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Juan Gabriel Vásquez in conversation with Elvira Liceaga
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Teatro de la Ciudad
Juan Gabriel Vásquez is one of the most celebrated and outstanding authors in contemporary Colombian literature. At this event he will talk about his most recent book, Los nombres de Feliza, a recreation of the life of the sculptor Feliza Bursztyn, who was a freethinking artist who went beyond the limits set by the times for women like her. This rigorous novel weaves together art, history and memoir.
Eduardo Matos Moctezuma and Patricia Ledesma in conversation with Ayelén Oliva
Hay Festival Constellations: archaeology
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Cineteca Rosalío Solano
Hay Festival Constellations creates a space for intergenerational dialogue within the Mexican cultural scene, in fields such as literature, film, music, science and architecture. To understand the present, it is necessary to understand the past, and in this regard we owe to Eduardo Matos Moctezuma much of Mexico’s current identity. Together with Patricia Ledesma, this event examines that history in order to think about what has made us. The past and the present will come into dialogue here, in a conversation moderated by Ayelén Oliva.
How can we stop being macho? The journalist Nacho Lozano has written Macho menos, aimed at those men who want to deconstruct themselves, in order to open the way to new masculinities. This is a book that also incorporates women’s voices in order to shed light on some of the more questionable aspects of men’s behaviour.
LSM Mexican sign language interpretation available
Olivia Rosenthal in conversation with Javier García del Moral
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Museo de la Ciudad (espacio escénico)
Olivia Rosenthal (France) is a writer whose work fuses fiction, essay and personal testimony. For Que font les rennes après Noël?, which examines our relationship with animals and the domestication of emotional feeling, she interviewed several people who work with animals. In On n’est pas là pour disparaître, she reconstructs the case of a man suffering from Alzheimer’s who attacks his wife, and confronts us with the fragility of identity and personal links.
Simultaneous interpretation from French to Spanish available
Janet Martínez, Andrea Rizzi and John Vaillant in conversation with Francesco Manetto
The United States of the Americas
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Museo de la Ciudad (sala 2)
Mexico, the USA and Canada share more than borders: migratory policies, the climate emergency and common challenges. The relationships among the three countries have not always been stable, and according to who is in power, changes in course occur. Three experts will talk about the urgency of building bridges among the three nations: John Vaillant (USA/Canada), a witness to the ecological disaster; Andrea Rizzi (Italy), Global Affairs Correspondent for El País, and the Mexican journalist Janet Martínez. They will be joined by Francesco Manetto, journalist of El País América.
Consecutive interpretation from English to Spanish available
Daniel Mordzinski and Juan Gabriel Vásquez in conversation with Cristina Fuentes La Roche
Passion for literature
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Cineteca Rosalío Solano
Three great connoisseurs of the literary scene in Spanish talks about decades of literature and reading with the most relevant authors of this fascinating universe. Daniel Mordzinski, the "writers' photographer", who presents Vargas Llosa, el escritor y la vida, a special book about the Peruvian Nobel Prize Winner. He will also talk about this photographic exhibition that celebrates ten years of the Hay Festival Querétaro; and the Colombian writer Juan Gabriel Vásquez. In conversation with Cristina Fuentes La Roche, International Director of Hay Festival.
Carmen Aristegui and Miriam Ramírez in conversation with Daniel Pardo
Hay Festival Constellations: journalism
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Teatro de la Ciudad
Hay Festival Constellations creates a space for intergenerational dialogue within the Mexican cultural scene, in fields such as literature, film, music, science and architecture. Truth, ethics and the urge to tell us the facts are all a part of good journalism. Carmen Aristeguiand Miriam Ramírez will dialogue about the current state and value of a profession that has gone from being seen as «the Fourth Estate», to being mistrusted and even vilified by certain discourses and some sectors of society.
LSM Mexican sign language interpretation available
Michel Nieva (Argentina) is a creator of gaucho-punk, which fuses the gauchesca tradition with the cyberpunk genre. In Ciencia ficción capitalista he draws our attention to the capitalist fantasies of the technological gurus. This essay explores how the language of science fiction has been kidnapped by the neoliberal ideas of Bezos, Musk, Zuckerberg and co. In conversation with Eduardo Rabasa.
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With the support of Open Society Foundations, South to North conversations
Fernando Benavides in conversation with Paula Rosas
True crime, from podcast to novel
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Jardín Guerrero
Mix a few drops of murder, disappearance, political investigation and unsettling theories, and stir in some vigorous narrative rhythm and a great sense of story, and you have all the ingredients that have made Fausto, the true-crime podcast by Fernando Benavides (Mexico), the most listened to in Latin America. On this occasion, he presents the novel La vulnerabilidad del azar, a work written in his characteristic style: based on a real case, with multiple murders, and the resulting police investigation.
LSM Mexican sign language interpretation available
John Vaillant in conversation with Cristina Fuentes La Roche
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Museo de la Ciudad (espacio escénico)
John Vaillant (USA/Canada) won the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-fiction for Fire Weather, a book about the terrible forest fire that burned Fort McMurray, the centre of the Canadian oil industry. In this brilliant work, Vaillant argues that it was not just a fire, but a warning that we need to prepare for an ever hotter and more inflammable world. In conversation with Cristina Fuentes La Roche.
