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(1) 13:30 - 14:30, San Juan de Los Caballeros, €7
Almudena Grandes in conversation with Iñaki Gabilondo
To open the second Hay Festival in Segovia, the writer Almudena Grandes, author Las edades de Lulú, Malena es un nombre de tango and Aires difíciles, talks to the journalist Iñaki Gabilondo about her latest book, Corazón helado (2007).
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(2) 13.30 - 14.30, Palacio Mansilla, Auditorio, Universidad de Valladolid (Palacio Mansilla Auditorium, University of Valladolid), €7
Women War Correspondents. In memory of Anna Politkovskaya. Janine di Giovanni, Georgina Higueras, Hala Jaber and Olga Rodríguez in conversation with Mamem Mendizábal.
Janine di Giovanni, war correspondent for The Times and Vanity Fair has covered conflicts in the Balkans, Africa and the Middle East, written books and won numerous international prizes. Writer and war correspondent Georgina Higueras has covered the conflicts in Chechnya, Afghanistan and the Persian Gulf, and is author of La venganza del Dragón and El despertar de Asia. Hala Jaber, Lebanese journalist and Sunday Times contributor, won the prize for best reporter in 2005 for her coverage of the war in Iraq. Olga Rodríguez was special envoy to Iraq for television channel SER and is author of Aquí Bagdad, crónica de guerra. They will talk to journalist Mamen Mendizábal.
This event coincides with the posthumous publication of A Russian Diary, by journalist Anna Politkovskaya, murdered last year.
Organised with the support of the publishing house DEBATE
Simultaneous translation into Spanish available
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(3) 17:00 - 18:00, Caja de Segovia (Bank of Segovia), €7
Michel Maffesoli – new challenges for cultural co-operation in the 21st century
Michel Maffesoli is Professor of Humanities at the Sorbonne and editor of Sociétés, the international magazine for social and human sciences. He runs CEAQ (Centre d'Etudes sur l'Actuel et le Quotidien, Sorbonne University) and the Centre of Investigation into the Imaginary (Maison des Sciences de l'Homme). He has been visiting professor at a host of international universities, including, Harvard and Cambridge.Michel will share his thoughts on how contemporary creation alters old models of cultural exchange.
Sponsored by:The French Embassy in Spain
Simultaneous translation into Spanish available
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(4) 18:30 - 19:30, Palacio Mansilla, Auditorio, Universidad de Valladolid (Palacio Mansilla Auditorium, University of Valladolid), €7
Freedom of Expression – in memory of Anna Politkovskaya -
Jo Glanville, Raul Rivero and Maziar Bahari
To mark the posthumous publication of Anna Politkovskaya’s book, Cuban poet and journalist, Raúl Rivero, who was imprisoned in Cuba for his writing,Jo Glanville, editor of Index of Censorship, a British magazine founded in 1972 to defend freedom of expression, and Maziar Bahari, Newsweek correspondent in Iran and documentary director with extensive experience of modern Iran, speak about freedom of expression.
Organised with the support of the publishing house DEBATE
Simultaneous translation into Spanish available
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(5) 18:30 - 19:30, Caja de Segovia (Bank of Segovia), €7
Lesley Ellis Miller talks about Cristóbal Balenciaga
Lesley Ellis Miller, head curator of the Department of Furniture, Textiles and Fashion at the Victoria & Albert Musuem and editor of the magazine Textile Industry, talks about the work and personal history of the legendary designer Cristóbal Balenciaga (1895-1972), a central figure of 20th century fashion. Until recently, there have been few studies looking at the context and Spanish influences which gave rise to his Parisian creations. Lesley Ellis discusses the designer’s life and work.
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(6) 20:00 - 21:00, Caja de Segovia (Bank of Segovia), €3
Short film: Along Came a Spider (2002), with an introduction by the director Maziar Bahari
Between July 2000 and July 2001, sixteen women were killed in the sacred city of Mashhad in Iran; all except one had previously been imprisoned for prostitution and drugs charges. When the perpetrator, Saed Hanaei, 39, was arrested and confessed to the crimes, he proudly stated his actions were in accordance with sacred teachings against vice and for the promotion of virtue.
The film shows a sordid interview with Hanaei in prison. Written, produced, directed and edited by Maziar Baari, this documentary was well-received in short film festivals throughout the world.
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22:30 Plaza de san martín - acueducto, paseo del salón (San Martin Square – aqueduct, paseo del salón ), Free
Fireworks to celebrate the Hay Festival Segovia
A firework display from the Altos de la Piedad, to celebrate the start of Hay Festival Segovia, in partnership with our sponsors, friends and the Ayuntamiento of Segovia.
