Hay Festival Cartagena 2025

How can we travel towards literature from journalism? How do both fields coexist and feed each other? This workshop will explore the bond between journalism and literature through the format of journalistic books and will analyze the path towards telling true stories with literary tools, as Abraham Jiménez Enoa did in Aterrizar en el mundo, a travel writing book about the cities of the West where the author lived during his first year outside of Cuba, which won the Michael Jacobs Travel Writing Grant in 2023. In this book, the author tells the story of his arrival in Europe and the memories of his last years in Cuba, offering an intimate and critical view of Cuban reality.

Yomi Adegoke is a British writer and journalist, author of The List, winner of the Groucho Maverick and Marie Claire Future Shapers awards, and included on the Forbes 30 under 30 list. Johny Pitts (United Kingdom) is a television presenter, writer and photographer, as well as an editor at the electronic magazine Afropean.com, an essential guide for the Afro-European diaspora, and now a book: Afropean. Notes from Black Europe. In conversation with Mónica Moreno Figueroa.

Consecutive interpretation from English to Spanish available

Nikole Hannah-Jones (United States) is a journalist who specialises in racial justice, and who received the Pulitzer Prize for the 1619 Project, a collaborative effort that has also published a book and made a documentary film exploring the history of slavery in the United States. She will speak to Colombian academic Aurora Vergara about the 1619 Project and the new movements for historical reparation which are arising all over the Americas, working to recover the silenced histories of racialized groups who have been left out of official history.

Simultaneous interpretation from English to Spanish

Three authors talk to Leonard Benardo about their writing, talking about the particular perspective of their work with respect to current social questions. With Lena Khalaf Tuffaha (United States/Palestine) author of Kaan and her Sisters and Something About Living, winner of the US 2024 National Book Award, Viet Thanh Nguyen (United States), winner of the Pulitzer Prize for The Sympathizer; and Javier Zamora (El Salvador / United States), author of Solito.

Simultaneous interpretation from English to Spanish available

Colm Tóibín (Ireland) is a novelist, journalist and educator, and is one of the most influential writers in contemporary literature. Throughout his career, he has received numerous awards, including the E. M. Forster Award in 1995 and the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award for The Master (2004). His most recent work, Long Island (2024), the highly-awaited sequel to Brooklyn (2009), explores the life of Eilis Lacey two decades after her move to Long Island, dealing with the impact of the past on the present. He will talk to Charlotte Higgins.

Simultaneous interpretation from English to Spanish available

We celebrate two complementary spaces, the archive and the library, exploring experiences in different parts of the world: Polly Russell (United Kingdom) of the British Library, shares with us her experience of curating archives and exhibitions with a gender focus; and with Gustavo Ulcué Campo (Colombia), of the Nasa nation and expert in archives and heritage. In conversation with Adriana Martínez.

Simultaneous interpretation from English to Spanish available

At its book clubs, Hay Festival Cartagena offers intimate encounters with a selection of festival guests. These are spaces to talk in greater depth about recent work by some of the festival’s participants. At this event, Camila Sosa Villada (Argentina) will talk to Margarita Valencia about her book Tesis sobre una domesticación. The protagonist, a trans actress, finds she is trapped by marriage and social convention.

Those attending must have read the book