, founding editor of the magazine Etiqueta Negra, journalist and contributor to publications such as Público, Soho and the Culturas supplement of La Vanguardia, Hans Christrop Buch, author and travel writer, and Jon Lee Anderson, a contributing journalist to The New Yorker and author of The Fall of Baghdad, and José Ovejero, Spanish writer winner of the Grandes Viajeros and Primavera de novella prizes, in conversation.
- [4] Thursday at 15:30–16:30, CLAUSTRO DE SANTO DOMINGO, SALÓN REY
Scenes from daily life
Ricardo Silva, Pedro Mairal and Fernando Quiróz with Juan David Correa
The participants, Ricardo Silva, author of El hombre de los mil nombres, Pedro Mairal, Argentinian writer and author of El año del desierto and Fernando Quiróz, writer, journalist and contributor to Soho magazine, will reflect on the insignificance of daily life as a literary theme to the detriment of major events with Juan David Correa, editor of Arcadia.
- [5] Thursday at 15:30–16:30, UNIVERSIDAD DE CARTAGENA, CLAUSTRO DE LA MERCED
The global government and the challenges of international development
Francisco Panniza, Jorge Volpi and Aminatta Forna with Rosa Conde
Francisco Panniza, an expert in international relations at the London School of Economics, Jorge Volpi, writer, and Aminatta Forna, writer, journalist and a regular contributor to several British media outlets, will talk to Rosa Conde and discuss the recently questioned role of international and financial institutions such as the UN, the World Bank, the World Trade Organisation and the International Monetary Fund. What role should global institutions play in solving the most pressing problems in a globalised world, with a growing gap between rich and poor countries and the instability affecting many regions of the world?
Organised in collaboration with the Fundación Carolina (Carolina Foundation) and with the support of the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Simultaneous translation into Spanish will be provided
- [6] Thursday at 15:30–16:30, CASA MAPFRE
Workshop with Samarys Polo (Hay Festivalito: Hay Festival for kids)
Words from a playful perspective: words at play, a round, a tongue twister ... it’s going to be a long one.
For children between the ages of 7 and 14
- [7] Thursday at 17:30–18:30, TEATRO HEREDIA
Paul Preston: Chronicles and novels
Juanita León, Fernando Quiróz and Germán Castro Caycedo with Jaime Abello
Juanita León, writer and journalist, Fernando Quiróz, writer, journalist and contributor to Soho magazine and Germán Castro Caycedo, a Colombian writer and journalist, winner of the ‘Premio de Periodismo’ (Journalism Prize) in 2005 awarded by the publishing house Editorial Planeta, will talk about how literary chronicles reach places literature cannot. Chaired by Jaime Abello Banfi, Executive Director of the Fundación Nuevo Periodismo Iberoamericano (Foundation for a New Iberio-American Journalism), created in Cartagena on the initiative of Gabriel García Márquez.
- [8] Thursday at 17:30–18:30, CLAUSTRO DE SANTO DOMINGO, PATIO
Alma Guillermoprieto in conversation with Claudio López Lamadrid
Alma is perhaps the most read journalist in the USA on the subject of South America, which is the focus of most of her work as she herself confesses in the prologue to her book The Heart That Bleeds. She has worked as a journalist for 30 years, starting in 1978 with The Guardian, The Washington Post and Newsweek, and currently writes for The New Yorker and The New York Review of Books. She has received several prizes including the María Moors Cabot in 1990, the Media Prize of the Latin American Studies Association in 1992 and a scholarship with the Nieman Foundation for Journalists from Harvard University in 2004. She is a trained contemporary dancer, and published her last book, Dancing with Cuba: A Memoir of the Revolution, in 2004.
In conversation with her editor, Claudio López Lamadrid.
- [9] Thursday at 19:00, CLAUSTRO DE SANTO DOMINGO, SALÓN REY
Screening of the film Battle for Haditha, introduced by Director Nick Broomfield
Nick Broomfield, award-winning director of Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer and Biggie and Tupac, presents his latest film, Battle for Haditha, based on real events that took place in Iraq in 2005. Haditha was, to many, the moment the war was lost: the propaganda plugging America as a force for good came up starkly against reality
Both Battle for Haditha (2007) and Ghosts (2006) have been screened at the San Sebastian Film Festival. A great opportunity to see the film and hear the director's tale, chaired by Diana Quick.
