Segovia 2014

Lydia Cacho, one of today's most authoritative voices in the defence of human rights, has written Rebeldes y Libres as a plea for the freedom and rebelliousness of young Spanish women. The idea came about after a long time spent interviewing hundreds of girls under the age of eighteen in Spain on topics including their dreams, aspirations, their fears, their needs, their sexual identity. These diverse young women expressed their opinions openly and spoke candidly of they think about feminism. A writer, investigative journalist, feminist and documentary producer, she has won more than 65 international awards, including the Harold Pinter Prize (UK), the UNESCO Guillermo Cano Prize (France), the Olof Palme Award (Sweden) and the Periodistas de El Mundo (Spain). She has published nineteen books, translated into twenty languages, including Memorias de una infamia, Esclavas del poder, Sexo y amor en tiempos de crisis, #EllosHablan and Cartas de amor y rebeldía.

She will talk to the journalist and El País writer, Berna González Harbour in a conversation that forms part of the series of Hispanic American Dialogues.

At the end of the event, the authors will sign copies of their books at the book stall on Calle Real.

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Culture has always been a driving force for social change, defending legacies a memories as our common heritage. At the same time, it generates identities that can serve to promote interculturality. Social achievements always come from cultural shifts and movements. Sonia Mulero and Jaime de los Santos will talk about the transformative power of culture.

Mulero, director of the Banco Sabadell Foundation, was named in 2019's Top 100 Women Leaders in the tertiary sector in Spain. She is a midwife in Concomitentes, member of the board of Fundaciones por la Ciencia (FECYT) and member of the board of #FundacionesPorElClima of the AEF. Strategic Management and Social Leadership Program at IESE, Financial and Tax Postgraduate at EADA, Psychology UOC. Higher degree Nursing. Extensive experience in the management of non-profit entities in projects related to the training of talent that promote creativity and innovation. Fulfilling the purpose of connecting, accompanying and transforming organizations and people through shared experiences and networking. She was General Director of Fundación Inlea (CSR OF Inlea Corporation, linked to Cisco Systems) and Assistant to Management at CIDOB.

De los Santos is a politician, historian and writer. He was Minister of Culture for the Madrid Region. He is a regular columnist for El Confidencial, and he published his first novel, Si te digo que lo hice, in 2022.

At the end of the event, Jaime de los Santos will sign copies of her books at the book stall on Calle Real.

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Elizabeth II was not predisposed to rule, any more than her father and grandfather were. But she took up the reins of an empire and led her people through decades that transformed society, and in which she had to deal with events as significant as her uncle's abdication and war, as well as romance, danger, tragedy and triumph. Robert Hardman reflects on her extraordinary life and its cultural impact, in conversation with Hugh Elliott, UK Ambassador to Spain.

Hardman is a renowned author, royal analyst and filmmaker, who has covered the British monarchy for three decades. He is the author of the film and book Monarchy: The Royal Family at Work, as well as Her Majesty and Queen of the World and Life of a Queen. Elizabeth II 1926-2022. He writes for the Daily Mail newspaper in London.

The event will be introduced by Caroline Michel, a leading figure in the British cultural world and global President of the Hay Festivals.

At the end of the event, the author will sign his works at the book stall outside IE University.

With simultaneous translation from English to Spanish and vice versa.

Carlos Zanón and Ray Loriga are multifaceted writers who have worked with novels, film scripts, criticism, press articles, and children's literature. Both have written exceptional works in genres such as Zanón’s noir work, or Loriga’s minimalist realism. Their latest novels treat, from different angles, love, the loss of youth, illness, suicide, how to face death and the loss of illusion. Either from the Suicide Assistance Center or in the bizarre route of three musicians through campsites on the Mediterranean coast, the protagonists of both authors are escaping towards the end. Both draw on what pop culture has nurtured them to get on with life and stay alive. And both resolve the leap into the void, each one as their literary world leadas them to accept: credible, original, hopeful and deeply personal. They will discuss this in a conversation moderated by El Mundo journalist Luis Alemany.

Zanón has published some twenty works, including Tarde, mal y nunca (2009), Yo fui Johnny Thunders (2014, Hammet Award) Taxi (2017), or Love Song (2022), and the articles compilation Cien formas de romper un glaciar (2023).Loriga, writer, screenwriter and film director, has published works such as Héroes (1993), Rendición (2017, Alfaguara Novel Prize) and Cualquier verano es un final (2023).

At the end of the event, the authors will sign copies of their books at the book stall at the main entrance of IE University.