Simultaneous interpretation from English to Spanish available
Mar García Puig and Mariana Matija in conversation with Felipe Rosete
Reconnections
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Museo de la Ciudad (sala 2)
Mar García Puig (Spain) and Mariana Matija (Colombia) advocate for a reconnection with fundamental aspects of our existence, from different perspectives. In her book, Això tan tenebrós, García Puig presents an argument in favour of the complexity of metaphors and the darkness, as against the prevailing literalness and desire for purity; in her work of non-fiction Niñapájaroglaciar, Matija looks to a more aware and harmonious relationship with nature.
Gina Jaramillo and Patricia Vázquez del Mercado in conversation with Bárbara Arredondo
Universum: learn about science through play
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Patio de la Delegación del Centro Histórico
The UNAM’s Museum of Science has created Universum, a space for children to learn about science through curiosity and play. Gina Jaramillo and Patricia Vázquez del Mercado will discuss the museum’s new proposal, a pioneer in Mexico due to its accessible and inclusive approach, and because of the cooperation between the public and private sectors involved. In conversation with Bárbara Arredondo.
Elvira Sastre in conversation with Alberto Villarreal
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Tequisquiapan, Plaza principal
Elvira Sastre has managed to achieve the improbable: bring poetry to thousands of young people. Using a familiar approach and subject matter that is relevant to their lives, she has connected with various generations of readers, keeping alive the spark of literary sensitivity.
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With the support of Acción Cultural Española, AC/E
Andrés Cota Hiriart in conversation with José María Herrera Marquina
The axolotl, an emblematic creature
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Pinal de Amoles, Kiosko Municipal
There is a real-life monster that lives underwater, able to regenerate its limbs and which is always young. This is the amphibian known as the axolotl, and it is… Mexican! In this fascinating conversation together with José María Herrera Marquina, the Mexican biologist and writer Andrés Cota Hiriart will tell us anecdotes, curiosities and surprising information about this small and mysterious animal that always seems to be smiling.
In his most recent book, Goth, the legendary founding member of The Cure, Lol Tolhurst (United Kingdom) returns to his origins: the music scene of the late 70s and early 80s, years when new bands were arriving: Siouxsie and the Banshees, Bauhaus, Joy Division and, of course, The Cure. This work records the channelling of a force that goes beyond music: a community, a feeling of belonging, and something that meant the shadows and darkness –and those basslines– became a light that drew people together.
Simultaneous interpretation from English to Spanish available
Pedro Baños (Spain), a reserve colonel and geopolitical analyst, is one of the most influential thinkers on strategy and international relations in the Spanish-speaking world. In his latest book, Geohispanidad, he considers a geopolitical strategy to unite Spanish-speaking countries and strengthen their global influence. He will talk to Javier Solórzano about the new alliances that are being forged, and they geopolitical map that is taking shape today.
Mardonio Carballo and Alejandra Sasil Sánchez Chan in conversation with Rafael Volta
Hay Festival Constellations: poetry
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Museo de la Ciudad (sala 2)
Hay Festival Constellations creates a space for intergenerational dialogue within the Mexican cultural scene, in fields such as literature, film, music, science and architecture. At this event, Mardonio Carballo and Alejandra Sasil Sánchez Chan will talk to Rafael Volta about the power and value of poetry: or when language is a weapon that can fight for existing and resisting.
Deborah Levy and Rebecca Makkai in conversation with Gaby Wood
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Museo de la Ciudad (espacio escénico)
Two award-winning writers share the floor with Gaby Wood. The two-time Booker prize shortlisted, Deborah Levy (United Kingdom), returns with a novel about her own life: August Blue, which is a revision of her old stories and a renewal of her identity in a dazzling portrait of a transformation. Rebecca Makkai (USA), shortlisted for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, presents I Have Some Questions for You, a true crime story that hones in on the grey areas of truth, memory and collective responsibility.
Simultaneous interpretation from English to Spanish available
Yadira González, Alma Delia Murillo and Mirna Nereida in conversation with Héctor Guerrero
Disappeared in Mexico
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Patio de la Delegación del Centro Histórico
In a country that, unfortunately, has become used to horrors, the discoveries at the Izaguirre Ranch, in Teuchitlán, were on such a scale that they have shaken the country. It has also served to bring back into the spotlight one of Mexico’s most painful realities: forced disappearances; and to place value on a group of brave women, the Madres Buscadoras. Guests are Mirna Nereida, founder of the Las Rastreadoras de El Fuerte; Yadira González, a rastreadora who discovered the Tepeji del Río mass grave; and Alma Delia Murillo, a fiction writer who has written about the strength and grief of these mothers in Raíz que no desaparece.
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With the support of Open Society Foundations, South to North conversations
Faced with an autobiographical book called La mujer incierta, it might be thought that it deals with an amalgam of uncertainties. Yet, in reality, the Colombian poet, fiction writer and essayist, Piedad Bonnett, takes her own experiences as a starting point to tackle the times she has lived through, and reading it we can know a bit about the many women she has been; all written in a prose that is poetic, sensitive and emphatic.
