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Héctor Abad Faciolince, Patricia del Río and Carlos Granés in conversation with María Gracia Ríos
Homage to Mario Vargas Llosa
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Teatro Municipal
The 2025 Hay Festival Arequipa gets underway with a homage to Mario Vargas Llosa in the year of his death. The Colombians Héctor Abad Faciolince and Carlos Granés and the Peruvian journalist Patricia del Río will talk about his work and the legacy left by the city’s greatest writer. In conversation with María Gracia Ríos.
LSP Peruvian Sign Language interpretation available
Jeremías Gamboa in conversation with Juan Gabriel Vásquez
More ambitious than ever
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Teatro Municipal
With a style that is reminiscent of Miguel Gutiérrez and Leon Tolstoy, Jeremías Gamboa (Peru) has recently published El principio del mundo. Manuel, the main character, aims to find his true identity, while he travels through a Peru that is characterised by a mixture of cultures and all the contradictions this brings with it. After the success of Animales luminosos, he returns, more ambitious than ever, with a bildungsroman. In conversation with Juan Gabriel Vásquez.
LSP Peruvian Sign Language interpretation available
Pedro Cateriano in conversation with David Marcial Pérez
El País lecture: Vargas Llosa, political biography
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Teatro Municipal
Vargas Llosa, su otra gran pasión is the first political biography of Mario Vargas Llosa. Pedro Cateriano offers a detailed reconstruction of the ideological background of the Arequipan intellectual: from his Communist youth, through his rupture with the Cuban Revolution, to his transition to liberalism and failed bid for the presidency. This portrait offers a political life of one of the Spanish-speaking world’s most influential thinkers. In conversation with David Marcial Pérez.
LSP Peruvian Sign Language interpretation available
Roxana Barrantes, Luis Carranza and Pedro Francke in conversation with Fernando Carvallo
Can the free market promote social equity?
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Teatro Municipal
The polarization of Peruvian society is clear in many spheres, including the economy. Given this situation it is appropriate to wonder whether a right-wing political economy can integrate social policies for the most disadvantaged. Can social equity be promoted with free-market basis? With a general election coming next year, two former Economic ministers —Luis Carranza and Pedro Francke—, and one of the directors of the Central Reserve Bank of Peru, Roxana Barrantes, will talk about these matters together with the journalist Fernando Carvallo.
LSP Peruvian Sign Language interpretation available
Héctor Abad Faciolince in conversation with Jeremías Gamboa
Sensitivity in the face of barbarism
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Teatro Municipal
Héctor Abad Faciolince(Colombia) has been captivating readers for almost 20 years with the book Oblivion, the moving homage to his murdered father. Now his writings bring to us an even more personal event, the 2023 missile attack on a pizzeria in Kramatorsk, in the Donetsk region of the Ukraine. Abad Faciolince was unharmed, but Victoria Amelina (Ucrania), his travel companion and guide, died in the Russian attack. Ahora y en la hora is his report of the events, and a meditation on life, aging, death, war, violence and guilt. In conversatio with Jeremías Gamboa.
LSP Peruvian Sign Language interpretation available
Rodrigo Quian Quiroga in conversation with María Fernández Flecha
Understanding the brain
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Teatro Municipal
Rodrigo Quian Quiroga (Argentina) is the discoverer of “concept neurones”, sometimes known as “Grandmother cells”, which activate the recognition of specific concepts, people or images. The neuroscientist explores the human brain in Cosas que nunca creeríais. De la ciencia ficción a la neurociencia, and tells us how the human brain turns scientific advances that once seemed impossible into reality. In conversation with María Fernández Flecha.
LSP Peruvian Sign Language interpretation available
Laura G. de Rivera and Rodrigo Quian Quiroga in conversation with Layla Hirsh
Talking about artificial intelligence
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Teatro Municipal
Artificial intelligence has come into our vocabularies and our lives, and is here to stay. Yet when we talk about it, what exactly are we talking about? AI goes beyond algorithms, robotics and promises of utopian and/or dystopian futures. Laura G. de Rivera(Spain), author of Esclavos del algoritmo, and Rodrigo Quian Quiroga (Argentina), neuroscientist and the discover of “concept neurones” talk to Layla Hirsh.
LSP Peruvian Sign Language interpretation available
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Sponsored by SURA and with the support of AC/E Acción Cultural Española
Sonia Cunliffe, Enrique Planas and Zoila Vega Salvatierra with Jorge Malpartida
A salve against forgetting
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Casa Tristán del Pozo - Fundación BBVA
With its love of memory, literature can be a good remedy against forgetting. Zoila Vega Salvatierra reconstructs the history of Arequipa through the voice of six forgotten pianos in Cantan al hablar. Sonia Cunliffe traces a history of migrations, losses and grief in El tropiezo del sol, which tells the story of two women whose lives are brought together by two separate earthquakes. In El álbum de las cosas olvidadas, Enrique Planas explores the emotional links we have with the objects that time has left behind, and examines our own obsolescence. In convrsation with Jorge Malpartida.
