Hay Festival Cartagena 2023

Welcome to the Hay Festival Cartagena de Indias 2023 programme, to be held from 26 to 29 January. In this page you can find the events in the general programme as well as Hay Joven activities tor university audiences, Hay Comunitario sessions which will take place in different areas of Cartagena, Reading Clubs and Talento Editorial.

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Event HC2

Young reporters with Catalina Gómez Ángel

 Casa Hay (Claustro de las Ánimas, Centro de Convenciones)
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The journalist Catalina Gómez Ángel (Colombia) works in the Middle East as a correspondent, covering events in countries such as Syria, Palestine, Iraq and Afghanistan where she spent time after the fall of the government and the rise of the Taliban. She is the co-author of the book Balas para todas: Seis mujeres journalists en Oriente Medio y el Magreb (2021). This highly experienced reporter will offer a workshop for young community reporters.
For ages over 14
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Young reporters with Catalina Gómez Ángel

Event HJ1

BBC communication workshop

With Andrea Díaz Cardona, Daniel Pardo y Mar Pichel

 Universidad de Cartagena, Sala de Lectura Biblioteca Fernández de Madrid (Claustro de San Agustín)
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The journalism workshop offered by BBC professionals returns. Designed for communication students in particular and students in general, and featuring Andrea Díaz Cardona, Daniel Pardo and Mar Pichel, members of the BBC Mundo team. They will explain the work model of one of the world’s most respected media outlets, known for its news rigour and quality, talking about how they convey news and content in this digital era.

To participate in this workshop, please fill in the form you will find in this link
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Event HJ2

Jon Lee Anderson and Óscar Martínez in conversation with Teresita Goyeneche

 Universidad de Cartagena, Aula Máxima de Derecho (Claustro de San Agustín)
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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.

In 2014, the Gabo Foundation and the Hay Festival Cartagena de Indias, as part of an alliance which was to last over a decade, decided to organize, in homage to the English writer, the Michael Jacobs Travel Writing Grant, an award supported by the Michael Jacobs Foundation.
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Event 4

Moisés Naím in conversation with Michael Stott

The return of the powerful

 Centro de Convenciones (Auditorio Getsemaní)
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The journalist, writer and political pundit Moisés Naím (Venezuela) presents his most recent book, La revancha de los poderosos: Cómo los autócratas están reinventando la política en el siglo XXI. Naím is a distinguished member of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, and directs and presents the television programme Efecto Naím. In his new book, he talks about the relationship between technology and other factors such as the excessive concentration, or fragmentation in some cases, of power, focussing on the three P’s: populism, polarization and post-truth. In conversation with Michael Stott.
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Event 7

Patricia Nieto and María Emma Wills in conversation with Karim Ganem Maloof

History for a better future

 Centro de Convenciones (Auditorio Getsemaní)
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A journalist and a political scientist both present books that deal with the recent history of Colombia, from a reporter’s point of view, in the case of Nieto, and as an essayist in the case of Wills. Telling this history is essential to the creation of a plural, peaceful future that includes voices other than those that traditionally constitute power. With Patricia Nieto (Colombia), a journalist who has won the Simón Bolívar National Journalism Prize and the José Martí Latin American Journalism Prize; her most recent book, Crónicas del paraíso (2022), is a compilation of thirty years of reporting on the war in Colombia, giving a face and a voice to the victims. And with María Emma Wills (Colombia), a political scientist and lecturer at the University of the Andes, advisor to the National Centre for Historical Memory, and also to the District Institute of Cultural Heritage, and a member of the Historical Commission on the Conflict and its Victims. Her book Memorias para la paz o memorias para la guerra is a reflection on the importance of telling a plural narrative of the events that constitute our history. In conversation with Karim Ganem Maloof.
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Event 8

Deforme Semanal Ideal Total

Isabel Calderón and Lucía Lijtmaer

 Teatro Adolfo Mejía
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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

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Event 18

Dan Saladino in conversation with Mercedes Cebrián

Saving food to save the world

 Teatro Adolfo Mejía
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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.

