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Javier Moro in conversation with Giovanni Barletti
They want us dead
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Auditorio del Centro Cultural Santo Domingo
The acclaimed Spanish writer will talk con local about his most recent books. The writer and journalist Javier Moro has worked as a scriptwriter and film producer in Hollywood. His books include Senderos de libertad (1992), El pie de Jaipur (1995), The Mountains of the Buddha (2009), Five Past Midnight in Bhopal (2002, written with Dominique Lapierre), Passion India (2007), The Red Sari (2015), El imperio eres tú (2011 Planeta Prize) and the recent Nos quieren muertos, which he will talk about at this event. This rigorous, frenetic work portrays the life of a figure who is central to understanding Venezuela today: Leopoldo López. In conversation withGiovanni Barletti.
Fabiola Hablützel in conversation with Julia Ponce
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Universidad Continental
Fabiola Hablützel presents La hermana del medio,a moving story about the importance of family and our place in the world. With her fiftieth birthday approaching, her mother reveals a secret that has been kept from her all her life, that Fabiola was adopted. The impact of the news leads the author to undertake a journey of self-discovery, from the streets of Callao to Santiago de Chile and Buenos Aires, Argentina. In conversation with Julia Ponce.
Giacomo Roncagliolo in conversation with Jorge Malpartida
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Establecimiento penitenciario de varones de Arequipa
The author and musician Giacomo Roncagliolo (Peru) published stories and poems in the former fanzine Morfina between 2011 and 2013. In 2017 he was shortlisted for the Clarín Novel Prize for his book Ámok. His recent novel, El fantástico sueño de aniquilar esto, is a disturbing thriller that explores the addictive power of virtual sexuality and its sinister influence on contemporary desire. In conversation with Jorge Malpartida.
Hamja Ahsan, Agustina Bazterrica, Ekaitz Cancela and Juan Manuel Robles in conversation with Karima Ziali
New narrative paradigms
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Teatro Municipal
Official narrative, non-hegemonic narratives. How do the guests at this event position themselves? We talk to Hamja Ahsan(United Kingdom), Agustina Bazterrica(Argentina), Ekaitz Cancela (Spain) and Juan Manuel Robles(Peru) about their ways of narrating, and their choices when it comes to telling stories and representing reality. In conversation with Karima Ziali.
Simultaneous translation from English to Spanish available
Price: S/15.00 (PEN)
With the support of British Council and Casa Árabe
Guillermo Niño de Guzmán in conversation with Dante Trujillo
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Centro Cultural Peruano Norteamericano (auditorio)
Guillermo Niño de Guzmán is a writer, publisher, translator and screenwriter. He studied Literature at the Universidad Católica and in 1984 published his first book of short stories, Caballos de medianoche,with an introduction by Mario Vargas Llosa. Since then he has published short stories, essays and historical novels for young adults. His most recent work is Mis vicios impunes: Cuaderno de letraherido II, a personal and literary almanac that unites brief texts on art and the writing trade with his adventures as a reader, film buff and jazz fan. The author will talk to the writer and publisher Dante Trujillo.
Fabiola Hablützel and María Larrea in conversation with Clara Elvira Ospina
Literary families
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Colegio de Abogados (auditorio)
Two authors examine, through their work, the meaning of family and identity as linked to origins and nationality. Fabiola Hablützel(Peru/Chile) presents La hermana del medio,a moving story about the importance of family and our place in the world. With her fiftieth birthday approaching, her mother reveals a secret that had been kept from her all her life, that Fabiola was adopted. The impact of the news leads the author to undertake a journey of self-discovery, from the streets of Callao to Santiago de Chile and Buenos Aires, Argentina. The director, screenwriter and novelist María Larrea(Spain/France) was born in Bilbao (Spain) and grew up in Paris, where she studied film at La Fémis. She presents her first novel, Los de Bilbao nacen donde quieren, in which Larrea tells the story, backwards, of a complicated family history, with illegal adoptions in the dying days of the Franco dictatorship. In conversation with Clara Elvira Ospina.
