Hay Festival Cartagena 2024

Hay Festival Cartagena de Indias 2024 was held from 25 to 28 January. In this page you can find the events in the general programme as well as Hay Joven activities for university audiences, Hay Comunitario sessions which took place in different areas of Cartagena, Reading Clubs and Talento Editorial.

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Event 40

Cristina Bendek and Carlos Granés in conversation with Cristina Fuentes La Roche

Other histories from the Archivo de Indias

Saturday 31 January 2026, 10am – 11am COT Centro de Formación de la Cooperación Española (Patio)

Otras historias del Archivo de Indias, edited by Erna von der Walde, is an anthology compiling texts by ten recognised Ibero-American authors, who have created short stories based on documents preserved in the Archivo General de Indias. This Hay Festival and CAF project aims to make public some of the archives’ huge store of documents, rescuing some of the many stories, from a great variety of voices, recorded there. Two of the writers participating in the initiative, the Colombians Cristina Bendek and Carlos Granés, will discuss the anthology with Cristina Fuentes La Roche, International Director of the Hay Festival. The book will be published in September 2026.

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.

Price: $40,000.00 (COP)