Hay Festival Medellín 2024

Booksellers of various generations will talk about their reasons for opening a bookshop, altogether a complex enterprise. Participating will be Gloria Melo (Al pie de la Letra Bookshop, Medellin), Rodnei Casares (Ítaca Bookshop, Medellin) and Paco Goyanes (Cálamo Bookshop, Zaragoza, Spain).

Since it was founded in 1969 by Jorge Herralde in Barcelona, Anagrama publishing house has been distinguished by its high quality and its Latin American commitment. Diego Aristizábal will talk about its past, present and future with Silvia Sesé, the Editorial Manager.

The award-winning journalist, writer and documentary-maker, Eliane Brum (Brazil), lives and works in Altamira, in the Amazon rainforest. She has received around 40 journalism prizes. She writes for El País newspaper and is the author of La Amazonía: viaje al centro del mundo (2024), a book that narrates her move from Sao Paulo to Altamira, a city where the construction of one of the world’s largest (and most ecologically devastating) dams is taking place. She writes about the negligence and corruption that is changing the face of the Amazon. In conversation with Carolina Sanín Acevedo.

Simultaneous translation from Portuguese to Spanish available

This celebrated Spanish author will talk to Alfonso Buitrago about his most recent books. Javier Moro, one of the bestselling Spanish-language writers, is also a journalist and has worked as a screenwriter and film producer in Hollywood. His books include Senderos de libertad (1992), El pie de Jaipur (1995), Las montañas de Buda (1997), Five Past Midnight in Bhopal (2001, a work written together with Dominique Lapierre), Passion India, The Red Sari, El imperio eres tú (2011 Planeta Prize) and, more recently Nos quieren muertos, which the author will talk about at this event. This book, which is both an exciting read and a rigorous study, is about a key figure for understanding contemporary Venezuela: Leopoldo López. Upon being jailed in 2014, after leading massive protests against the Maduro government, López became a symbol of the struggle for democracy in the country.

Irene Solà (Spain) is the author of the publishing phenomenon When I Sing, Mountains Dance (2019), written in Catalan and translated into over 20 languages, with 15 editions in circulation and winner of the 2019 Cálamo Prize and the 2020 European Prize for Fiction. In her new book, Et vaig donar ulls i vas mirar les tenebres, Solà portrays a world full of witchcraft, ghosts, beasts and demons, and a group of women gathered around the deathbed of the oldest of them. Together, they reconstruct over three hundred years of history. In conversation with Ana Cristina Restrepo.