Price: S/10.00 (PEN)
With the support of Acción Cultural Española, AC/E
María José Caro and Susanne Noltenius in conversation with Enrique Planas
Natural histories
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Teatro Arequepay
Two Peruvian writers talk to Enrique Planas about their latest books, in which nature and human emotions play major roles. The writer and social communicator María José Caro was included on the Hay Festival 2017 list of the 39 best Latin American fiction writers aged under 40. Her most recent work, Vida animal, tells the story of four friends on a hen night in Chosica, in which the author uses references to the animal world in order to guide us around the complexity of the human relationships. Susanne Noltenius, an outstanding Peruvian writer of German origin, is a graduate of the School of Creative Writing run by Alonso Cueto and Iván Thays, and has published successful works including Crisis respiratoria and Tres mujeres (2017 National Literature Prize in the Short Story category) and a number of books for children. Her latest book, Se hace otoño, tells the story of a woman who, under stress due to the political changes in her country and a difficult family history, seeks a new life in Germany, surrounded by nature and aiming to find emotional stability.
Hari Kunzru, Jonathan Castro and Karima Ziali in conversation with Karen Bernedo
Equalities: Who tells our story?
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Centro Cultural Peruano Norteamericano (teatro)
We talk about our challenges as global societies from non-hegemonic perspectives. Hari Kunzru, a graduate of Oxford University with a Master’s degree in Philosophy and Literature from the University of Warwick, has been a member of the executive board of the English PEN and named by Granta as one of the "best young British novelists"; he has also won various awards, such as the Observer Young Travel Writer of the Year and a British Book Award. In May this year he published his new book, Blue Ruin. Jonathan Castro (Peru) is a political and investigative journalist who works for the La Encerrona outlet. Karima Ziali is a Spanish writer and researcher of Moroccan origin. She has a degree in Philosophy, a Master’s in Anthropological Research and a doctorate in Migratory Studies. Her first novel is entitled Una oración sin dios. In conversation with Karen Bernedo.
Simultaneous translation from English to Spanish available
Price: S/15.00 (PEN)
With the support of the British Council and Accion Cultural Española, AC/E
Gemma Ruiz Palà, Julio Villanueva Chang and Iban Zaldua in conversation with Felipe Restrepo Pombo
On magazines
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Centro Cultural Peruano Norteamericano (auditorio)
Magazines which include long-running reports, magazines that support the use of a minority language, magazines that act as platforms for new writers. With the journalist and writer Gemma Ruiz Palà (Spain); Julio Villanueva Chang, founding editor of the magazine Etiqueta negra;and Iban Zaldua, who was a member of the team which published the magazine of literary activism Volgako Batelariak.In conversation with Felipe Restrepo Pombo, writer, journalist and former editor of Gatopardo magazine.
Price: S/10.00 (PEN)
With the support of the Instituto Ramón Llull and the Instituto Etxepare
Martha Canfield, Sharon Lerner, Guillermo Niño de Guzmán and Renato Sandoval in conversation with Hernando Torres-Fernández
Sketches of Jorge Eielson
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Teatro Arequepay
A hundred years after the birth of Jorge Eielson (Lima 1924- Milan 2006), five figures from the literary and cultural spheres will talk about this brilliant Peruvian poet and artist, who lived for much of his life in Italy. Martha Canfield, an Italian-Colombian poet and lecturer in Literature, is the Director of Florence University’s Jorge Eielson Studies Centre, where she teaches. Sharon Lerner is the Director of MALI and curated the first retrospective exhibition of Eielson’s work in Peru. The writer, literary critic and essayist Renato Sandoval, the writer Guillermo Niño de Guzmán, and the diplomat Hernando Torres-Fernández have all known the famous author and artist. Together, they will tell personal anecdotes and talk about his extensive body of work, bringing us the creative world of this extraordinary poet and visual artist.