- [10] Thursday at 19:30-20:30, CASA MAPFRE
Translator, traitor or creator?
Ariel Magnus, Claudia Amengual and Álvaro Enrigue with Margarita Valencia
The task of the translator has always been a complex and controversial one. Ariel Magnus, winner of the ‘Novela Breve Juan de Castellanos’ (Novella) award in 2007, Claudia Amengual, writer, translator and author of Desde las cenizas and Álvaro Enrique, author of La muerte de un instalador and editor of the magazine Letras Libres, will discuss the difficulties involved in translating literary texts and the possibility (or impossibility) of translating, as well as the new creation itself that is translation. Chaired by Margarita Valencia.
Simultaneous translation into Spanish will be provided.
- [11] Thursday at 19:30–20:30, TEATRO HEREDIA
Favourite Book Gala
Writers Ariel Magnus, Kiran Desai, João Paulo Cuenca, Peter Ho Davies, Jonathan Levi and Homero Aridjis will share with the audience their views about the books they have enjoyed most as readers. Chaired by the writer Guido Tamayo..
Simultaneous translation into Spanish will be provided
- [12] Thursday at 21:00, PLAZA DE LA ADUANA SQUARE
Baaba Maal in concert
The legendary Senegalese superstar, regarded by Rolling Stone magazine as ‘one of the most extraordinary voices in popular music’ and winner of the BBC World Music Award in 2005 for Best Album, will present his special blend of traditional African music, jazz, electronica, blues and rock, accompanied by his fantastic troupe of musicians and dancers. His live concert at the famous Glastonbury Festival in 2005 was described as the best performance there.
- [13] Friday at 10:30–11.30, UNIVERSIDAD TECNOLÓGICA, AUDITORIO JORGE TAUA
Literature and the environment
Belén Gopegui, Homero Aridjis and William Ospina with Raquel Martinez-Gómez
In recent years, concern over the deterioration of the environment, for the global public good, has been portrayed in the creative sphere. In literature in particular, this issue has been depicted by authors as one of the contradictions of contemporary times. The guests will reflect on the challenges humanity faces in this regard and take a look at the portrayal of environmental problems in literature. Belén Gopegui, writer, scriptwriter and author of the award-winning novel La escala de los mapas and El padre de Blancanieves, frequent media contributor on issues related to the environment; Homero Aridjis, poet, writer, winner of the Millennium Award for International Environmental Leadership in 2002 (awarded by Global Green) and Mexican ambassador to UNESCO; and William Ospina, poet, essayist, translator and author of América mestiza, el país del futuro (Mestizo America: The Country of the Future) will talk to Raquel Martinez-Gómez (Fundación Carolina).
Organised in collaboration with the Fundación Carolina
- [14] Friday at 10:30–11:30, CASA MAPFRE
The influence of José Ortega y Gasset in Latin America
Jorge Edwards with Fernando Rodríguez Lafuente
Chilean writer Jorge Edwards and Fernando Rodríguez Lafuente, deputy editor-in-chief of the newspaper ABC and editor of the culture supplement ABCD de las Artes y las Letras, will talk about the most influential Spanish philosopher of the first half of the 20th century, both in Spain and internationally.
- [15 ] Friday at 10:30–11:30, TEATRO HEREDIA
Baaba Maal in conversation with Owen Sheers
Baaba Maal is one of the most committed international musicians and is working on a cultural and humanitarian project called Africa 2015 alongside other internationally renowned great musicians, such as Bono from U2. He has been a UN ambassador in Africa as well as an AIDS and anti-hunger activist, collaborating, amongst others, with the NGO Oxfam. He will talk to Peter Florence about the challenges the African continent faces in the new millennium in terms of education, health and society.
Simultaneous translation into Spanish will be provided
- [16] Friday at 10.30–11:30, BIBLIOTECA BARTOLOMÉ CALVO, CASA DE BOLÍVAR
Building a world of readers: Literature for children and young people
Wendy Guerra, Ana María Moix, Jorge Franco y Juan Gossaín
Samarys Polo, Aída Marcuse and Yolanda Reyes in conversation with Conrado Zuluaga.
