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Table for Two, by Amor Towles (USA), includes six tales that take place around the year 2000, as well as a novella set during the Golden Age of Hollywood. There is apparently no connection among the stories, but they deal with universal themes, including the search for happiness, the power of money, and the subversion of social conventions. The author of the memorable A Gentleman in Moscow once again creates fascinating characters who talk about relationships, family, trust, ambition, guilt and the value of friendship. He talks to Santiago Ángel.

Simultaneous interpretation from English to Spanish available

All events on Saturday, January 31st will be free for people with ID from the department of Bolívar. Complimentary tickets can be requested —up to capacity— at the box office of the Hay Festival (Centro de Convenciones) showing your identification on the same day the event is taking place.

With plays such as Art and God of Carnage, which have played in over 30 countries, Yasmina Reza (France) has created a position for herself as one of the most respected and interesting of contemporary playwrights. She is also an actor (Lejos, Hasta mañana…), filmmaker (Chicas), novelist (Babylone, Serge…) and screenwriter (Jusqu’à la nuit, la noche, Le pique-nique de Lulu Kreutz). In her latest book, Récits de certains faits, she brings together personal memories and trial reports in order to investigate moral fragility and everyday imperfection. A biting, psychological observation of the human, using concise and incisive texts.

Simultaneous interpretation from French to Spanish available

All events on Saturday, January 31st will be free for people with ID from the department of Bolívar. Complimentary tickets can be requested —up to capacity— at the box office of the Hay Festival (Centro de Convenciones) showing your identification on the same day the event is taking place.

Annie Jacobsen (USA) was a Pulitzer Prize finalist with The Pentagon’s Brain, which was a detailed look into the US military and intelligence apparatus, a field that she has also dealt with in Area 51 and Operation Paperclip. Her latest book, Nuclear War: a Scenario, describes —using realistic events, actions and protocols— how exactly the nuclear war that would bring about the end of humanity might unfold.

Simultaneous interpretation from English to Spanish available

All events on Saturday, January 31st will be free for people with ID from the department of Bolívar. Complimentary tickets can be requested —up to capacity— at the box office of the Hay Festival (Centro de Convenciones) showing your identification on the same day the event is taking place.

Justicia is Janne Teller’s first novel in eleven years. She is known around the world for works such as Nothing, and the Danish writer has needed two decades to complete this book, whose origins lie in a time when she worked as a UN diplomat. Set against the backdrop of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict —“the mother of all conflicts” according to the author—, she traces the complex relationship between a father, a UN representative, and his activist daughter, whose killing he must try to come to terms with. In conversation with Marianne Ponsford.

Simultaneous interpretation from English to Spanish available

All events on Saturday, January 31st will be free for people with ID from the department of Bolívar. Complimentary tickets can be requested —up to capacity— at the box office of the Hay Festival (Centro de Convenciones) showing your identification on the same day the event is taking place.

The Hay Festival Cartagena de Indias will be the setting for the global presentation of the book Silvio Rodríguez, diario de un trovador. The texts that the singer-songwriter has written especially for this book include fragments of his private diary, and these are combined with 143 unpublished photos by Daniel Mordzinski.. The two authors will talk about the nine years that they have been working together, during which Mordzinski has portrayed, unfiltered and with full creative freedom, the family life of Silvio Rodríguez,, his tours in Latin America and Spain, his encounters with other creators and the essential geographies of his life, including his hometown of San Antonio de los Baños.

All events on Saturday, January 31st will be free for people with ID from the department of Bolívar. Complimentary tickets can be requested —up to capacity— at the box office of the Hay Festival (Centro de Convenciones) showing your identification on the same day the event is taking place.

The writer and political analyst León Valencia has created a work of fiction about friendship and love in La vida infausta del negro Apolinar. In this conversation, he will talk to Mábel Lara about a novel that tells the story of the protagonist’s last adventure. In it, Apolinar Mosquera, aged and infirm, asks an old friend to keep a promise: that he tell his story. So begins an exchange of letters that open up memories and revisit a shared pain whose wound was never healed.

All events on Saturday, January 31st will be free for people with ID from the department of Bolívar. Complimentary tickets can be requested —up to capacity— at the box office of the Hay Festival (Centro de Convenciones) showing your identification on the same day the event is taking place.

All the indicators are telling us that journalism is in crisis. Those who run the most important media organisations face a host of challenges: politicians at war with the media, fake news and post-truth, falling readerships, the delegitimisation of the profession, workers’ conditions in the industry, the killings of journalists in Latin America… However, despite it all, the major media organisations are still our fourth estate. To celebrate 50 years of El País, Jan Martínez Ahrens, the newspaper’s Editor-in-Chief will talk to Carlos Fernando Chamorro, founder and director of the Nicaraguan outlet Confidencial –currently operating from exile in Costa Rica–; and Denise Maerker, one of Mexico’s most respected voices, who currently presents N+ and writes for Milenio. The three will discuss these matters, and will talk to a colleague in the profession, the Colombian Diana Calderón (Caracol Radio).

All events on Sunday, January 1st will be free for people with ID from the department of Bolívar. Complimentary tickets can be requested —up to capacity— at the box office of the Hay Festival (Centro de Convenciones) showing your identification on the same day the event is taking place.

The links between two of the most terrible dictatorships of the 20th century are to be found in 38 Londres Street, by Philippe Sands (UK). The Nazi criminal Walter Rauff ended up in Punta Arenas, in Chilean Patagonia, collaborating with the Pinochet regime. Sands, who worked as a lawyer in the former dictator’s trial, reconstructs the relationship between Rauff and Pinochet, a story of justice and impunity told using documents, archives and testimonies.

Simultaneous interpretation from English to Spanish available

All events on Sunday, January 1st will be free for people with ID from the department of Bolívar. Complimentary tickets can be requested —up to capacity— at the box office of the Hay Festival (Centro de Convenciones) showing your identification on the same day the event is taking place.