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(52) 11.00, Hotel Las Sirenas, €7
Visit to MER Foundation Collection
This is the last year that the MER Foundation’s prizewinning collection can be seen in this private setting. It is the winner of the ARCO Art Fair Private Collection Prize. The exhibition shows works by contemporary foreign and Spanish artists and photographers, reflecting the taste of the collectors, Marcos Martín Blanco and Elena Rueda. Works by Pijuan, C.León, G. Sevilla, Gordillo, Barceló, Fetting, Fischl, Balkenhol, C. Brown, W. Cotton, Yuscavage, Sherman and Barclay and others. (Price includes the tour and event 42 in the Alhondiga on Sunday 30)
Sponsored by: MER Foundation
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(53) 11.00, Museum Esteban Vicente (Esteban Vicente Museum), €3
Visit to the Esteban Vicente Museum
Visit the temporary exhibition: Aún aprendo. Últimas obras de Tiziano a Tàpies, (I am still learning: the final works of Tiziano to Tapies) reuniting an impressive array of work, who’s only link is that they were painted in the last stages of the artists lives. Their beauty is not only the result of undeniable technical mastery, but by a spirituality produced by long life experience. The featured artists are taken mainly from Twentieth Century Spanish Art, but significant Spanish and foreign artists from other periods are also on display.
Sponsored by: Museo Esteban Vicente, Diputación Provincial de Segovia
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(7) 12:00 - 13:00, San Juan de los Caballeros, €7
Edwin Williamson: how do you write a biography of Borges?
Edwin Williamson is Professor of Spanish Studies at Oxford University and a Fellow of Exeter College. An internationally renowned expert on Cervantes’ work, and author of The Penguin History of Latin America (1993), Williamson talks about his latest book, a biography of Jorge Luis Borges. Using unpublished sources, this definitive biography challenges established opinion of this great writer.
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(8) 12:00 - 13:00, Caja de Segovia (Bank of Segovia) , €7
Janine di Giovanni in conversation with Peter Florence
Janine di Giovanni began working as a correspondent during the first Palestinian Intifada in the late 1980s and has reported nearly every violent conflict since then, for The Times, Vanity Fair and other publications. She has won numerous prizes, including two awarded by Amnesty International, the Foreign Correspondent of the Year in the U.K. and the prestigious National Magazine Prize in the U.S.A. Specialising in the Balkans, Africa and the Middle East, she has written four books, including Madness Visible, which reviewers say is one of the best books written on the Balkan War. She speaks to Peter Florence, director of the Hay Festival.
Simultaneous translation into Spanish available
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(9) 13:30 - 14:30, Caja de Segovia (Bank of Segovia), €7
The editors face the readers
Manuel Borrás, Ofelia Grande and Jorge Herralde in conversation with Juan Mollá
Editors act as intermediaries between the author, their creations and the reader. The editors Jorge Herralde (Anagrama), Manuel Borrás (Pretextos) and Ofelia Grande (Siruela) share their experiences with Juan Mollá, writer and president of CEDRO.
CEDRO is the body that defends author’s rights for writers, translators and journalists. Part of its function is dedicated to improving the conditions of work for authors and promoting respect towards their work. Today it represents over 12,000 authors, as well as writers and editors of 28 similar bodies in other countries.
Sponsored by:CEDRO
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(63) 14.00, Hotel Las Sirenas €7
Visit to MER Foundation Collection
This is the last year that the MER Foundation’s prizewinning collection can be seen in this private setting. It is the winner of the ARCO Art Fair Private Collection Prize. The exhibition shows works by contemporary foreign and Spanish artists and photographers, reflecting the taste of the collectors, Marcos Martín Blanco and Elena Rueda. Works by Pijuan, C.León, G. Sevilla, Gordillo, Barceló, Fetting, Fischl, Balkenhol, C. Brown, W. Cotton, Yuscavage, Sherman and Barclay and others.
(Price includes the tour and event 42 in the Alhondiga on Sunday 30)
Sponsored by: MER Foundation
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(10) 13:30 - 14:30h, San Juan de los Caballeros, €7
Paul Preston: foreign correspondents in the Spanish Civil War
The Spanish Civil War served to define the figure of the war correspondent. For nearly three years the eyes of the world were fixed on Spain, and the cream of the international press and literature gathered to bear witness to what was happening and write what was often to be, the first draft of the story. Ernest Hemingway, Martha Gellhorn, John Dos Passos, W.H. Auden, Cyril Connolly, George Orwell,and many others travelled through Spain and wrote about what they witnessed. Paul Preston, Professor at the London School of Economics (LSE), presents a portrait of a legendary collective, the precarious conditions and serious risks they took for their work.
Organised with the London School of Economics and Political Science
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(11) 17:00 - 18:00, San Juan de los Caballeros, €7
The Muslim Woman, Sufism and Literature
Elif Shafak in conversation with Maureen Freely
Elif Shafak has written novels in Turkish, English and French. Her latest novel is The Bastard of Istanbul. She discusses Sufism, women in the Muslim world and the clash of cultures with Maureen Freely, journalist and author of Enlightenment, a book on contemporary Turkish society.