For all ages
- [17] Friday at 12:30–13:30, TEATRO HEREDIA
The art of storytelling
Wendy Guerra, Ana María Moix, Jorge Franco and Juan Gossaín
The judges of the first Concurso Nacional de Cuento (National Short Story Competition), organised by RCN and the Ministry of National Education, held in honour of the Colombian Nobel prize winner Gabriel García Márquez, will share what drives them to write, what their early days as writers were like and what has kept them writing and telling stories over the years with the audience and the thirty winners of the competition. The young winners will receive a diploma.
- [18] Friday at 12:30–13:30, CLAUSTRO DE SANTO DOMINGO, SALÓN REY
Jorge Herralde in conversation with Mario Jursich
Jorge Herralde, one of the most independent and prestigious contemporary publishers, will talk about Anagrama, his publishing house, and reveal the secrets of his trade to Mario Jursich, editor of El Malpensante magazine.
- [19] Friday at 14:00–17:00, CASA MAPFRE
Workshop with Andrew Ruhemann
The famous animation producer and creator of the image of the Gorillaz characters, a virtual band formed by the singers of groups Blur (Damon Albarn) and The Good, The Bad And The Queen and producer of the animation of the film Who Framed Roger Rabbit? will run a workshop aimed at children.
- [20] Friday at 15:30–16:30, BIBLIOTECA BARTOLOMÉ CALVO, CASA DE BOLÍVAR
These three writers of children’s and teenage fiction will talk about the art of constructing stories, characters, and plots.
For all ages
- [21] Friday at 15:30–16:30, TEATRO HEREDIA
Biography: A major genre
Jon Lee Anderson, and Alberto Barrera with Jaime Abello
Biography, sometimes unfairly dismissed, requires deep analysis, not only of a character but also of historical circumstances; the research work and creative process it entails make it a major genre. Jon Lee Anderson, journalist for The New Yorker magazine, writer and author of profiles of Che Guevara, Fidel Castro, Gabriel García Márquez and Saddam Hussein, amongst others, and Alberto Barrera, poet, narrator and author of Hugo Chávez sin uniforme. Una historia personal, will talk to Jaime Abello Banfi, Executive Director of the Fundación Nuevo Periodismo Iberoamericano (Foundation for a New Iberio-American Journalism), created in Cartagena on the initiative of Gabriel García Márquez.
- [22] Friday at 15:30–16:30, CLAUSTRO DE SANTO DOMINGO, SALÓN REY
Belén Gopegui in conversation with Margarita Valencia
Belén Gopegui, Spanish novelist and scriptwriter, was an award-winner for her debut novel, La escala de los mapas, in 1993. Gopegui’s third novel, La conquista del aire, was adapted for the screen by Gerardo Herrero. She is also the author of El lado frío de la almohada and El padre de Blancanieves and has been described as the best novelist of her generation by Francisco Umbral. She will speak to Margarita Valencia.
- [23] Friday at 17:30–18:30, TEATRO HEREDIA
Michael Ignatieff
Michael Ignatieff is a Canadian public intellectual, historian and politician. Awarded a PhD in History by Harvard University and a former fellow of King's College, Cambrige, St Antony's College in Oxford and the École des Hautes Études in París, his books include The Warrior's Honourand Isaiah Berlin: A life. He has worked as a television broadcaster, published articles in The New Yorker and The New York Review of Books and is the former director of the Harvard's Carr Center of Human Rights. He is currently the deputy leader of the Liberal Party of Canada.
Simultaneous translation from English will be provided.
- [24] Friday at 17:30–18:30, CLAUSTRO DE SANTO DOMINGO, PATIO (COURTYARD)
Bogotá39: About the characters in my
Los autores John Jairo Junieles, Antonio Ungar, Claudia Amengual, Álvaro Enrigue, Iván Thays, Juan Gabriel Vásquez y João Paulo Cuenca,Authors John Jairo Junieles, Antonio Ungar, Claudia Amengual, Álvaro Enrique, Iván Thays, Juan Gabriel Vásquez and João Paulo Cuenca were chosen alongside 32 others as the most promising writers in current Latin American literature through the Bogotá39 initiative, a Hay Festival and Secretaría Distrital de Cultura, Recreación y Deporte (District Department for Culture, Recreation and Sport) of Bogotá project in the framework of the ‘Bogotá Capital Mundial del Libro 2007’ (2007: Bogotá World Book Capital), will talk about the origins of the characters that populate their works. Chaired by Clara Elvira Ospina.