Patricia del Río and Patricia Villanueva in conversation with Augusto Carrasco
Literature for girls and boys, ¿A mini-Boom in Peru?
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Centro Cultural Peruano Norteamericano (auditorio)
We are witnessing that, recently, lots of very interesting children's literature books are being published by authors who previously only explored adult narratives... Is publishing for children profitable? How do we approach the editing of children's literature, and who is involved? What can we observe in other countries with important children's book markets? How are informative or educational books for children created? With Patricia del Río, linguist and journalist, author of Desde la Luna,her first work for children; and Patricia Villanueva, visual artist, curator and educator; co-author of Grandes culturas milenarias,a history of the cultures that came before the Inca Empire. In conversation with Augusto Carrasco, designer, editor, and curator of the children’s project Héroes y heroínas de la peruanidad. 200 historias para celebrar el bicentenario.
Irene Vallejo in conversation with Patricia del Río
The invention of books
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Teatro Municipal
Irene Vallejo (Spain) is the author of one of the most read Spanish-language non-fiction books in recent years, Papyrus: The Invention of Books in the Ancient World, published in 40 countries and selling over half a million copies. The work has been a publishing phenomenon and has received prestigious awards, including the 2020 National Prize for Non-fiction in Spain. This writer, academic and author of a lucid opinion column for El País newspaper, is one of the most followed intellectuals in the Spanish-speaking world. In conversation with Patricia del Río, she will talk about her love for the world of books, libraries, and the essential role of reading in education.
Agustina Bazterrica and Hari Kunzru in conversation with Matías Zibell
Literary pairs
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Centro Cultural Peruano Norteamericano (teatro)
As part of the Literary Pairs series run by Hay Festival and the British Council, and an event that will be repeated at the Hay-on-Wye Festival in 2025, the BBC Mundo journalist Matías Zibell will talk to Agustina Bazterrica and Hari Kunzru. Agustina Bazterrica (Argentina) is a writer and cultural manager; as well as short story collections, she has published Tender Is the Flesh, translated into 25 languages, and the novel that she presents here: The Unworthy, a disturbing dystopian book that deals with the matter of friendship. The writer Hari Kunzru (United Kingdom), who has contributed to media outlets such as The New York Times, The Guardian and Wired, has been a fellow of the Guggenheim Foundation, the New York Public Library and the American Academy in Berlin. His novels have won a range of prestigious prizes and have been translated into over 20 languages. He presents Red Pill, a novel about the far right, online culture, creativity, sanity and history.
With simultaneous interpretation from English to Spanish
Gabriela Wiener in conversation with Liliana Colanzi, with the participation of Renata Flores
South to south
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Colegio de Abogados (auditorio)
The acclaimed and award-winning writer and journalist Gabriela Wiener will talk to Liliana Colanzi about her most recent novel. Wiener is the author of books such as Sexographies, Nine Moons, Llamada perdida, Dicen de mí and Undiscovered. Her new book, Atusparia, presents us with the story of a left-wing politician, a victim of lawfare, imprisoned in a high-security jail in the Amazon rainforest. There, capitalism launches an attack on her ideals, submerging her in a whirlwind of drugs and sex that leads her to undertake an introspective journey to Lake Titicaca, in imitation of her childhood hero. This posindigenista novel exposes hierarchies and power struggles as the forces that undermine the emancipatory movements. With the participation of the musician Renata Flores, famous for fusing Andean music with trap, hip-hop and pop styles, and for writing lyrics in Quechua.