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Print journalism is going through a phase of ongoing change and reinvention. The capacity of culture to reinvent ideas and contribute to business has led to the creation of ABC Cultural Premium, the first initiative that allows you to become a digital subscriber to just the cultural section of a daily newspaper. The Culture section is one of the mainstays of ABC's core offer, which is why it has created this option that offers access to the supplement and much more content. The novelist and journalist Karina Sainz Borgo, currently a columnist for ABC and author of two successful novels (the most recent being El tercer país), and the columnist and writer José Peláez and historian, journalist, and co-founder of Zendalibros.com and the Zenda-Edhasa publishing house, María José Solano. The event will be moderated by the director of ABC Cultural, Jesús García Calero.

At the end of the event, the authors will sign copies of their books at the book stall at the entrance of the IE University.

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Journalists and writers from El País Juan Carlos Galindo and Berna González Harbour talk about literature in this event and, in particular, about the cities that act as settings in crime fiction. González Harbor gave Madrid the crime novel that the city had been waiting for with Verano en rojo (Destino ), now adapted for cinema. Thus began the series of the curator María Ruiz, who travels between the capital and Santander, and with which the author has won the Dashiell Hammett Award of the Gijón Black Week in 2020. Galindo has framed Hontoria, his debut in fiction (Salamandra), in Segovia, the city where he was born and grew up.

At the end of the event, the authors will sign copies of their books at the book stall on Calle Real.

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Join us for a dynamic conversation about technology and creativity between two global voices John Maeda and Ikhlaq Sidhu. In this engaging dialogue, Maeda, renowned artist and designer, author of several books including How to Speak Machine: Computational Thinking for the Rest of Us and Sidhu, prominent computer engineer, chief scientist, and author of Engineering Innovation: A Practical Guide to Creating Something New, will bring together their expertise to explore the limitless possibilities that occur when art, technology and innovation meet.

After the event, there will be a book signing at the book stall at the main entrance of the IE University

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Film director, producer and screenwriter Kike Maíllo is currently shooting his latest film in Barcelona. Winner of the Goya Award for Best New Director for Eva (2011), he already has a long career of short movies and feature films behind him. For his new project, he has decided to work with the diplomat and cultural manager Santiago Herrero, for whom he has reserved an acting role. Herrero has led the cultural management of Acción Cultural Española, AC/E and now of AECID. Both will talk about what their likes, about cinema, new productions and the panorama of the Spanish film sector.

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Valerie Miles, writer, translator and editor of Granta, is the curator of the Correspondence section of the magazine Cuadernos Hispanoamericanos in which two writers explore the epistolary form and its function as a philosophical parenthesis in everyday life: a remote conversation that is projected in the imagination, where the interior and sequential voice invites us to enter a strange intimacy. Miguel Ángel Hérnandez is the author of award-winning novels such as El dolor de los demás and Anoxia, as well as an art historian and Berta Ares, a journalist and cultural researcher, author of Joseph Roth, Legacy and Testament.

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Does digital cultural content in Spanish travel? This is the theme presented by Acción Cultural Española (AC/E) in the Focus of the AC/E Digital Culture Annual Report (AC/E Yearbook of Digital Culture 2023). Thanks to an exhaustive study, it presents the panorama of digital cultural content in Spanish; the most popular topics, its export to other markets and its transformation into other formats: including music, books, audiobooks, films, TV series, podcasts, video games, and plays.

The AC/E Digital Culture Yearbook is the result of internal reflection begun in 2013 by Acción Cultural Española on how to incorporate the digital dimension into its objectives and support the digitisation of the cultural sector. The publication reflects the impact that the internet is having on our society; books that become films, podcasts that become books, video games that emerge as TV series. In this session, which will be attended by podcaster Molo Cebrían, —the creator of the most listened to psychology podcast in Spanish in the world, Entiende tu mente—, will analyse how the contents of the cultural industries are transformed into multiple formats and travel around the world. The event will be moderated by Javier Celaya.

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The alternatives that life gives us is to be sane and die of boredom or to be away with the fairies taking us closer to madness, with all its woes and freedoms. In her latest work, El peligro de estar cuerda, the writer Rosa Montero reflects, in a profound yet amusing way, on what it means to be different, to think and act without rules, and how close she came to losing her mind. She will do so in conversation with Ana Gavín, Director of Editorial Relations at Grupo Planeta.

Montero, a native of Madrid, studied Journalism and Psychology. She is the author, of novels including Crónica del desamor, Te trataré como a una reina, Amado amo, Temblor, Bella y oscura, La hija del caníbal, El corazón del Tártaro, La loca de la casa (winner of the Qué Leer and Grinzane Cavour awards), Historia del Rey Transparente (Qué Leer award), La ridícula idea de no volver a verte and El peligro de estar cuerda. Her journalistic career has been recognised by the National Journalism Prize, the Rodríguez Santamaría Prize and the El Mundo Journalism Prize, among others. In November 2017 she was awarded the Premio Nacional de las Letras in recognition of her career as a novelist, journalist and essayist.