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Event 21

Carole Cadwalladr in conversation with Emma Graham-Harrison

Cambridge Analytica

 Centro de Convenciones (Auditorio Getsemaní)
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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

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Event 35

Guillermo Altares, María Jesús Espinosa de los Monteros and Carolina Guerrero in conversation with Jaime Abello Banfi

Not without my podcasts

 Hotel Sofitel, Salón Santa Clara
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The star format of our century; a way of communicating and telling stories in a way that brings together the magic of radio with the narrative power of episodes. We can no longer live without podcasts. Jaime Abello Banfi (Colombia), Fundacion Gabo Director, will talk to three experts: Guillermo Altares (Spain), of La Cultureta; María Jesús Espinosa de los Monteros (Spain), general director of Prisa Audio; and Carolina Guerrero (Colombia), Radio Ambulante Studios CEO.


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Event 38

Óscar Martínez, Bruno Paes Manso and Ronna Rísquez in conversation with Jon Lee Anderson

Journalism to solve the crime

 Teatro Adolfo Mejía
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Contemporary stories of violence; journalists who are both brave and good writers, who offer a critical view and can contextualize some of the most important democratic and human crises of the region. Jon Lee Anderson will talk to Óscar Martínez (El Salvador), author of Los muertos y el periodista; Bruno Paes Manso (Brazil), author of República de Paramilitares; and Ronna Rísquez (Venezuela), author of El Tren de Aragua.
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Event 39

Mercedes Cebrián in conversation with Margarita Valencia

Writing for the senses

 Centro de Formación de la Cooperación Española (Salón del Rey)
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The Spanish writer, literary critic and journalist, Mercedes Cebrián, has recently published Cocido y violonchelo, a book that brings together her two passions, gastronomy and music, tackling them from her point of view as a writer. Other titles of hers include Muchacha de Castilla, Burp. Apuntes gastronómicos, Malgastar, La nueva taxidermia and Mercado común. She has also published poems, essays and short stories in outlets such as Revista de Occidente, Letras Libres, The Indian Quarterly, Poetry London, Gatopardo, Diario de Poesía, Quimera and Circumference, and she was guest editor at the Caballo de Troya imprint in 2018. She will talk to Margarita Valencia.
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Event 40

Andrea Díaz Cardona, Jitomakury and Ñek+na Zafiango in conversation with Daniel Pardo

El holocausto del caucho

 Hotel Sofitel, Salón Santa Clara
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Screening of the BBC Mundo documentary Los sobrevivientes del “holocausto del caucho” en Colombia, which portrays a moment of our recent history that is often ignored. This is the history of how slavery and extermination reduced the population of La Chorrera (Colombia) from a hundred thousand people to just 64. In this conversation, the documentary maker, Andrea Díaz, the Uitoto filmmaker Jitomakury, and the Uitoto elder Ñek+na Zafiango, sabedora Uitoto, will talk about the investigation that went into the documentary, in conversation with Daniel Pardo.
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Event 42

Emma Graham-Harrison, María Elvira Samper and Fernando Travesí in conversation with Marta Ruiz

Peace, war, (in)security

 Centro de Convenciones (Salón Barahona Escenario Gales / Llwyfan Cymru)
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Living in peace: a human right for which, unfortunately, the conditions are not always in place. Wars, violent actions by illegal groups, societies in which security is an urgent and fundamental matter, above and beyond matters like education and health. What is to be done in these cases? We talk to three different voices who, based on their respective experiences, will talk about how to seek this peace which is so important for citizens’ well-being. With the British journalist Emma Graham-Harrison, the Colombian journalist María Elvira Samper and the Executive Director of the ICTJ, Fernando Travesí (Spain), in conversation with Marta Ruiz.
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Event 45

Lydia Cacho in conversation with Mábel Lara

Letters of love and rebellion

 Hotel Sofitel, Salón Santa Clara
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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.