Daniel Mordzinski and Irene Vallejo in conversation with Jeremías Gamboa
Literature in images
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Teatro Municipal
Hay Festival Arequipa offers the world premiere of an exceptional visual and narrative experience. A stage, a screen, a master of ceremonies, the storyteller Jeremías Gamboa, and two improvisers: writer Irene Vallejo, author of Papyrus: The Invention of Books in the Ancient World, and the writer’s photographer, Daniel Mordzinski. “Literature in Images” is a conversation, a dialogue between portraits and stories that aims to share readings, anecdotes, and stories about Latin American literature. It is an invitation to use the imagination and explore the links between literature and photography. A unique performance inspired by jazz improvisation.
Jean-Baptiste Del Amo in conversation with Felipe Restrepo Pombo
The Son of Man
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Centro Cultural Peruano Norteamericano (teatro)
The transmission of violence and trauma from one generation to the next is the foundation for the latest novel by the French writer Jean-Baptiste Del Amo. The Son of Man is the story of a man who returns to his partner and son after a long absence, and takes them to live in a remote place in the mountains, just as his own father had done with him. Soon the mother and child feel oppressed by the control of a man tormented by his own relation with his father before him. In conversation with Felipe Restrepo Pombo.
Simultaneous interpretation from French to Spanish available
Carlos Bardem and Hugo Coya in conversation with Teresa Ruiz-Rosas
Cuadernos hispanoamericanos
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Colegio de Abogados (auditorio)
Cuadernos hispanoamericanos aims to promote knowledge and exchange between writers of different generations and nationalities, united by a single language and literary tradition, enriched by authors of diverse origins. At this event, Carlos Bardem, a well-known Spanish actor and writer, presents his latest book, Badaq, transporting us to 1583 where, through the eyes of a rhinoceros carried to Madrid as a gift for King Phillip II, the novel criticises the exploitation and corruption of the Spanish Empire. Also with Hugo Coya (Peru), the renowned journalist, television producer, university lecturer and public speaker, who presents El espía continental, a kind of spin-off of El último en la torre (2022) which explores the political turmoil of 1930 in Mexico and the life of Jacobo Hurwitz, an enigmatic spy who had Peruvian and Jewish roots. Both authors, known for their literary skills and for their contributions to historical understanding and reflection through fiction, will talk to Teresa Ruiz Rosas about the colonial past.
Philippe Sands (United Kingdom) is a well-known human rights lawyer and author of acclaimed works such as East West Street and The Ratline, and at this event he will talk to Felipe Gálvez about his most recent book, The Last Colony. Sands tells the painful story of the forced displacement of Liseby Elysé and other inhabitants of the Chagos archipelago in 1973, due to the strategic interests of the Cold War. Displaced to Mauritius in order to make room for a US military base, this book condemns British colonial injustice and its effects. With a story that includes history, essay and personal drama, Sands reveals the human tragedies behind the great historical events, underlining the need for justice and reparation, exploring the recent history of Chile and taking as a point of departure the lives and works of iconic figures such as Bruce Chatwin, Roberto Bolaño and the dictator Augusto Pinochet.
Simultaneous translation from English to Spanish available
Andrea Ortiz de Zevallos and Teresa Ruiz Rosas in conversation with Jorge Malpartida Tabuchi
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Centro Cultural Peruano Norteamericano (auditorio)
Two well-known writers talk about their work with Jorge Malpartida Tabuchi. With Andrea Ortiz de Zevallos (Peru), who presents her novel Madre de Dios, an ecothriller set in the region of the same name, which reflects on the nature of ecocide; and the Arequipa writer and translator Teresa Ruiz Rosas, finalist for the prestigious Herralde Novel Prize in 1994 for El copista, a landmark work of contemporary Peruvian literature, which has been republished this year.