At the end of the event, the author will sign copies of her books at the book stall on Calle Real.

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What happened that night? The question that prompts the narrator of the animated film They Shot the Piano Player sets off an investigation into the fateful event that took the life of Francisco Tenório Cerqueira Jr, a musician destined to change the course of Brazilian music forever. Fernando Trueba and Javier Mariscal talk to the Head of Culture of Cadena SER, Pepa Blanes, about what led them to undertake this passion project, which will be released in theatres on October 6, and whose graphic novel adaptation has just been published by Salamandra Graphic.

Mariscal is an internationally renowned illustrator and designer who won the National Design Award in 1999. He is best known for being the creator of Cobi, the mascot of the Barcelona ’92 Olympic Games. He has exhibited his work at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, the MOMA, the Victoria & Albert Museum, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the IVAM and the MACBA. Trueba (Madrid, 1955) is a world-renowned Spanish film director, screenwriter and producer. His most critically acclaimed films include Belle Époque (The Age of Beauty), winner of nine Goya awards and the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, and La niña de tus ojos,(The Girl of Your Dreams) also a multi-award winner at the Goya Awards. The collaboration between the two artists was already reflected in Chico y Rita, an animated film also adapted to a graphic novel that won the Goya for Best Animated Film, received an Oscar nomination in the same category and won the European Film Award.

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A conversation between Cristina Carrillo de Albornoz and Paula Quinteros on the key themes of the novel Un beso en Tokio, in which issues such as the role of art, the paradox of mystery, ephemeral beauty, the unexpected dissatisfaction of success, the part chance plays in our existence, and the power of love will be explored or the importance of elegance.

Carrillo de Albornoz is a former United Nations diplomat who since 1996 has worked as an curator in the world's leading art museums such as the Hermitage in St Petersburg, the National Gallery in Berlin, the Glyptoteca in Munich, the Botero Museum in Bogota, the National Museum in Beijing and the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid. She has written twelve books; Un beso en Tokio is her first novel in Spanish. Quinteros is a Spanish-Argentine businesswoman, editor and journalist, CEO of The Objective. In 2005 she founded Clímax, a culture and research magazine awarded with the SIP Award. In 2014 she founded the digital medium The Objective, Best General Media in Spain by the Open Publishers Club (CLABE) in 2022. She also created El Estímulo, a digital medium recognized with two SIP Awards for Journalistic Excellence in 2017 and 2018. In 2023, she was awarded the prize for Influence at the IV Communication Awards

The conversation will be moderated by Philippine González-Camino Editorial Director of La Huerta Grande

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After the event, Cristina Carrillo de Albornoz will sign copies of her works at the book stall on Calle Real.

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Four women deeply interested in women's leadership, from women in business to coaching for —and by— women. All four of these leaders understand the transformational change needed to unlock women's presents and futures, and the critical collaboration needed between women to see that this is realised.

Cece Helgesen is the one representig this afternoon Sally Helgesen, the world's leading Forbes-cited expert on women's leadership and author of the best-selling leadership books worldwide, with a place in the Thinkers 50 Hall of Fame; Julie Finch, CEO of the Hay Festival, leader and expert in the culture and creative sectors and in private and public not-for profit organisations such as the Arts Council England; and Maria Antonia Elliott, coach and yoga trainer share their views and experiences in a discussion moderated by Marta Williams, IE University professor, and expert in executive leadership and coaching for women leaders.

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Javier Cercas (Ibahernando, Cáceres, 1962) has been saying things since he published his first novel in 1987. Nothing in his fiction is alien to his environment, to the society and circumstances that surround him. They are contexts that help us understand the characters in his works and their stories. But there is also the article writer and essayist Javier Cercas, where reality takes centre stage, and he is the protagonist, as in his latest book No Callar. Crónicas, ensayos y artículos 2000-2022. Author of novels such as El vientre de la ballena (The Whale’s Belly, 1997), Soldados de Salamina (Soldiers of Salamis, 2001), Anatomía de un instante (Anatomy of a Moment, 2009), Terra Alta (a Planeta Prize-winner in 2019) and Independencia (Independence, 2021). His books have been translated into more than 30 languages and have won the most prestigious awards, such as the Premio Nacional in Spain, the United Kingdom’s Foreign Fiction Prize, the Mondello Prize in Italy, the Malraux Prize in France, and the Prize for the Best European Novel awarded by the European Parliament. He has also been awarded major awards for essays and journalism, such as the Francisco Cerecedo and the Mariano de Cavia awards in Spain.