- [25] Friday at 17:30–18:30, UNIVERSIDAD DE CARTAGENA, CLAUSTRO DE LA MERCED
The publishing world in the Latin American cultural sphere
Jorge Herralde, Pere Sureda, Conrado Zuluaga and Margarita Valencia with Mercedes Alcover
Jorge Herralde, Pere Sureda, Conrado Zuluaga and Margarita Valencia will talk to Alfons Martinell about the Latin American cultural sphere, the role of the publishing industry and the importance of migratory ties and relations between Spain and Latin America. The problem of pigeonholing in Latin American literature will be discussed.
- [26] Friday at 19:00, TEATRO HEREDIA
Screening: Paraíso Travel
The two scriptwriters of Paraíso Travel, Jorge Franco and José Manuel Rendón, will introduce the film. After the screening there will be a 20-minute question and answer session with the writers.
Paraíso Travel is, above all, a love story whose main feature is the obstinacy of its main characters: of Marlon in pursuing Reina’s love, of Milagros in trying to win Marlon’s love and of Reina in not letting herself be found following an absurd situation that has separated her from the young man.
Jorge Franco, author and co-scriptwriter of Paraíso Travel, is considered one of the leaders of the new wave of Latin American literature. Juan Rendón is the co-scriptwriter of the first draft of Paraíso Travel. Before devoting all his time to making films, Rendón was editor and head of the award winning LOFT magazine, a publication that focuses on the lifestyle of Latin Americans and Hispanics in the United States.
- [27] 19:30–20:30, CASA MAPFRE
Bernardo Carvalho with João Paulo Cuenca
Brazilian writer Bernardo Carvalho has been correspondant for the newspaper Afola de Sað Paulo both in Paris and New York; he is the author of several novels, amongst them Mongolia, winner of Premio Jabuti, the most prestigious literary prize in Brazil. In conversation with João Paulo Cuenca.
- [28] Friday at 19:30–20:30, CLAUSTRO DE SANTO DOMINGO, SALÓN REY
Kiran Desai in conversation with Jon Gower
Desai, an Indian writer living in New York, was awarded the 2006 Man Booker Prize for The Inheritance of Loss. As Salman Rushdie has said, Kiran Desai is ‘welcome proof that India’s encounter with the English language continues to give birth to new children, endowed with lavish gifts’. She will talk to Jon Gower.
Simultaneous translation into Spanish will be provided
- [29] Saturday at 09:00–11:00, departure from the BOX OFFICE OF THE TEATRO HEREDIA
Ruta garciamarqueana (García Márquez route)
Hay Festival and the Universidad Tecnológica (University of Technology) will take you on a journey of discovery around the most significant spots from García Márquez’s imagination in Cartagena. Guides: Jaime García Márquez/Gustavo Tatis.
- [30] Saturday at 10:30–11:30, CLAUSTRO DE SANTO DOMINGO, SALÓN REY (KING’S HALL)
Oral writings of the city
Jesús Martín Barbero and Felipe Aljure in conversation with Omar Rincón
The advances in new technologies have not only challenged the traditional forms of journalism but have also made the important relationship between reading/writing and civic participation visible.
This conversation will examine the experiences that are giving a voice to those who have traditionally been excluded from written culture, as well as provide a framework for the contributions that Latin America’s strong oral tradition is currently making in terms of the construction of urban, generational, local and gender narratives.
- [31] Saturday at 10:30–11:30, TEATRO HEREDIA
The writer as an image
Iván Thays, Daniel Mordzinski and Pere Sureda with Daniel Samper Ospina
Iván Thays, author of La disciplina de la vanidad, presenter of Vano Oficio on Peruvian television and one of the chosen authors for Bogotá39, Daniel Mordzinski, an Argentinian photographer who has taken pictures of the most famous Latin American writers and co-author of the Bogotá39 catalogue and Pere Sureda, editorial director of Belacqva, will talk to Daniel Samper Ospina about the figure of the writer within the cultural sphere and society in general and his/her supposed vanity and media presence.