Price: S/10.00 (PEN)
Sponsored by the Instituto Cultural Peruano Alemán
Edmundo Paz Soldán and Giacomo Roncagliolo in conversation with Patricia del Río
Literary dystopias
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Centro Cultural Peruano Norteamericano (auditorio)
Two authors will talk about literature and dystopias with Patricia del Río. Edmundo Paz Soldán (Bolivia), an award-winning writer and academic, presents Área protegida, a dark novel about seeking for unexpected solutions, political polarisation, and the disasters that are awaiting Earth. The author and musician Giacomo Roncagliolo(Peru) published stories and poems in the fanzine Morfina between 2011 and 2013. In 2017 he was shortlisted for the Clarín Novel Prize for Ámok. His recent novel, El fantástico sueño de aniquilar esto, is a disturbing thriller that explores the addictive power of virtual sexuality and its sinister influence on contemporary desire.
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Karina Pacheco in conversation with Verónica Ramírez
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Centro Cultural Peruano Norteamericano (teatro)
Karina Pacheco(Peru) presents her new book, Niños del pájaro azul, in conversation with Verónica Ramírez. Pacheco is a writer, anthropologist and publisher, and has written acclaimed books such as La voluntad del molle. As well as an author of short stories, she runs Ceques Editores, an independent publishing company that specializes in literature, history and anthropology and, in the year 2022 she won the National Literature Prize. The stories from this book take place in villages in the Amazon region, the mountains, or beautiful islands, all beset by corruption, the devastation of nature, or unresolved conflicts from the past, and all of them are filled with the questions of many children, or by the memory of their songs.
Rocío Silva Santisteban and Iban Zaldua in conversation with Jorge Malpartida Tabuchi
The art of the story
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Teatro Arequepay
We talk to two eminent writers. Rocío Silva Santisteban, Peruvian writer, poet, academic and former member of parliament, is also a researcher and Executive Secretary of the National Department for Human Rights. She has written poems and short stories, published in books such as Me perturbas and Reina del manicomio. She now presents El Quemadero. Cuentos reunidos, a compilation of short stories. The writer and historian Iban Zaldua (Basque Country, Spain) present A escondidas, a revised and enriched version of stories originally published in Inon ez, inoiz ez (2014). This new collection, translated by the author from Basque into Spanish, mingles the fantastic and the real to explore human contradictions and subvert reality, deconstructing it and tackling themes such as humour, climate change and artificial intelligence. They will talk to the writer and journalist Jorge Malpartida Tabuchi, author of the short story collection Contra toda autoridad, excepto…
Natalia Sobrevilla and Irene Vallejo in conversation with Magally Alegre Henderson
Societies of the archive
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Casa Tristán del Pozo - Fundación BBVA
Historical archives are sources of an incalculable value for understanding the past, present and future of nations. Natalia Sobrevillais a historian, researcher and lecturer in the History of Latin America at the University of Kent (United Kingdom), and is also the author of Independence and Nation Building in Latin America. In the context of the crisis affecting the National General Archive, we want to highlight the importance of protecting this legacy, which belongs to all citizens. In her contemporary classic,Papyrus: The Invention of Books in the Ancient World, Irene Vallejo explores the development of the book and libraries in the ancient world, and how they became effective ways for transmitting and preserving ideas, while also pointing out that “a dislike of books is a tradition with strong roots in our history”. In conversation with the Head of the Riva-Agüero Institute’s Historical Archive, Magally Alegre Henderson.
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With the support of the Eccles Institute for the Americas
Abdulrazak Gurnah in conversation with Philippe Sands
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Teatro Municipal
The British novelist and academic, of Tanzanian origin, Abdulrazak Gurnah, winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize for Literature and shortlisted for the Booker Prize, is celebrated for his skills in examining the human condition, linking matters such as exile, migration, identity, colonialism and the destiny of refugees among cultures and continents. In conversation with Philippe Sands.