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Event 49

Lydia Cacho, John Galán Casanova and Daniel Samper Pizano in conversation with Primitivo Olvera

Professional wrestling

 Hotel Sofitel, Salón Santa Clara
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In Mexico and other Latin American countries, professional wrestling is a sport, spectacle, popular art and the subject of sociological study. Lydia Cacho, the well-known Mexican journalist, knew all the greats of the ring as a girl who accompanied her mother to cover the wrestling event news. Two Colombian authors, Daniel Samper Pizano and the poet John Galán Casanova, have recently published books involving wrestling. Galán has written the literary biography of the legendary champion Bill Martínez, El Tigre Colombiano (Entrena como bestia, pelea como salvaje) and he interviews him on video for this event. With a humorous tone, Samper tells of an encounter with the famous Blue Demon in La noche que humillaron a mi padre. They will talk to Primitivo Olvera and they will remember the photographer Lourdes Grobet, who passed away a few months ago, who used her camera to immortalize the surreal, colourful and whimsical world hidden behind the masks of the wrestlers.


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Event HJ16

Esther Paniagua in conversation with Nelson Jiménez

 Universidad de Cartagena, Sala de Lectura Biblioteca Fernández de Madrid (Claustro de San Agustín)
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The Internet is a powerful instrument, yet also a double-edged sword: it has opened up information that can be accessed cheaply and immediately, in an unprecedented transformation; but it is also a medium that, with the social media, has submitted many people to manipulation and addiction. Another unsettling aspect is that we can now no longer imagine a world without the Internet, a tool that just a few decades ago did not even exist. Esther Paniagua (Spain) is a writer and journalist who specializes in matters related to science and technology. Her brilliant and bold essay Error 404. ¿Preparados para un mundo sin internet? (2021), proposes a vision of what would happen if we were suddenly left without the Internet. How far are we from a life without connection to the web? Perhaps we are closer than we suspect. In conversation with the social communicator Nelson Jiménez.
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Event 70

Eliezer Budasoff and Juan Cárdenas in conversation with Silvia Viñas

Reports from Latin America

 Centro de Formación de la Cooperación Española (Salón Rey)
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Writer Juan Cárdenas (Colombia) and Eliezer Budasoff (Argentina), co-presenter and editor of the podcast El hilo, present Rabia: Crónicas contra el cinismo en Latinoamérica, an anthology that offers an X-ray of the fractures that have opened in the territories of Latin America in recent years, through a series of reports signed by Elena Reina, Estefanía Pozzo, Juan Cárdenas, Ana Teresa Toro, Carlos Manuel Álvarez, Joseph Zárate, Wilfredo Miranda and Yasna Mussa. From Puerto Rico to Peru, via Colombia, Nicaragua and Mexico, these eight elegant pieces of writing give an in-depth view of the glories and failures of Latin American society. They will be in conversation with Silvia Viñas, executive producer of El Hilo.
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Event HJ22

Esther Paniagua in conversation with Jesús Anturi

 Universidad del Norte, Barranquilla (Auditorio Marvel Moreno)
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Esther Paniagua in conversation with Nelson Jiménez

The Internet is a powerful instrument, yet also a double-edged sword: it has opened up information that can be accessed cheaply and immediately, in an unprecedented transformation; but it is also a medium that, with the social media, has submitted many people to manipulation and addiction. Another unsettling aspect is that we can now no longer imagine a world without the Internet, a tool that just a few decades ago did not even exist. Esther Paniagua (Spain) is a writer and journalist who specializes in matters related to science and technology. Her brilliant and bold essay Error 404. ¿Preparados para un mundo sin internet? (2021), proposes a vision of what would happen if we were suddenly left without the Internet. How far are we from a life without connection to the web? Perhaps we are closer than we suspect. In conversation with Jesús Anturi.
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