Simultaneous translation into Spanish available
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(12) 17:00 – 18:00, Caja de Segovia (Bank of Segovia), €7
Robert Menasse in conversation with Juan Gabriel Vásquez
Austrian author of The Expulsion from Hell, Robert Menasse is hailed as a new and intelligent voice in Central European literature. His critical essays (A Country Without Qualities; Explain Austria To Me) have sparked many a polemic. He talks to Juan Gabriel Vásquez, author of Los Informantes.
Simultaneous translation into Spanish available
Sponsored by:The Austrian Embassy and Austrian Forum
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(13) 17:00 – 18:00, The Alhóndiga, €7
The Faces and Characters of Literature. Portraits of Spanish Writers (1898-1927)
José García Velasco, Juan Pérez de Ayala and Pablo Jiménez Burillo
A talk about the Silver Age of contemporary Spanish culture. José García Velasco, Executive President of the Sociedad Estatal de Conmemoraciones Culturales, Juan Pérez de Ayala, the exhibition’s curator, and Pablo Jiménez Burillo, Director General of the MAPFRE Foundation discuss the life and relationships of the main protagonists from the exhibition Three Generations of Spanish Writers: Portraits, shown in the Alhóndiga.
Organised with Fundación MAPFRE (MAPFRE Foundation)
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(14) 18:30 – 19:30, Caja de Segovia (Bank of Segovia), €7
Literary Creation and the Politically Incorrect
Samih al-Qasim talks to Ignacio Gutiérrez de Terán
Samih al-Qasim is one of the best-known Arab poets, and has over twenty published books. He has been imprisoned on many occasions for his political activity in aid of the Palestine cause. He has written for Arabic language newspapers, including Kull al-Arab, of which he is currently editor in chief, and also heads the publishing house Arabisk. Many of his poems have appeared in Spanish anthologies of Palestinian and Arabic poetry.
Simultaneous translation into Spanish available
Sponsored by:Casa Árabe
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(15) 18:30 – 19:30, San Juan de los Caballeros, €7
Andrés Trapiello in conversation with Malcolm Otero Barral
Andrés Trapiello is one of the most prolific writers of contemporary Spanish literature. He has published poetry (Las tradiciones), novels (Los amigos del crimen perfecto), essays (La Vida de Miguel de Cervantes),as well fourteen volumes of diaries (the latest being La cosa en sí), and has edited work by Unamuno and others. He discusses with editor Malcolm Otero Barral his perception of life and literature.
Sponsored by: The autonomous government of Castille and Leon.
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(16) 18:30 - 19:30, Museo Esteban Vicente (Esteban Vicente Museum), €7
Bogotá39: Slavko Zupcic, Andrés Neuman and Eduardo Halfon in conversation with Piedad Bonnet
Hay Festival and the Ayuntamiento of Bogotá organised the project Bogotá39, 39 writers under 39, to celebrate Bogotá being named World Book Capital 2007. 39 of the most notable Latin American writers under the age of 39, were chosen by a panel of Colombian writers (Óscar Collazos, Héctor Abad Faciolince and Piedad Bonnet).
Three of the 39, Slavko Zupcic (Venezuela,) Andrés Neuman (Argentina) and Eduardo Halfon (Guatemala), talk to panel member Piedad Bonnetr.
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(17) 20:00 - 21:00, Caja de Segovia (Bank of Segovia), €7
A Parrot in the Pepper Tree
Chris Stewart talks to Manuel Pimentel
Chris Stewart, (Driving Over Lemons) the Spanish literary sensation of the year, will present his second book in Spanish, El loro en el limonero (A Parrot in the Pepper Tree: A Sort of Sequel to "Driving Over Lemons"), published by Almuzara. A brilliant follow-up, as tender and funny as the stories in his first book. Chris talks toManuel Pimentel, writer, businessman, ex-minister and head of the publishing group Almuzara.
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(18) 20:00 - 21:00, San Juan de los Caballeros, €7
A. C. Grayling: The Concept of Liberty
The philospher A. C. Grayling, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Birbeck and Numerary Professor of Saint Anne’s College, Oxford, is author of Towards the Light: The Story of the Struggles for Liberty and Rights that Made the Modern West. He discusses the concept of liberty. Liberty is one of the great achievements of Western history, as much in the philosophical arena as in day to day life. Paradoxically, according to Grayling, the priority given to security in Western societies today is threatening our civil liberties.
Simultaneous translation into Spanish available
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(19) 21:30 – 22:30, San Juan de Los Caballeros, €7
Ian Rankin in conversation with Peter Florence
Peter Florence talks to the novelist Ian Rankin to mark the 20th anniversary of his most famous character, John Rebus, tireless drinker and ex-member of the Edinburgh police force. As his book sales approach 20 million copies, enjoy the company of one of the most celebrated and original Scottish novelists of all time.
