Hay Festival Cartagena 2023

A look at the work of our favourite writers through the more intimate format of the book club, together with Ana María Aponte. Olga Montero Rose (Peru) is the author of Cortejo, a novel that tells the story of Simona, a woman in her mid-40s who has just lost her mother, one of the pillars of her life, and who, around this time, meets a woman who makes her question many of the certainties she once held. The story evolves through the sessions Simona attends weekly with her analyst, which involve examining her experiences of childhood, bereavement, desire and the birth of a new love.

In 2016, the data agency Cambridge Analytica manipulated, through Facebook, the information received by over 86 million users to influence the result of the US presidential elections and the Brexit referendum that same year. Carole Cadwalladr, a British investigative journalist who works for The Guardian, was the one who broke the scandal. Although Cambridge Analytica no longer exists, there are other companies that are still involved in similar practices. At this event, Cadwalladr will talk about the personal and professional consequences that she continues to face to this day for making her investigation public, and she will also discuss the importance of freedom of speech for democracy. In conversation with Emma Graham-Harrison.

Simultaneous interpreting from English to Spanish available

Jacqueline Novogratz (United States) is the founder and CEO of the Acumen Fund, a pioneering non-profit investment fund that uses business strategies to solve some of the problems of global poverty. A former investment banker, Novogratz is also the author of The Blue Sweater, a book that aims to revise the notion of charity, proposing a form of philanthropical investment she calls “patient capital”. In her new book, Manifesto for a Moral Revolution, she talks about the new skills and values needed to live together in this world. She will talk to the journalist Andrea Bernal.

Simultaneous interpreting from English to Spanish available

The singer and songwriter Ileana Cabra (iLe), who began her career rapping with Calle 13 and won a Grammy with her first solo album, has used musical form to speak out about abuses of power and colonialism; to process the reality that involves her as a woman and a Puerto Rican, as she did during the protests that brought down the island’s government in 2019 and as she does in her latest album, released in 2022, Nacarile. In this special episode of El hilo, recorded live, the artist will talk about her way of working with reality, about the voices of women in the industry, about the power of the stage and of songs to make people heard, to translate something that can touch us all. In conversation with Silvia Viñas and Eliezer Budasoff.

This event will be recorded and later broadcast as a podcast

Maria Ressa (Philippines), is the journalist that won the Peace Nobel Prize in 2021 for work denouncing Duterte's regimen, corruption and and brutality; she will be presenting her latest book, How to Stand Up to a Dictator: The Fight for Our Future, a call to the world to raise awareness about social media misinformation and a passionate manifesto about the importance of the freedom of press to ensure democracy's health versus abuse of power by those who control media, said Rodrigo Duterte o Mark Zuckeberg. In conversation with Lydia Cacho.

Simultaneous interpreting from English to Spanish available

The guests at this event have made changes to the world for which they have been recognized; all of them have experience working for social change, creating and maintaining organizations that have had a positive impact on the lives of many. Andrew Bastawrous (United Kingdom) leads Peek Vision, whose platform strengthens health systems to improve vision and eye health. María Adelaida López (Colombia) is the head of aeioTU, a social enterprise that develops the potential of childhoods throughout Colombia and which offers education of quality, helping to decrease the inequality gap. Louisa Mitchell (United Kingdom) runs West London Zone, an organization that works with young people at risk of social exclusion, and with their families and educators. Andrea Bernal will talk to these guests about the reasons they have chosen the area where they work, what motivates them and what their personal experiences have been.

Simultaneous interpreting from English to Spanish available

The transmission of violence and trauma between generations is the foundation for the latest novel by the French writer Jean-Baptiste del Amo. Le fils de l’homme is the story of a man who comes back to his partner and his son after a long absence and who takes them to live in a remote mountain home, as his father once did with him. But the mother and son soon feel claustrophobic under the control of a father tormented by his own relationship with his parent. Speaking to Juan Mauel Ruiz, the author will talk about how this novel came about, and about some of his themes, such as the transmission of violence within a family and man’s domination of nature.

Simultaneous interpreting from French to Spanish available

Two Colombian thinkers, Catalina Cortés Severino y Laura Quintana Porras, one an anthropologist, the other a philosopher, and both writers, reflect on the emotions in their recent and original book Esos afectos voraces: Una correspondencia, in which they use the epistolary form to exchange thoughts, drawing on the knowledge of their own disciplines in order to examine human experiences. A look at the emotions and how they structure and define experience (from the personal to the collective) and our own culture. In conversation with the BBC Mundo journalist, Andrea Díaz Cardona.