- [32] Saturday at 10:30–11:30, CASA MAPFRE
Jorge Edwards in conversation with Óscar Collazos
The literary career of Jorge Edwards ran parallel to his diplomatic experience in Cuba and Paris. From the former emerged a controversial book, Persona Non Grata: A Memoir of Disenchantment with the Cuban Revolution (1971) and from the latter, his closeness to Pablo Neruda during the difficult times of the Popular Unity Government of Chile. But Edwards is also a great novelist and has been recognised with the award of the ‘Premio Cervantes’ prize. Amongst his most recent works, El inútil de la familia and a biography of Machado de Assis stand out. He will talk to Óscar Collazos.
- [33] Saturday at 12:30–13:30, TEATRO HEREDIA
Discussing the present
Héctor Abad Faciolince, Juan Cruz, Andrés Hoyos and Antonio Caballero
Writer, editor and journalist Héctor Abad Faciolince, author of El olvido que seremos, Juan Cruz, a journalist for El País and author of Ojalá octubre, Andrés Hoyos, director of the magazine El Malpensante, and Antonio Caballero, journalist, writer, bullfighting critic and a regular contributor to Semana and El País, will reflect on the trade of turning what happens in the world into words and opinions through literary criticism, chronicles or fiction.
- [34] Saturday at 12:30–13:30, CLAUSTRO DE SANTO DOMINGO, SALÓN REY
Huda Barakat in conversation with Pere Sureda
Lebanese author Huda Barakat received the most prestigious award for literature written in Arabic, the Naguib Mahfuz Medal for Literature with The Tiller of Waters in 2000. Huda Barakat is a fabulous ‘tiller’ of the human soul, with a rebellious gaze defying classification as well as a captivating literary style. Barakat will talk to her Spanish publisher, Pere Sureda.
Simultaneous translation into Spanish will be provided.
Organised in collaboration with Casa Árabe.
- [35] Saturday at 12:30–13:30, CASA MAPFRE
Anne Enright in conversation with Marianne Ponsford
Irish writer Anne Enright, winner of the prestigious Man Booker Prize 2007 for The Gathering, will speak to Marianne Ponsford, Director of Arcadia magazine.
- [36] Saturday at 14:30–17:00, CASA MAPFRE
Workshop with Andrew Ruhemann
The famous animation producer and creator of the image of the Gorillaz characters, a virtual band formed by the singers of groups Blur (Damon Albarn) and The Good, The Bad And The Queen, and producer of the animation for the film Who framed Roger Rabbit? will run a workshop aimed at children.
- [37] Saturday at 15:00–16:00, TEATRO HEREDIA
Versatile Sabina
Juan Gabriel Vásquez, autor de Los informantes e Historia secreta de Costaguana conversará con Julio Villanueva Chang, founding editor of the magazine Etiqueta Negra, will talk to Joaquín Sabina about his lesser known facets: Sabina the reader, the collector, the militant, the bullfighting enthusiast, the writer of aphorisms… .
- [38] Saturday at 15:30–16:30, CLAUSTRO DE SANTO DOMINGO, SALÓN REY (KING’S HALL)
British Council Conference: The Future of Language, by David Crystal
The end of the 20th century has brought about big changes in language and languages. While English has become the lingua franca of the globalised world, numerous minority languages run the risk of disappearing; the arrival of the Internet plays an ambiguous role within this situation. Things will never be the same again for language professionals.
Simultaneous translation into Spanish will be provided
- [39] Saturday at 17:30–18:30, TEATRO HEREDIA
Alice Walker in conversation with Diana Quick
The author of the acclaimed novel The Color Purple, for which she won the Pulitzer Prize and which tells the story of an Afro-American woman in the US South, as well as a poet and noteworthy militant in the fight for civil rights, will be in conversation with actress Diana Quick.
Simultaneous translation into Spanish will be provided
- [40] Saturday at 17:30–18:30, CLAUSTRO DE SANTO DOMINGO, PATIO (COURTYARD)
The family as literature
Juan Cruz, Jorge Edwards and Enrique de Hériz
These three writers have turned the institution of the family into the central theme of some of their works. Juan Cruz talks about the figure of his father in Ojalá octubre, Jorge Edwards writes of his uncle Joaquín in El inútil de la familia and Enrique de Hériz relates the ups and downs of a family from Barcelona from the moment the mother is given up for dead in Mentira (Lies: A Novel). Chaired by Guido Tamayo.