Simultaneous translation into Spanish available
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(20) 21:30, Caja de Segovia (Bank of Segovia), €3
Short Shots ‘Short’ Reflections of Women
Afterwards there will be a discussion with Juan Luis Carabias Hernández (Short Shots) and Ralph Etter (director) with Christian Haubner (Instituto Goethe).
Life’s too short for long films. This is the theme of SHORT SHOTS, the idea of a group of students from Berlin who have opened an office in Madrid. We present a selection of shorts from the latest productions by film academies in Germany and by Young Cineastes, united by the theme “Frau im Spiegel” (Reflections of Women), in collaboration with the German National Agency for the European Union’s Youth Programme.
Stereotypes
Director: Tim Fehlbaum, 2002, 4 min.
The day of a successful businessman – or at least it seems that way – goes by in its usual rush.
Breaking Point
Director: Timo Becker, 2006, 18 min.
Based on text from the play “Girlsnightout” by Gesine Danckwart, the film tells a life story.
Loose Connection
Director: Ralph Etter, 2004, 19 min.
An orphaned brother and sister live with their grandmother on a farm. Sybille, ten years old, must learn how to deal with her grandmother’s senility and, in spite of everything, try to lead a normal life.
Original version with Spanish subtitles
Sponsored by: The Goethe Institute in Madrid
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(55) 11.00, Entrance of the Mariano Quintanilla Institute (plaza Díaz Sa), €3
Guided tour of the Machado Route of Segovia
Castilla y León commemorates the arrival of Antonio Machado to this region with the Machado route of Segovia, permitting the visitor to retrace the steps of this illustrious author, and visit parts of the city preserved in his writing. The trip incorporates part of the Institute of Mariano Quintanilla, where he taught, and ends at the doors of his house and now the museum in Desamparados Street. The Tour will visit “Machadoesque” landmarks such as the Aqueduct, The Canaleja lookout point, the Main Square, the church of San Quirze, the Alcazar and more.
Sponsored by: Caja de Segovia
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(64) 11.00, Hotel Las Sirenas €7
Visit to MER Foundation Collection
This is the last year that the MER Foundation’s prizewinning collection can be seen in this private setting. It is the winner of the ARCO Art Fair Private Collection Prize. The exhibition shows works by contemporary foreign and Spanish artists and photographers, reflecting the taste of the collectors, Marcos Martín Blanco and Elena Rueda. Works by Pijuan, C.León, G. Sevilla, Gordillo, Barceló, Fetting, Fischl, Balkenhol, C. Brown, W. Cotton, Yuscavage, Sherman and Barclay and others.
(Price includes the tour and event 42 in the Alhondiga on Sunday 30)
Sponsored by: MER Foundation
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(34) 12:00, Antiguo Palacio Episcopal, €7
Alan Rusbridger and Javier Moreno in conversation with Rosie Boycott
Alan Rusbridger and Javier Moreno, editors of The Guardian and El Pais, discuss the complexities of running a newspaper: the challenges that new media present, breaking news items, and the future of journalism. They talk to Rosie Boycott, writer and ex editor of The Independent.
Simultaneous translation into Spanish available
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(21) 12:00- 13:00, Caja de Segovia (Bank of Segovia), €7
Enrique de Hériz, Antonio Orejudo and Alan Pauls in conversation with Félix Romeo
Enrique de Hériz (El día menos pensado, Historia del desorden, Mentira), Antonio Orejudo (Ventajas de viajar en tren, Reconstrucción) and Alan Pauls (El pasado, La vida descalzo) talk about their work with literary critic Felix Romeo, and reflect on the process of writing.
(22) 12:00 - 13:00, San Juan de Los Caballeros, €7
Wole Soyinka in conversation with Landry-Wilfred Mampika
Wole Soyinka is a playwright, poet, novelist, critic, professor, actor, translator, politician and editor. Born in Nigeria, his work blends African and European cultural traditions; he is inspired by myths and tribal traditions, combining them with Western forms. Deeply engaged with social justice, in 1986 he became the first African as well as the first black writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. He talks to Landry-Wilfred Mampika, literary critic and expert on African art and literature.
Simultaneous translation into Spanish available
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(23) 12:00 – 13:00, Museo Esteban Vicente (Esteban Vicente Museum), €7
Real Gardens, Virtual Gardens
José Antonio Gómez Municio, Luis Besa and Ángel Gabilondo
The garden created by Leandro Silva is one of the most evocative enclaves of Segovia. The Sociedad de Conmemoraciones Culturales has set up a sculpture exhibition by Francisco Leiro in San Marcos del Romeral, a labyrinthine garden that alludes to other virtual gardens. José Antonio Gómez Municio, journalist and garden specialist, philosopher Luis Besa, and Ángel Gabilondo, the philosopher and rector of the Autonomous University of Madrid discuss.