He will talk about his latest work and his career with the journalist Vicente Vallés, who currently presents and directs the news programme Noticias 2 on Antena 3 TV channel. He is the author of the essay Trump y la caída del imperio Clinton (Trump and the Fall of the Clinton Empire, 2017) and the novel Operación Kazán (Kazan Operation, 2022).

At the end of the event, the authors will sign their works at the bookstand in front of the IE University.

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The notion that history is told by the victors is only half true. They are the first to come up with the story, but then there are the scholars and writers – of fiction and non-fiction - who work with proven facts and real people. In this session, Julia Navarro and Santiago Posteguillo, explore their ambitions to reach thousands of readers by recreating the epic biographies of some of history’s protagonists, and fictional characters who had the good fortune or misfortune to live through great historical events and as such led extraordinary lives.

Navarro is a journalist and writer. She made her literary name with La hermandad de la Sábana Santa (The Sisterhood of the Holy Shroud), which was published in 30 countries. The success of her books, which regularly hit the bestseller lists, led her to leave journalism. Her titles include novels such as Dime quién soy, Dispara, yo ya estoy muerto, Tú no matarás, and, most recently, Una historia compartida.

Posteguillo is a philologist, linguist and writer. The literary prizes he has been awarded include the Premio de la Semana de Novela Histórica de Cartagena, the Premio a las Letras de la Generalitat Valenciana in 2010, and the 2014 Premio Barcino de Novela Histórica de Barcelona. In 2018, he was awarded the Planeta Prize for his novel Yo, Julia, followed by the publication of Y Julia retó a los dioses in 2020. His latest novel, Roma soy yo, published by Ediciones B, is the first in a series that will cover the complete biography of Julius Caesar and has been described by the author himself as his most ambitious work.

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The authors will sign their books after the event.

With an extensive career as a member of the National English Opera (ENO) and the Welsh Opera House, tenor Marc Le Broq marks his presence at Hay Festival Segovia 2023. With a repertoire ranging from Cavalli, Debussy, Wagner, Puccini, Strauss, Verdi and much more, with outstanding appearances at the most important festivals in the world (Salzburg, Grimeborn, Southwell) and records recorded with the best publishers and most relevant music entities, Lebroq will engage in a conversation with journalist Irene Hernández Velasco about his career as a tenor and the problems that beset the world of opera today.

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Another session of Propios y Ajenos (Our Own and Others' Works), a cycle of live poetry readings now in its 15th year as part of Hay Festival Segovia will take place in the Romeral de San Marcos, the private garden of the landscape designer and architect Leandro Silva, whose work included the restoration of the Botanical Gardens of Madrid. José Antonio Municio, an expert on the garden's history, will reveal some of its secrets.

Isabelle Berneron, Julia Casaravilla, Hugh Elliott, Maria Antonia Elliott, Julie Finch, Javier Gila, Buccino Grimaldi, Cece Helgesen, Santiago Herrero, Caroline Michel, D Hanspeter Mock and Ainhoa Sánchez will read texts of their own or of their favourite poets in a walk through the corners of the Jardín Romeral de San Marcos. The readers will be joined by master of ceremony Félix Valdivieso.

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War Stories is an event in which 7 of El País's 15 special envoys to the war in Ukraine share their experiences. Under the artistic direction of Raúl Fernández de Pablo and with the participation of violinist María Teresa Gamaza, journalists Luis de Vega, Luis Doncel, Albert García, Jacobo García, Óscar Gutiérrez, María Sahuquillo and Cristian Segura tell their personal stories from their coverage of the conflict.

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The irruption of highly advanced processes of generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) has a disruptive potential greater than that of any other past technological advances. In the case of culture, the development of pre-trained dialogue models forces us to rethink concepts that previously seemed immutable: nothing less than the very notion of the artist or content creator is at stake. Every technological revolution has undeniable advantages, such as the expansion of the limits of art. But there are also obvious risks. How will this process affect the very concept of authorship and the defence of intellectual property? The novelist and journalist Karina Sainz Borgo is currently a columnist for ABC and author of two successful novels (the latest, El tercer país), and the editor and columnist for La Vanguardia, Daniel Fernández is also president of the Federación de Gremios de editores de España and of the Real Patronato de la Biblioteca Nacional. They will discuss the subject in a debate moderated by Miquel Molina, deputy director of La Vanguardia, essayist and novelist.

At the end of the event, the author will sign copies of her books at the book stall on Calle Real.

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