- [41] Saturday at 19:30–20:30, CASA MAPFRE
What is the true face of populism?
Francisco Panizza in conversation with Alejandro Santos
Latin America is experiencing a resurgence in populism; for some this poses a threat to democracy, while others consider it to be the purest expression of the will of the people and thus essentially democratic. Francisco Panizza, Senior Lecturer at the London School of Economics, will talk about the complex relationship between populism and democracy with Alejandro Santos, editor of Semana magazine.
- [42] Saturday at 19:30–20:30, TEATRO HEREDIA
Poetry gala
A distinguished panel of the best international poets will recite their work. With Darío Jaramillo Agudelo, Piedad Bonnett, Homero Aridjis, William Ospina, Yasir Abdel Latif and Alice Walker.
- [43] Saturday at 19:30–20:30, CLAUSTRO DE SANTO DOMINGO, PATIO (COURTYARD)
Aminatta Forna in conversation with Rosie Boycott
Aminatta Forna in conversation with Rosie Boycott Aminatta Forna is a Scottish & African writer as well as an influential journalist and radio and television broadcaster. She contributes to several newspapers including The Independent, The Observer, The Sunday Times and The Evening Standard. Her first book, The Devil that Danced on the Water, a memoir of her childhood, received great praise from critics, both in the US and the UK.The Ancestor Stones was her first novel, and she has also written Ancestor Stones, which has won the Hurston Wright Debut Fiction Award en los Estado Unidos. Forna will talk to Rosie Boycott, patron of the Hay Festival.
Simultaneous translation into Spanish will be provided
- [44] Saturday at 21:30–22:30, TEATRO HEREDIA
Animation as art: Andrew Ruhemann
Ruhemann is a famous animation producer (Who Framed Roger Rabbit?) and creator of the Gorillaz characters over a thousand music videos and commercials , as well as two short films nominated to the Bafta Awards; he will speak about his work and show us clips of his creations.
Simultaneous translation into Spanish will be provided
- [45] Sunday at 09:00–11:00, departure from the BOX OFFICE OF THE TEATRO HEREDIA
Ruta garciamarqueana (García Márquez route)
Hay Festival and the Universidad Tecnológica (University of Technology) will take you on a journey of discovery around the most significant spots from García Márquez’s imagination in Cartagena. Guides: Jaime García Márquez/Gustavo Tatis.
A route guide and refreshments served during the tour will be provided .
- [46] Sunday at 10:30–11:30, CASA MAPFRE
Martín Kohan in conversation with Gastón García
Argentinian writer Martín Kohan, the latest winner of the Premio Herralde de Novela (Herralde Novel Award) for Ciencias Morales will talk to the journalist Gastón García about his work, his most recent book, the twists and turns of history in his stories and, almost certainly, about his great passion: Boca Juniors.
- [47] Sunday at 10:30–11:30, TEATRO HEREDIA
The Civil War: Skeletons and Files. The ‘Two Spains’ and their Phantoms
Antony Beevor is the author of the award-winning works Stalingrad and Berlin: The Downfall, 1945, translated into 29 languages. His most recent book, The Spanish Civil War, has been a bestseller in Spain with almost half a million copies sold, received the La Vanguardia Prize and been translated into 17 languages. The Spanish Civil War continues to cause more controversy than the Second World War; in this talk Antony Beevor will examine the myths of the conflict and will discuss their implications today.
- [48] Sunday at 12:30–13:30, TEATRO HEREDIA
Montano’s malady
Ana María Moix, Piedad Bonnett, José Ovejero and Enrique de Hériz with Juan Gossaín
Montano’s malady, or the addiction to literature; several guest writers at the Festival will discuss and share their views on this particular addiction, its characteristics and rituals, with us.
- [49] Sunday at 12:30–13:30, CLAUSTRO DE SANTO DOMINGO, SALÓN REY (KING’S HALL)
Juan Gabriel Vásquez and Monica Ali
Juan Gabriel Vásquez, author of Los informantes and Historia secreta de Costaguana will talk to Monica Ali, a British writer whose truly revelatory first novel, Brick Lane, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 2003. In 2006 Ali published Alentejo Blue.