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(24) 13:30 - 14:30, Caja de Segovia (Bank of Segovia), €7
London School of Economics and Hay Festival series: Reading the Future
Interventionism, Development and Poverty: The Global Government at the Crossroads.
Carlos Berzosa, Fred Halliday and Andrés Ortega
In the last few years, the role of institutions such as the United Nations, the World Bank, the International Chamber of Commerce and the International Monetary Fund has been dramatically put to the test. Which policies should these institutions support? Can they really offer effective solutions to global problems? Fred Halliday, professor of International Relations at the London School of Economics, and the rector of the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Carlos Berzosa Alonso-Martínez, discuss these topics with Andrés Ortega, International Editor of the newspaper El País.
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(25) 13:30 – 14:30, San Juan de los Caballeros, €7
Bogotá39: Santiago Rocangliolo, Guadalupe Nettel and Juan Gabriel Vásquez in conversation with Mercedes Monmany
Hay Festival and the Ayuntamiento of Bogotá organised the project Bogotá39, 39 writers under 39, to celebrate Bogotá being named World Book Capital 2007. Three of these authors, Santiago Rocangliolo (Peru), Guadalupe Nettel (Mexico) and Juan Gabriel Vasquez (Colombia), talk about their writing with literary critic Mercedes Monmany.
Sponsored by:The Colombian Embassy in Spain
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(26) 13:30 - 14:30, Museo Esteban Vicente (Esteban Vicente Museum), €7
Arnold Wesker: Readings
The English playwright, internationally renowned for his work and talents as a communicator, presents a selection of his works in a solo show that promises to excite and captivate the audience; when Arnold Wesker reads from his works, the characters and plot gain a characteristic warmth and humour.
Event in English (without translation)
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(27) 13:30-14:30 h, The Alhóndiga, €7
Masks, multitudes and other extraordinary histories: the universe according to James Ensor Andrés Trapiello in conversation with Pablo Jiménez Burillo
The writer Andrés Trapiello and Pablo Jiménez Burillo (MAPFRE foundation), in connection with the exhibition at the Alhóndiga on Belgian artist James Ensor, discuss the visual world and eccentricity of this artist who’s work is fundamental in the understanding of modern art.
Organised with the Fundación MAPFRE (MAPFRE Foundation)
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(65) 14.00, Hotel Las Sirenas €7
Visit to MER Foundation Collection
This is the last year that the MER Foundation’s prizewinning collection can be seen in this private setting. It is the winner of the ARCO Art Fair Private Collection Prize. The exhibition shows works by contemporary foreign and Spanish artists and photographers, reflecting the taste of the collectors, Marcos Martín Blanco and Elena Rueda. Works by Pijuan, C.León, G. Sevilla, Gordillo, Barceló, Fetting, Fischl, Balkenhol, C. Brown, W. Cotton, Yuscavage, Sherman and Barclay and others.
(Price includes the tour and event 42 in the Alhondiga on Sunday 30)
Sponsored by: MER Foundation
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(28) 17:00 - 18:00, Caja de Segovia (Bank of Segovia), €7
Daniel Alarcón and Hisham Matar in conversation with Peter Florence
Peter Florence, Director of Hay Festival, talks to two of the most interesting international authors of today. Daniel Alarcón was named one of the best young American novelists by the prestigious British magazine Granta, and as one of the best young Latin American novelists of Bogotá39. Author of Guerra a la luz de las velas (PEN/Hemingway Prize finalist 2006), and Radio Ciudad Perdida. Hisham Matar, a writer of Lybian origin raised in New York, is author of Sólo en el mundo (finalist of the prestigious Man Booker Prize and the Guardian First Book Award), set during the first years of Gaddafi’s dictatorship in Libya, which has been translated into fourteen languages and published in 17 countries.
Simultaneous translation into Spanish available
Sponsored by: Penguin
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(29) 17:00 - 18:00, San Juan de los Caballeros, €7
Manuel Rivas in conversation with Marianne Ponsford
Considered the most outstanding voice in contemporary Galician literature, writer and journalist Manuel Rivas talks about his works El lápiz del carpintero, ¿Qué me quieres, amor? and latest novel, Los libros arden mal, with Marianne Ponsford, director of the cultural magazine Arcadia.
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(30) 17:00 - 18:00, Museo Esteban Vicente, (Esteban Vicente Museum), €7
Lolita Bosh, Agustín Fernández Mallo and Gabi Martínez in conversation with Emilio Manzano
Journalist and presenter of Channel 33, Emilio Manzano, talks with a selection of the most interesting young Spanish writers. Lolita Bosh has published Això que veus és un rostre, for which she won the Omnium Cultural Prize for Literary Experimentation in 2004. Gabi Martínez, author of Hora de Times Square and Ático, also writes travel books (Sudd), and is considered to be one of the most outstanding driving forces of the genre. His book Una España inesperada has made him a point of reference for Spanish literary journalism; and Agustín Fernández Mallo, author of Nocilla Dream, is considered one of the best novels of 2006 by critics from El Cultural, and the best by the literary magazine Quimera. The book is the first installment of his trilogy Proyecto Dream (Dream Project).
