Hay Festival Cartagena 2023

A fascinating discussion about the genre of travel writing with two great journalists and non-fiction authors: the US Jon Lee Anderson, aauthor of books such as Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life, The Fall of Baghdad and Los años de la espiral: Crónicas de América Latina; and Óscar Martínez (El Salvador), Head Writer at El Faro and author of Los migrantes que no importan, El niño de Hollywood and the recent Los muertos y el periodista. In conversation with the writer Teresita Goyeneche.

Deforme Semanal Ideal Total is a fortnightly radio programme for Radio Primavera Sound on which Isabel Calderón and Lucía Lijtmaer give their particular vision of contemporary life and culture, with laughter, some emphatic explanations and, in short, everything you need to know in an hour just for you. Ondas Award for Best Podcast in 2021 and Best Podcast of the Year at the Global Ondas Podcast Awards in 2022 “for creating a radio show with a provocative, feminist view of culture and life”. One of Spain’s most popular shows, with listeners in Argentina, Mexico, Colombia and Chile. ​

This event will be recorded and later broadcast as a podcast

Dan Saladino (United Kingdom) is a BBC journalist who specializes in food and for 25 years he has travelled the world documenting and reporting on edible plant varieties that are at risk of disappearing. His work related to this issue and reflecting on the importance of food diversity has given rise to the book Eating to Extinction. In conversation with Mercedes Cebrián.

Simultaneous interpreting from English to Spanish available

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

An intimate, brave and moving book about a journalist who becomes a symbol of the fight for human rights. The author Lydia Cacho (Mexico) submerges herself in 46 years’ worth of diaries, photographs, letters and other mementos that she kept, as if she knew she would become a pioneering feminist journalist. In Cartas de amor y rebeldía, Cacho traces a life committed to existential search, romance, passion, poetry and the indignation of living in an unjust world. This is her most intimate and revelatory book. In conversation with Mábel Lara.

Esther Paniagua in conversation with Nelson Jiménez