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Hay Festival Cartagena 2025

The twentieth edition of Hay Festival Cartagena de Indias will be held from 30 January to 2 February. In this page you can find the events in the general programme as well as Hay Festival Joven activities for university audiences, Hay Festival Comunitario sessions which took place in different areas of Cartagena, Reading Clubs and Talento Editorial.

For any inquirie, please contact tickets@hayfestival.org and contacto@hayfestival.org. Consulta el programa en PDF.

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Event HFJ12

Camila Sosa Villada in conversation with Mercedes Posada

 Universidad Tecnológica de Bolívar (sede Manga)
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Winner of the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize for Las malas, Camila Sosa Villada (Argentina) has published poetry, autobiographical essays and fiction. Her most recent book, Tesis sobre una domesticación, dissects the lives of a peaceful middle-class family, one that hides histories of violence and asphyxiation, as well as love and tenderness. The protagonist, a trans actress, finds she is trapped by marriage and social convention. Sosa Villada tells of her experiences, tinged with both passion and guilt, while also reflecting on the male and the female, family and art, maternity and class difference, subjugation and love. In conversation with Mercedes Posada.
Event free for the university community
Camila Sosa Villada in conversation with Mercedes Posada

Event 34

Txell Feixas and Laura Ortiz Gómez in conversation with Gloria Susana Esquivel

Women who take the reins

 Palacio de la Proclamación (Auditorio Juan José Nieto)
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What happens when women challenge power? In conversation with Gloria Susana Esquivel, two writers explore, through fiction and non-fiction respectively, examples of cooperation among women. Txell Feixas (Spain) has been a correspondent in the Middle East, based in Beirut, for the Corporació Catalana de Mitjans Audiovisuals and she is the author of the book Mujeres valientes, which deals with the struggles of women during the conflicts of the Middle East. She also received the 2024 National Journalism Prize for her book Aliadas. Laura Ortiz Gómez (Colombia) is the author of Indócil, a work of history that explores the “broom strike”, a popular movement that occurred in Argentina in 1907 when women, inhabitants of the conventillos of Buenos Aires, refused to pay their rent and took to the streets.

Price: $40,000.00 (COP)
Txell Feixas and Laura Ortiz Gómez in conversation with Gloria Susana Esquivel

Event 47

Justin Torres in conversation with Gloria Susana Esquivel

 Palacio de la Proclamación (Auditorio Juan José Nieto)
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Justin Torres (United States), novelist and UCLA lecturer, is a Guggenheim Foundation fellow, and won a National Book Critics Circle Award and the 2023 National Book Award for Fiction, among others, for his book Blackouts. Through stories and memories exchanged between two characters, Blackouts brings to light a hidden history and explores the gaps left by forgetting and censorship, interlacing biography, fiction and history with a biting satire, reflecting a resistance against self-censorship in queer literature. In conversation with Gloria Susana Esquivel.

Simultaneous interpretation from English to Spanish available

Price: $40,000.00 (COP)
Justin Torres in conversation with Gloria Susana Esquivel

Event HFJ19

Silvia Vásquez-Lavado in conversation with Joel Samper

 Universidad Tecnológica de Bolívar (sede Manga)
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The guest at this event is a pioneer with great achievements. She was the first Peruvian woman to reach the summit of the world’s highest mountain, Sagarmatha (Mount Everest), and to climb the six highest peaks on the other continents. She is also the first openly LGTBI+ person to reach the seven summits. Silvia Vásquez-Lavado tells her story in the book In the Shadow of the Mountain, which also deals with a past of trauma and excess, and of childhood abuse. It reveals how an ayahuasca ceremony helped her to connect to the mountains, and how she undertakes her expeditions, together with other victims of sexual abuse, as part of the Courageous Girls project, founded in 2014. She will talk to Joel Samper about her activism, her memories and about the film that is currently being made.
Event free for the university community
Silvia Vásquez-Lavado in conversation with Joel Samper

Event 59

Camila Sosa Villada in conversation with Melba Escobar

 Centro de Formación de la Cooperación Española (patio)
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Winner of the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize for Las malas, Camila Sosa Villada (Argentina) has published poetry, autobiographical essays and fiction. Her most recent book, Tesis sobre una domesticación, dissects the lives of a peaceful middle-class family, one that hides histories of violence and asphyxiation, as well as love and tenderness. The protagonist, a trans actress, finds she is trapped by marriage and social convention. Sosa Villada tells of her experiences, tinged with both passion and guilt, while also reflecting on the male and the female, family and art, maternity and class difference, subjugation and love. In conversation with Melba Escobar.
Price: $40,000.00 (COP)
Camila Sosa Villada in conversation with Melba Escobar

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