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(56) 17.00, Entrance of the Mariano Quintanilla Institute (plaza Díaz Sa), €3
Guided tour of the Machado Route of Segovia
Castilla y León commemorates the arrival of Antonio Machado to this region with the Machado route of Segovia, permitting the visitor to retrace the steps of this illustrious author, and visit parts of the city preserved in his writing. The trip incorporates part of the Institute of Mariano Quintanilla, where he taught, and ends at the doors of his house and now the museum in Desamparados Street. The Tour will visit “Machadoesque” landmarks such as the Aqueduct, The Canaleja lookout point, the Main Square, the church of San Quirze, the Alcazar and more.
Sponsored by: Caja de Segovia
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(31) 18:30 - 19:30, Caja de Segovia (Bank of Segovia), €7
Contemporary Art in Spain: Local vs. Global
Rafael Doctor Roncero, Agustín Pérez Rubio, Angèle Etoundi and Louisa Buck
The guests will reflect on the complex relationship between artistic production and curatorial practice, and on how to successfully satisfy the needs of the local community with proposals of international relevance. Louisa Buck, art critic, contributor to The Art Newspaper and the BBC, and author of Moving Targets, a successful book on contemporary British art published by the Tate gallery, talks to Rafael Doctor Roncero, director of MUSAC, Agustín Pérez Rubio, head curator of MUSAC, and the Cameroonian artist Angèle Etoundi, who has shown at numerous international exhibitions including the Venice Biennale and the Milan Art Fair.
Simultaneous translation into Spanish available
Sponsored by:The AECI and the autonomous government of Castille and Leon
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(32) 18:30 - 19:30, San Juan de los Caballeros, €7
Javier Cercas talks to Félix Romeo
Javier Cercas is the author of five novels that have established him as one of Europe’s most outstanding novelists. He has written El móvil, El inquilino, El vientre de la ballena, Soldados de Salamina and La velocidad de la luz. Translated into over 20 languages, his work has received numerous national and international prizes. Cercas discusses his work with the literary critic Félix Romeo.
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(33) 18:30 - 19:30, Museo Esteban Vicente (Esteban Vicente Museum), €7
Rosa María Calaf Solé in conversation with Teresa Sanz, Aurelio Martín and Miguel Ángel López
Rosa María Calaf Solé, veteran correspondent for Televisión Española (TVE), is an expert at telling the stories of people’s lives with precision, simplicity and passion. She has been witness to extraordinary events as a correspondent in the Asia-Pacific region, having worked in New York, Moscow, Buenos Aires, Rome and Vienna. Winner of the prestigious Cirilo Rodríguez Prize, organised annually by the Press Association of Segovia for correspondents and envoys from the Spanish media. Calaf is about to leave for Beijing to cover the 2008 Olympic Games. She talks about her daily work as a reporter with journalists Teresa Sanz, Aurelio Martín and Miguel Ángel López.
Sponsored by: The Press Association of Segovia
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(35) 20:00-21:00 h, San Juan de los Caballeros, €7
My favourite book gala
The writers Rodrigo Fresán, Alan Pauls, Tishani Doshi, Daniel Alarcón, Hisham Matar, Antonio Orejudo, Hanif Kureishi and Menna Elfyn, are invited by the Hay Festival to share with the audience thoughts on their favourite reads. Chaired by journalist Alfredo Matasanz.
Simultaneous translation available in Spanish
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(36) 20:00 - 21:00, Antiguo Palacio Episcopal, €7
(37) €50 (event and dinner)
Sam Clark and José María in conversation with Michael Jacobs
Sam Clark is owner and head chef at Moro, one of London’s most renowned restaurants, specialising in the best of Mediterranean food. In 1997, a year after its opening, it won prestigious prizes for best new restaurant awarded by Time Out magazine and the BBC Good Food Awards. Clarke’s book Moro: the Cookbook, is about traditional Spanish and North African food. José María is the eponymous Segovian chef of El Mesón José María, which is one of the city’s emblematic establishments. They talk to Michael Jacobs, a British travel writer, food and art critc resident in Spain.
Afterwards there is a dinner in the Antiguo Palacio Episcopal, prepared by José María to include a starter, his famous suckling pig, and fine wine.