LSP Peruvian Sign Language interpretation available
Darío Sztajnszrajber in conversation with Ana Pais
Love and philosophy
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Teatro Municipal
Darío Sztajnszrajber (Argentina) has brought philosophy to thousands of people, filling venues and appearing on television and radio. He has captivated non-specialist audiences by dealing with the big philosophical questions of history and contemporary ideas. In the eight theses of El amor es imposible, he dismantles the myth of normative romantic love. The philosopher questions ideas such as the perfect partner and invites us to rethink the notion of falling out of love as part of the desire for the impossible. In conversation with the BBC Mundo journalistAna País.
LSP Peruvian Sign Language interpretation available
The Archivo General de Indias, or Indies Archive, is one of the world’s most important documentary funds. Created in 1785 with the goal of keeping at a single site all the documents related to the Indies, it was the Spanish government’s main archive covering the New World. Its director, Esther Cruces, will talk about its history, its role in the construction of memory, and the challenges of rereading the bundles, maps, plans and documents held there. Presented by Santiago Rojas, Northern Regional Manager and Representative of CAF Peru.
LSP Peruvian Sign Language interpretation available
Guillermo Arriaga in conversation with Santiago Vanegas
The Man
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Teatro Municipal
Guillermo Arriaga (Mexico) is a master of building work through different voices. From 21 Grams, to El salvaje and Babel, his fiction is created through intertwined stories, revealing the many facets of the human identity. In El Hombre, his most recent novel, he brings this style to bear once again: six characters, speaking from different times, all related to Henry Lloyd. Human brutality, that other very Arriaga ingredient, is also present in its pages. He will talk to the BBC Mundo journalist Santiago Vanegas.
LSP Peruvian Sign Language interpretation available
Héctor Abad Faciolince and Alonso Cueto in conversation with Camila Osorio
Private diaries
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Casa Tristán del Pozo - Fundación BBVA
Although it is one of the most forgotten literary genres, the diary form is nonetheless a window onto the inner and personal world of its author. Héctor Abad Faciolince and Alonso Cueto are two examples of writers who share their privacy in this way: with Lo que fue presente. Diarios 1985-2006 in the case of the Colombian, and with the recent Los años. Diario personal, by the Peruvian author. They will talk to the El País journalist Camila Osorio.
LSP Peruvian Sign Language interpretation available
Fabian Drenkhan and Jhan Carlo Espinoza in conversation with Santiago Rojas
Climate change: water and ecosystems
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Teatro Municipal
From the ecohydrology of the Andes and the Amazon,Fabian Drenkhan and Jhan Carlo Espinoza are direct witnesses of the climate change that our planet is suffering from. The two experts will talk to Santiago Rojas, Northern Regional Manager and Representative of CAF Peru, about a reality that is becoming ever more urgent and dangerous. Climate change is not a future possibility, it is a truth that is already here.
LSP Peruvian Sign Language interpretation available
Alonso Cueto, Verónica Ramírez and Juan Gabriel Vásquez in conversation with Ainaí Morales
Homage to Mario Vargas Llosa
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Casa Tristán del Pozo - Fundación BBVA
The death of Mario Vargas Llosa in April, aged 89, has brought an irreparable loss to literature, not only the literature of Peru, but of the world. We pay homage to Arequipa’s Nobel laureate with Alonso Cueto (Peru), friend of the writer and author of Mario Vargas Llosa. Palabras en el mundo; Verónica Ramírez (Peru), who worked with Vargas Llosa for years; and Juan Gabriel Vásquez, the Colombian author who some literary critics have seen as the literary heir of the great writer. In conversation with Ainai Morales.
LSP Peruvian Sign Language interpretation available
Alonso Cueto met Mario Vargas Llosa aged three, at a Christmas Dinner organised in France by his mother. Almost seven decades later he published Mario Vargas Llosa. Palabras en el mundo, his homage to Arequipa’s Nobel prizewinner, written before the death of the famous writer on 13 April this year. More than an academic essay, this is a personal text, an ode to the work and influence of Vargas Llosa, who has become more important than ever after his passing. In conversation with Carlos Granés.
LSP Peruvian Sign Language interpretation available
Andrés Barba and Fernanda Trías in conversation with María Gracia Ríos
Cuadernos hispanoamericanos: conversations
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Casa Tristán del Pozo - Fundación BBVA
The magazine Cuadernos hispanoamericanos foments knowledge and exchange between writers of different generations and nationalities, united by a single language and a literary tradition enriched by authors of diverse origins. At this special event, Andrés Barba (Spain) and Fernanda Trías (Uruguay) will talk about her work and literary world with María Gracia Ríos.
LSP Peruvian Sign Language interpretation available
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With the support of AECID, Acción Cultural Española, AC/E and PUCP
Gustavo Rodríguez in conversation with María Luisa del Río
Heart and memory
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Teatro Municipal
Gustavo Rodríguez (Peru), Alfaguara Novel prizewinner, pays homage to his mother and grandparents in Mamita, in which family ties take us to the Amazon region in the 20th century and the social and cultural tensions of that time. A “delayed family duty”, that has become one of the most personal and reflective of this Peruvian writer’s novels. In conversation with María Luisa del Río.
LSP Peruvian Sign Language interpretation available
