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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
Screening of the documentary '20 años del Hay Festival en Colombia'
Presented by Cristina Fuentes La Roche
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Centro Cultural Peruano Norteamericano (teatro)
20 years of the Hay Festival in Colombia condensed into a one-hour documentary. Through the voices of some of the most outstanding figures who have participated in the festival, the public can see some of the secrets behind the scenes of the Hay Festival in Colombia. Presented by Cristina Fuentes La Roche.
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Establecimiento penitenciario de hombres de Arequipa
Since 2019, the Hay Festival Arequipa has been running sessions in men’s and women’s prisons in Arequipa with the aim of fulfilling its goal of reaching the most vulnerable sections of the community. This year, the Peruvian writer, Enmanuel Grau, will talk about his book of short stories El fin de los tiempos, which relates the experiences of marginal, and marginalised, characters who have been powerfully marked by a failed system. He will talk to Raúl Romero, reading mediator of La Bibliobici de Arequipa.
Alexandra Pareja and Olenka Soto Cárdenas in conversation with Ruhuan Huarca Llamoca
Publishing Talent: publishing
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Teatro Arequepay
We talk about the publishing trade with two publishers from independent companies: Alexandra Pareja (Colombia), co-founder of Angosta Editores, and Olenka Soto Cárdenas (Peru), editorial director of El Pasto Verde Records and part of the editorial board of Leche de Trigre and Nuveliel, will talk about the challenges of the job with Ruhuan Huarca Llamoca.
Alexandra Pareja in conversation with Jullisa del Pilar Falla Aguirre
Publishing funds
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Universidad Continental (auditorio)
Building an independent publishing house is like jumping into the void without knowing if there is a safety net. When she co-founded Angosta Editores with Héctor Abad Faciolince, Alexandra Pareja found many readers that supported an artisanal care for design, a curated selection that gave space to a diversity of literary genres, and an open door for emerging writers. Angosta Editores has turned into a success story, and its shelves include relevant authors such as Esteban Duperly, Orlando Echeverri Benedetti or Sara Jaramillo Klinkert. In conversation with the coordinator of the Editorial Collection of the Continental University Jullisa del Pilar Falla Aguirre.
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
Patricia del Río and Fernanda Trías in conversation with Dante Trujillo
Inhabiting the wild
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Centro Cultural Peruano Norteamericano (auditorio)
A mountainside, in the novel by Fernanda Trías (Uruguay), and an Andean village, in the novel by Patricia del Río (Peru), are the settings for El monte de las furias and Jauría respectively. Two places for a discussion of the wild, and memory. The first is narrated by a woman in whose garden dead bodies begin to appear. The second is told from the point of view of the ten dogs who have become the guardians of the memory of the village’s last inhabitant. In conversation with Dante Trujillo.
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
Alberto Fuguet in conversation with Enrique Planas
Fuguet: yesterday and today
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Centro Cultural Peruano Norteamericano (auditorio)
It is a great time to read Alberto Fuguet. Missing, his fifth novel, mingles fiction and reality in order to talk about the disappearance of his uncle. It is the third Fuguet book to be republished this year, after Aeropuertos and No ficción. What is more, the Chilean writer published Ciertos chicos last year, a coming of age novel about two teenagers, Tomás y Clemente, in 1986, during the Chilean dictatorship. In conversation with Enrique Planas.
Alejandra Moffat (Chile) is a natural when it comes to telling stories, whether as novels, tales or for the screen, and this is clear from her many successful screenplays for fiction, animation and documentary film. The young people who attend the workshop will learn basic notions when it comes to expressing their ideas in the outline of a script: from developing the plot to profiling the characters, and setting out the progression of the action.
The Hay Festival reading club comes to Arequipa lead by Omar Zevallos presenting Andrés Barba (Spain) and his novel Auge y caída del conejo Bam. This animal fable, featuring a rabbit protagonist, is a tale about social manipulation, ideals and lies, fear and violence.