Simultaneous translation into Spanish available
Sponsored by: PROCOSE (Promoción del Cochinillo de Segovia)
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(38) 21:30 - 22:30h, San Juan de los Caballeros, €7
Javier Marías in conversation with Manuel Rodríguez Rivero
Journalist and literary critic Manuel Rodríguez Rivero talks to one of the most important contemporary Spanish writers, Javier Marías. His work is celebrated by critics and public alike, including Corazón tan blanco (Premio de la Crítica, Prix l’Oeil et la Lettre, IMPAC International Dublin Literary Award), and Mañana en la batalla piensa en mí (Premio Fastenrath, Premio Internacional Rómulo Gallegos, Premio Arzobispo Juan de San Clemente, Prix Femina Étranger, Premio Mondello Città di Palermo). Marías talks about his latest book, the third and final volume of the trilogy Tu rostro mañana, entitled Veneno, sombra y adiós. His work has been translated into 32 languages and been published in 44 countries, with over 5.5 million copies sold throughout the world.
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(39) 21.30, Caja de Segovia (Bank of Segovia), €3
Short Shots (Reflections of Women)
‘Shorts’ followed by a conversation between Juan Luis Carabias Hernández (Short Shots) and Rita Lengyel (director) with Christian Haubner (Goethe Institute)
Goodbye
Director: Steve Hudson, 2004, 15 min.
Somewhere in Germany the police arrest and imprison a woman. Her baby has been left alone in her flat and, fearing that social services will take the child away from her, she tries to hide this fact.
Berlin-Budapest
Director: Rita Lengyel, 2006, 15 min.
Mari travels from Budapest to Berlin to look for Bálint, her childhood sweetheart, and that night realises that their relationship has no future and that they are no longer the same people who were once made for each other.
Shoot
Director: Anne Breymann, 2006, 8 min.
Sprößling tells the story of a woman who raises her dream child in a flowerpot. Her apparently perfect maternal happiness has devastating effects.
Original version with Spanish subtitles
Sponsored by: The Goethe Institute in Madrid
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(54) 11.00, San Juan de los Caballeros, €3
Guided tour of the painter Zuloaga’s hangouts
The work of Zuloaga invites a rediscovery of the Segovian capital, something that has subsequently exercised the minds of artists and intellectuals in Europe and America.
To get a closer feel of his work, there will be a visit to the Museum of Zuloaga (the second floor of the church). The tour will depart from the door of San Juan de Caballeros. From there it will continue with a visit to various locations in the city that are immortalized in his paintings.
Leaving from the entrance of the church of San Juan de los Caballeros (Zuloaga Museum)
Organised by Margarita Ruyra and Ignacio Suarez Zuloaga
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(40) 12:00 - 13:00, Caja de Segovia (Bank of Segovia), €7
Gonçalo Tavares in conversation with Lourdes Ventura
Gonçalo Tavares is one of Portugal’s most interesting writers. He has received various prizes, most notably the Branquinho da Fonseca (Expresso / Gulbenkian), the Ler /Millennium and the José Saramago Literary Prize, awarded to Portuguese writers under 35. He has written Klaus Klump, La máquina de Joseph Walser, El señor Valéry and El señor Henri. Tavares talks to the writer and journalist Lourdes Ventura.
Simultaneous translation into Spanish available
Sponsored by:The Portuguese Embassy in Spain
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(41) 12:00 – 13:00, San Juan de los Caballeros, €7
Juan Cruz in conversation with Julio Llamazares
Juan Cruz, writer and journalist for El País, and author (El territorio de la memoria, La playa del horizonte, Una memoria de El País and Retrato de un hombre desnudo) talks about his latest book, Ojalá octubre, dedicated to his father, with the writer Julio Llamazares.
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(42) 12:00 - 13:00, The Alhóndiga, €7.
Private Collecting: The Example of the MER Foundation
Including a visit to the MER Foundation
Over many years, Marcos Martín has amassed one of the most extensive and important private collections of contemporary Spanish art. A guided tour, with explanation on the formation and meaning of his collection.
Sponsored by: The MER Foundation
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(43) 13:30 – 14:30, Caja de Segovia (Bank of Segovia), €7
Literature: Exile and Memory
Murid Barguti in conversation with Mathias Enard
Murid Barguti, Palestinian writer and poet visited Ramalla thirty years after being exiled, an experience recounted in the celebrated narrative He visto Ramala, (Naguib Mahfuz Prize for Literatura 1997). He talks about literature, exile and memories with writer and Arabist Mathias Enard.
Simultaneous translation into Spanish available
Sponsored by: Casa Árabe
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(44) 13:30 - 14:30h, San Juan de Los Caballeros, €7
Arnold Wesker in conversation with Jesús Calero
The playwright talks about his career and work; since the 1959 staging of the revolutionary Roots at the Royal Court in London, his works have been translated and performed in over 40 languages. He discusses the relationship between writers and actors, his beginnings as an “angry young man”, being named a Knight of the British Empire, the works of Shakespeare, the National Theatre, the problem of anti-semitism … and much more. He talks to Jesús Calero, head of Culture and Performances at the Spanish channel ABC.
