Hay Forum Sevilla 2024

Tres Mil Viviendas, the neighbourhood with the lowest per capita income in the European Union. The children from this school, many of whom are Roma, will get to talk with the author of two works that they themselves have chosen and read beforehand. The aim of the meeting is to encourage reading, and at the same time to explore the idea that books are not only a source of escape or leisure, but that more and better reading, can lead to them improving their grades and opening doors to a better future. The José Manuel Lara Foundation pursues social transformation through reading, as it believes that a young person who reads will gain more knowledge, be more skilled in critical thinking, with greater opportunities for the future and, therefore, happier.

Redry, David Galan, teacher from Valladolid, the poet of the networks and winner of the ESPASAPOESIA 2019 award. He is the author chosen by the students of the high school IES Ramon Carande.

In the past, in the warmth of the hearthside of each village home, families would share ancestral tales in spoken form, reviving and strengthening their ties to their land. In Castilla y León, Asturias and Galicia, this tradition is called El Filandón, and it is still practised today in some villages. The distinguished writer from León, Luis Mateo Díez has nurtured this tracing of roots and attachments in a special way. Together with his fellow countrymen and writers, José María Merino and Juan Pedro Aparicio, Díez considers how El Filandón epitomises why belonging to a place can leave a powerful mark on people. Indeed, the 1984 film El Filandón brought three of his stories along with two by other authors, to the screen with Díez himself as the narrator.

Luis Mateo Díez, most recent winner of the Cervantes Prize 2023, is a member of the Real Academia Española. He is the only author in the Spanish language to have won the National Fiction Prize twice and the Critics' Prize twice, with his novels La fuente de la edad (1986) and La ruina del cielo (1999). José María Merino is also a member of the Real Academia Española. Among other awards, he has won the National Prize for Literature, the Critics' Prize (1986), the Children's and Young People's Literature Prize (1993) and the Narrative Prize (2013). He is the author of numerous novels, essays, short stories and poetry. Juan Pedro Aparicio received the Castilla y León Prize for Literature in 2012 in recognition of his career and his Retratos de Ambigú won the Nadal Prize in 1988. As well as novels, he has also written essays, journalistic articles, short stories and travel books.

The event is presented by the Sevillian poet and journalist from El Diario de Sevilla Braulio Ortiz.

Event in Spanish

A journey through the literary works of María Dueñas, one of Spain and Latin America’s best-selling authors. Cities such as Tetuán, New York and Jerez have played a vital role in her literature from her first novel El tiempo entre costuras (2009) through to Sira (2021). The characters in her stories are rooted in the spaces they inhabit, which often subtly condition their actions, decisions and what they say. Three more novels and a prodigious decade later, more than three million of her books have been sold in fifteen languages. The author is also a professor of English Literature and a researcher. She will be in conversation with Ana Gavín, Director of Editorial Relations at Grupo Planeta.

At the end of the event, the author will sign copies of her books

Event in Spanish