Reading club with Alejandra Moffat and Omar Zevallos
Mambo
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Instituto Cultural Peruano Alemán
The Hay Festival reading club comes to Arequipa lead by Omar Zevallos presenting Alejandra Moffat (Chile) and her novel Mambo, a novel that represents the Chilean wave known as “literature of the children of the dictatorship”. The book’s protagonist, Ana, is a girl who has grown up through the clandestine years of the 1980s. She and her sister Julia, in all their innocence, recreate a childhood even in the midst of violence.
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
Pilar Quintana in conversation with Clara Elvira Ospina
Black Night
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Colegio de Arquitectos (auditorio)
In Noche negra, Pilar Quintana (Colombia) returns to the untamed and exuberant Colombian Pacific that she portrayed so convincingly in the acclaimed novel La perra. In her latest book, the protagonist finds herself alone for four days in a setting that is both terrifying and fascinating. She feels threatened not only by nature, but by the people around her. As well as her work as a writer, Quintana has recently edited the second issue of the Biblioteca de Escritoras Colombianas. In conversation with Clara Elvira Ospina.
Juan Gabriel Vásquez in conversation with Patricia del Río
Feliza Bursztyn: a woman ahead of her time
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Centro Cultural Peruano Norteamericano (auditorio)
Juan Gabriel Vásquez is one of the most celebrated and interesting authors of 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, an artist who broke the rules imposed on women by her times. This is a rigorous novel that weaves together art, history and biography. In conversation with Patricia del Río.
María Luisa del Río and Olga Montero Rose in conversation with Clara Elvira Ospina
In private
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Teatro Arequepay
Se busca final feliz,by María Luisa del Río, and Culpa,by Olga Montero Rose, are two intimate, sensitive, tender books with women as the protagonists. The first is a book of stories in which the reader watches María Luisa grow from the time of her birth. The work by Montero Rose is the continuation of Cortejo, and is a journey into the nature of blame, and trying to understand the end of a love that the main character still feels to be alive. In conversatin with Clara Elvira Ospina.
Mathilde Forget in conversation with Verónica Ramírez
Of one’s own will
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Alianza Francesa de Arequipa
Mathilde Forget (France) has been inspired by the events of her own life to write her second novel, De mon plein gré, a short, sharp book about a woman who ends up doubting her own version of the facts. A portrait of a legal system and administrative violence that blames and shames those who seek help, and where the ambiguities of the language used can create a battlefield. In conversation with Verónica Ramírez.
Simultaneous interpretation from French to Spanish available
Carlos Caamaño, Alejandro Castellote and Dante Trujillo in conversation with Gabriel Ruiz Ortega
Celebrating Mario Vargas Llosa
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Centro Cultural Peruano Norteamericano (auditorio)
This year the festival is offering a number of activities in homage to the life and work of Mario Vargas Llosa, including an exhibition by Morgana Vargas Llosa, dedicated to her father, and the publication of a book together with the Fondo de Cultura Económica which compiles the conversations of the Nobel laureate which have taken place at Hay festivals over the years. We meet the exhibition curators, Alejandro Castellote and Carlos Caamaño, and the book’s editor, Dante Trujillo.
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Sponsored by Fundación BBVA and with the support of the Spanish Embassy in Perú and AECID
Alberto Fuguet and Dany Salvatierra in conversation with Giancarlo Cappello
B movies and literature
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Centro Cultural Peruano Norteamericano (teatro)
B movies have always been a type of refuge of all kinds of anti-hero. These stories have been low in budget, but high in imagination, and have often been transgressive and have featured those who live on the margins of society, those who are ignored. They have also been an inexhaustible source of inspiration in literature, as Alberto Fuguet (Chile) and Dany Salvatierra (Peru) will tell us, in conversation with Giancarlo Cappello.