Simultaneous translation into Spanish available
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(45) 13:30 - 14:30, Museo Esteban Vicente (Esteban Vicente Museum), €7
Juan Gelman in conversation with Mercedes Monmany
Juan Gelman is considered one of the greatest contemporary poets and won the 1997 National Poetry Prize and the 2005 Reina Sofía Prize. He talks about his work, in particular Dibaxu, a series of poems that revive Sefardi music, and about the Jewish-Spanish past and its language with Mercedes Monmany, the literary critic.
Sponsored by: Casa Sefarad-Israel
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(46) 17:00 - 18:00, Caja de Segovia (Bank of Segovia), €7
Journalism in the 21st Century
Katharine Viner, Fernando Rodríguez Lafuente, Manuel Llorente, Rafael Santos y Juan Cruz
Prestigious journalists, Katharine Viner, editor of the prizewinning section of The Guardian G2, Fernando Rodríguez Lafuente, sub-editor of the television channel ABC, Manuel LLorente, cultural editor-in-chief of El Mundo and Juan Cruz, assistant editor of El País, talk about the challenges faced by their profession in the 21st century.
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(47) 17:00 - 18:00, San Juan de los Caballeros, €7
Hanif Kureishi talks to Rodrigo Fresán
Hanif Kureishi is one of the most acclaimed authors of recent years. His work as a scriptwriter includes My Beautiful Launderette, The Mother and Venus. Amongt his most famous books are The Buddha of Suburbia, Intimacy, The Black Album and My Son the Fanatic. His style is characterised by brilliant comic touches and the empathy he shows towards his characters. He talks to the writer and journalist Rodrigo Fresán.
Simultaneous translation into Spanish available
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(48) 17:00 - 18:00, Museo Esteban Vicente (Esteban Vicente Museum), €7
Bogotá39: Ronaldo Menéndez, Karla Suárez, Leonardo Valencia in conversation with Piedad Bonnett
Hay Festival and the Ayuntamiento of Bogota organised the project Bogotá39, 39 writers under 39 to celebrate the naming of the city as World Book Capital. Three of the authors selected, Ronaldo Menéndez (Cuba), Karla Suárez (Cuba) and Leonardo Valencia (Ecuador) will talk about their writing with Piedad Bonnett, writer, literary critic and member of the Bogota39 judge’s panel.
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(58) 17.00, Entrance of the Mariano Quintanilla Institute (plaza Díaz Sa), €3
Guided tour of the Machado Route of Segovia
Castilla y León commemorates the arrival of Antonio Machado to this region with the Machado route of Segovia, permitting the visitor to retrace the steps of this illustrious author, and visit parts of the city preserved in his writing. The trip incorporates part of the Institute of Mariano Quintanilla, where he taught, and ends at the doors of his house and now the museum in Desamparados Street. The Tour will visit “Machadoesque” landmarks such as the Aqueduct, The Canaleja lookout point, the Main Square, the church of San Quirze, the Alcazar and more.
Sponsored by: Caja de Segovia
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(49) 18:30 - 19:30h, Caja de Segovia (Bank of Segovia), €7
Hanah al-Shaykh talks to Mathias Enard
Hanan al-Shaykh (Lebanon), author and journalist, is one of the most important Arab writers. Her novels have been translated into Spanish (Mujeres de arena y mirra, La historia de Zahra, Barriendo el sol de los tejados and Esto es Londres) and she talks to French author Mathias Enard.
Simultaneous translation into Spanish available
Sponsored by: Casa Árabe
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(50) 18:30 - 19:30, Museo Esteban Vicente (Esteban Vicente Museum), €7
Fernando Gaitán talks to Elvira Lindo
The Art of Dialogue
Colombian scriptwriter and creator of television series, programmes and telenovelas, including Ugly Betty, the world’s most successful telenovela. Ugly Betty has been screened in over 70 countries and adapted in more than 18. Fernando Gaitán has been awarded numerous national and international prizes, including the Asociación de Cronistas del Espectáculo in 1995, and two Golden Globes in the United States as executive producer of Ugly Betty (2006). He talks about the art of dialogue with the writer, journalist and scriptwriter Elvira Lindo.
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(51) 18:30 – 20:30, San Juan de los Caballeros, €7
Poetry Gala: The Festival’s Guest Poets will recite their poems on this special evening.
A group made up of some of the best international poets will close the Festival by reciting their poetry: Antonio Gamoneda, Cesar Antonio Molina (Spain), Juan Gelman (Argentina), Piedad Bonnett, Darío Jaramillo Agudelo (Colombia), Ronny Someck (Israel), Menna Elfyn (Great Britain), Murid Barguti (Palestine) Tishani Doshi (India) and Wole Soyinka (Nigeria). Event chaired by Marifé Santiago, the writer and journalist.
Sponsored by: The AECI, Casa Árabe, Casa Israel-Sefarad, the autonomous government of Castille and Leon and the Embassies of Colombia and Israel in Spain.