Simultaneous translation into Spanish will be provided
- [50] Sunday at 12:30–13:30, CASA MAPFRE
How to make stories or poetry
Workshop with Aída Marcuse
La escritora y traductora uruguaya ha escrito numerosos libros dirigidos al público infantil.
For children 8 to 10 years old
- [52] Sunday at 15:30–16:30, CLAUSTRO DE SANTO DOMINGO, SALÓN REY (KING’S HALL)
The writer Peter Ho Davies, Cristina García and Monica Ali in conversation with Jon Gower
Peter Ho Davies, named by Granta magazine as one of its ‘Best of Young British Novelists’ and author of The Welsh Girl, Cristina García, a writer living in the United States and author of Dreaming in Cuban (translated into Spanish as Soñar en cubano) and Monica Ali, author of Brick Lane, shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 2003, will speak to Jon Gower.
Simultaneous translation into Spanish will be provided.
- [53] Sunday at 15:30–16:30, CASA MAPFRE
From Sepharad to Latin American literature
Marcos Aguinis and Azriel Bibliowicz
Marcos Aguinis, writer, winner of the Premio Planeta prize and awarded the Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in France, and Colombian writer Azriel Bibliowicz will speak about the influence of Judaism, Sephardic culture and language on contemporary Latin American literature and on their respective works in particular.
- [54] Sunday at 17:30–18:30, TEATRO HEREDIA
A tribute to Fontanarrosa: Humour as art
Joan Manuel Serrat, Darío Jaramillo and Daniel Samper.
Roberto 'El Negro' Fontanarrosa was one of the stars at the first Hay Festival in Cartagena, where he gave a talk on humour and literature. His colleagues recognised this with the First Hay Festival Cartagena Prize. ‘El Negro’ passed away in July this year in Rosario, Argentina, his native land. The Hay Festival will pay a tribute to him in which readers and friends will take part and talk about humour as art.
- [55] Sunday at 17:30–18:30, CLAUSTRO DE SANTO DOMINGO, PATIO (COURTYARD)
Bogotá39: About the characters in my novels
Authors Ricardo Silva, Antonio García, Wendy Guerra, Pedro Mairal, Pilar Quintana, Jorge Volpi and Iván Thays, were chosen alongside 32 other writers as the most promising in current Latin American literature through the Bogotá39 initiative, a Hay Festival and Secretaría Distrital de Cultura, Recreación y Deporte (District Department for Culture, Recreation and Sport) of Bogotá project in the framework of the Bogotá Capital Mundial del Libro 2007 (2007: Bogotá World Book Capital), will talk about the origins of the characters that populate their works. Chaired by Gastón García, journalist and co-author of the Bogotá39 catalogue.
- [56] Sunday at 19:30–20:30, CASA MAPFRE
Homero Aridjis and Juan Cruz
The Mexican author,Homero Ardijis, has published 39 books of prose and poetry and been translated into over twelve languages. He is the most famous environmental activist in Mexico and will be talking about this, as well as his six years as International President of International PEN, the death threats he has received over the years and his experience as Mexican ambassador in Switzerland, the Netherlands and currently, to UNESCO.Homero will talk to Juan Cruz, author and journalist for El País.
- [57] Sunday at 19:30–20:30, TEATRO HEREDIA
Recommended read gala, followed by a performance by Totó La Momposina
Marcos Aguinis, Monica Ali, Claudia Amengual, Nélida Piñón, Aminatta Forna and Martín Kohan with Clara Elvira Ospina
The writers above will share with the audience their thoughts about the books they have enjoyed the most as readers. Followed by the award of the 2008 Hay Festival Prize to the festival author elected by his or her fellow writers. And to close the Hay Festival in Cartagena, the show Totó La Momposina will take place in the Teatro Heredia.
Supervised and produced by the Fundación BAT (British American Tobacco Foundation).
Simultaneous translation into Spanish will be provided.
Tickets on sale from the second week of December until 20 January through the Festival website www.hayfestival.com, by telephone or at Libreria Nacional branches across the country.
Collect and purchase tickets directly from the Box Office of the Teatro Heredia in Cartagena de Indias from 21 January. Please collect the tickets up to half an hour before the beginning of the event in question. Remember to bring identification when you come to pick up the tickets.
Free entry for students with student card: cupo limitado (20% de cada evento).
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