Simultaneous translation from English to Spanish available
Gemma Ruiz Palà and Clare Pollard in conversation with Elisa Guerra
Always the family
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Centro Cultural Peruano Norteamericano (teatro)
Gemma Ruiz i Palà (Spain) is a writer and journalist. In her book Les nostres mares, she pays homage to various generations of women in a Catalan family. With its intimate, emotional plot, the book tells of the struggles, sacrifices and strength of mothers and grandmothers, exploring their crucial role in the creation of family identity and Catalan society. Clare Pollard (United Kingdom) is a poet, fiction writer, translator and dramatist, author of various books of poetry. Her first novel is Delphi,a story that occurs in a London flat, where a woman who lives with her husband and ten-year-old son sees how the world is coming apart: the arrival of Trump, the occurrence of Brexit and a virus that spreads around the world, causing mayhem and forcing a lockdown. These two authors will talk to Elisa Guerra.
Simultaneous translation from English to Spanish available
Price: S/15.00 (PEN)
With the support of British Council and Instituto Ramón Llull
Liliana Colanzi in conversation with Verónica Ramírez
You shine in the dark
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Colegio de Abogados (auditorio)
Liliana Colanzi (Bolivia) won the 2015 Aura Estrada Prize and in 2017 she was selected for the Bogotá39 list of the 39 best Latin American fiction writers aged under 40. She has a publishing project in Bolivia called Dum Dum and she is the author of the books of short stories Vacaciones permanentes and Nuestro mundo muerto. Her latest book is Ustedes brillan en lo oscuro (Ribera del Duero Prize),a collection of short stories that explore the narrative through time and space of the exuberant historical and geographical riches of Latin America. She has a doctorate in Comparative Literature from Cornell University, where she currently lectures. In conversation with Verónica Ramírez.
No figure has had more impact on Peruvian popular culture than Lorenzo Palacios Quispe, known as “Chacalón”. A musical idol, hero of the working class, saint and prophet of the dispossessed, his memory has attained legendary stature in a country constantly struggling against despair and injustice. Papá Huayco is a novel portraying the life of Chacalón through a range of voices that speak through a poetic register and the language of the street, telling a story which is also that of so many thousands of Peruvians, who came to Lima in the last half of the 20th century. Alfredo Villar is a curator, art historian, music researcher, writer and DJ, and he has recently published the widest-ranging study carried out into Peruvian Cumbia: Yawar chicha: los ríos profundos de la música tropical peruana. In conversation with Karen Bernedo.
Ekaitz Cancela and Hamja Ahsan in conversation with Giacomo Roncagliolo
On utopias
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Centro Cultural Peruano Norteamericano (teatro)
We talk about utopias with two contemporary thinkers who also reflect on technology. Ekaitz Cancela Rodríguez (Spain), author of Utopías digitales, is a journalist, editor of The Syllabus, publishes articles in El Salto, and is one of the founders and managers of Radical Books, the cooperative that publishes Verso Libros and Manifest Llibres. In Tímidos radicales, the artist and activist Hamja Ahsan (United Kingdom) proposes a utopia: a state for calm, introverted people on the autism spectrum, whose national anthem is the sound of a sea snail, and where the wealth of contemplation, reflective solitude and intimate company is celebrated. In conversation with Giacomo Roncagliolo.
Simultaneous translation from English to Spanish available
Price: S/15.00 (PEN)
With the support of British Council and Acción Cultural Española, AC/E
Pablo Cateriano y Gonzalo Zegarra in conversation with Mabel Cáceres
Communication and technology
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Casa Tristán del Pozo - Fundación BBVA
Companies which use social media services such as TikTok; media outlets that offer versions of their news on the Internet; polarization and the goal of positioning ideas; we talk to two experts in communication, social media, democracy and politics. Pablo Cateriano(Peru), Communication graduate, journalist and CEO of Métrica, is the author of El arte de ser y parecer: Cómo construir y cuidar la reputación empresarial, a guide about the importance of reputation and public relations in corporate communication, based on his vast experience and with reference to successful cases. Gonzalo Zegarra(Peru) is a lawyer, former editor of Semana Económica and member of prominent press boards. In his book La democracia del click y del TikTok he covers the challenges of social media to politics, highlighting both their capacity to democratise public voices as well as their potential for creating intolerance and polarisation. These two experts will talk to Mabel Cáceres.