This event has taken place
With the support of the Chilean Embassy in Peru and the University of Lima
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
Salma El Moumni and Diego Molina in conversation with Rosario Yori
First novels
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Alianza Francesa de Arequipa
Salma El Moumni(Morocco) and Diego Molina(Peru) present their debut novels: Adieu Tanger and La fascinación, respectively. The first, winner of a France Culture award for a student novel, and shortlisted for the Prix Médicis, is a story about the destructive power the male gaze can have over women. After publishing three poetry books —Homesick, No somos más sabios después del diluvio and Expreso transeuropeo—, the Arequipa lawyer and poet has written a novel, and has indicated that he will soon move into the territory of the short story. In conversation with Rosario Yori.
Simultaneous interpretation from French to Spanish available
Andres Barba and Pilar Quintana in conversation with Rosario Yori
Darkness in the everyday
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Alianza Francesa de Arequipa
Joseph Conrad immortalised it in the iconic words from Heart of Darkness: “The horror!, the horror!”, and it is true that darkness attracts writers the way light attracts moths. Horror, fantasy and the strange, of course, but also the darkness of the everyday. This is how Andrés Barba (Spain) and Pilar Quintana(Colombia) make readers’ hair really stand on end when the night falls on their pages.
Simultaneous interpretation from English to Spanish available
This event has taken place
With the support of the British Council and Acción Cultural Española, AC/E
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
Jessica Andrews and Claudia Paredes Guinand in conversation with Sandra González Luna
Emerging literature
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Centro Cultural Peruano Norteamericano (teatro)
Both Saltwater —her debut novel and winner of the Portico Prize— and Milk Teeth have made Jessica Andrews one of the most promising and interesting writers in the United Kingdom. Her writings cover issues such as social class, gender and the body, and she has also done theatre adaptations such as Saint Maud. In Un lugar en la familia de las cosas, Claudia Paredes Guinand (Peru) portrays the confusion and instability created by a past that we cannot understand and a future full of uncertainty. In conversation with Sandra González Luna.
Simultaneous interpretation from English to Spanish available
Carlos Enrique Freyre and Enmanuel Grau in conversation with Paola Donaire
South to North Conversations: violences
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Centro Cultural Peruano Norteamericano (auditorio)
Violence is an oozing sore in the literature of Carlos Enrique Freyre and Enmanuel Grau, and is a constant feature of their recent work. The Peruvian writer and soldier writes about violence through the link between the conquistadors and their dogs, as well as the nature of power; in Tierra de canes he takes us back to the days of Tomás de Xérez, who became an aperreador—those who used dogs of war to defeat the indigenous people— as part of his service in the conquest of the New World. If El fin del mundo could speak, it would cry out with the pain of the protagonists of its stories: a poet tortured by the police, a young man who flees from repression in Bagua, two former soldiers who evoke the excesses committed… together withPaola Donairethey will talk about the brutality related in their books.
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
Teresa Ruiz Rosas in conversation with Augusto Carrasco
South to North Conversations: 'Coreografía para trenzas solas'
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Alianza Francesa de Arequipa
Teresa Ruiz Rosas (Peru) present her most recent book,Coreografía para trenzas solas, a novel about the private stories of women at war, their pain and their beauty, and about the construction of a world through the unique Andean oral tradition. In conversation with Augusto Carrasco.
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
François Vallaeys is a philosopher and teller of popular stories from the age-old oral tradition. Through humour and tenderness, he will offer an event with stories to guide listeners towards the most profound human wisdom, with tales from all over the world. These are not the kind that are read to send girls and boys to sleep, but rather those that wake adults, that through their simplicity manage to cure the wounds of the soul.
Alejandra Moffat and Dany Salvatierra in conversation with Jorge Malpartida
South to North Conversations: inhospitable countries, startling stories
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Alianza Francesa de Arequipa
From settings as different as clandestine activities during the Chilean dictatorship or a dystopian Lima in ruins Mambo by Alejandra Moffat (Chile) and Criaturas virales by Dany Salvatierra (Peru) converge on a single idea: situating their work in hostile landscapes through which characters affected by silence and violence travel. From a girl who grows up among murmurs and secrets; to the inhabitants of Villa Diodati, creatures who survive drowning in poverty. In conversation with Jorge Malpartida.
This event has taken place
With the support of the Chilean Embassy and of Open Society Foundations