Javier Moro in conversation with Clara Elvira Ospina
They want us dead
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Teatro Municipal
The acclaimed Spanish writer will talk to Clara Elvira Ospina about his most recent books. Javier Moro, one of the most read contemporary Spanish-language writers, is also a journalist and has worked as a scriptwriter and film producer in Hollywood. His books include Senderos de libertad (1992), El pie de Jaipur (1995), The Mountains of the Buddha (2009), Five Past Midnight in Bhopal (2002, written with Dominique Lapierre), Passion India (2007), The Red Sari (2015), El imperio eres tú (2011 Planeta Prize) and the recent Nos quieren muertos, which he will talk about at this event. This rigorous, frenetic work portrays the life of a figure who is central to understanding Venezuela today: Leopoldo López, who, after being jailed in 2014 because of his leading role in the mass protests against the Nicolás Maduro government, became a symbol for the struggle for democracy in the country.
Randa Jarrar, Hari Kunzru and Karima Ziali in conversation with Karina Pacheco
Identity and diaspora in literature
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Centro Cultural Peruano Norteamericano (teatro)
Literary figures who question their own identity, or who seek their own space. The reality of migration, exile and the diaspora are great parts of life and great themes in literature. Karina Pachecotalks to the Palestinian-US writer Randa Jarrar, the Moroccan-Spanish writer Karima Ziali and the British writer with a partly Indian background, Hari Kunzru, about their works, their literary explorations and how these themes of displacement, migration and diaspora have affected their literature.
Price: S/10.00 (PEN)
With the support of British Council, Acción Cultural Española, AC/E and Casa Árabe
Jeremías Gamboa, Daniel Mordzinski, Karina Pacheco and Clara Elvira Ospina in conversation with Dante Trujillo
Ten years of the Hay Festival Arequipa through its conversations
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Casa Tristán del Pozo - Fundación BBVA
We celebrate ten years of the Hay Festival in Peru with the publication of a commemorative book, which compiles 15 memorable conversations that captured the interest of the public as part of the festival. We talk to the book’s editor, Dante Trujillo(Perú), the author Jeremías Gamboa (Perú), the photographer Daniel Mordzinski (Argentina), the author Karina Pacheco (Perú) and the journalist Clara Elvira Ospina (Colombia) about the positive and inspiring effects of the conversations that the Hay Festival Arequipa has made possible in the decade it has been running. Introduced by Cristina Fuentes La Roche.
At this workshop, led by Raúl Chuquimia, we give life to our characters through the creation of a handmade tale, using recycled materials like cardboard and paper. We learn to design and bind our own stories, giving space to ecological considerations through creative recycling.
Family event
Free event until full capacity is reached
With the support of la Municipalidad Provincial de Arequipa
Catherine Bréchignac in conversation with Nelson Vallejo-Gómez
From truth to post-truth, between reality and fiction
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Teatro Arequepay
Post-truth creates a tension between belief and truth. How has truth become an object of power? What is the relationship between science, politics and morality when the truth is in play? Why does the truth appear fragile faced with the manipulative powers of post-truth? Catherine Bréchignac (France), a physicist by training, has been President of the French National Research Centre and the Secretary in Perpetuity of the French Academy of Sciences. Through her work, and in a scientific way, she has worked to counter the psychological and sociological biases that favour obscurantism and ideological radicalisms, as well as negative interpretations of scientific progress. In conversation with the Colombian-French philosopher, Nelson Vallejo-Gómez.
Simultaneous interpretation from French to Spanish available
Price: S/15.00 (PEN)
With the support of the French Embassy in Peru, Alianza Francesa de Lima y Arequipa, Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme (FMSH-Paris), Académie des Sciences de France, CLEMI-Canopé, MENJ
