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Event 52
Carlos Aganzo, Luis Alberto de Cuenca, Raquel Lanseros and José María Muñoz Quirós
The richest and most beautiful poetry
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Ermita del Convento de San Juan de la Cruz de los Padres Carmelitas Descalzos
noThe cave, where one can hear The Dark Night; the orchards and the chapel, where The Spiritual Canticle resounds; and there, high above, with Segovia as a backdrop, the tree of St. John of the Cross, Living Flame of Love… A journey of literary and spiritual fulfillment through the places of the most poetic of all saints and the holiest of all poets, on the centenary of his designation as a Doctor of the Church, led by the minstrels of the San Juan de la Cruz Academy of Fontiveros: Luis Alberto de Cuenca, Raquel Lanseros, José María Muñoz Quirós, and Carlos Aganzo.
Event in Spanish
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In collaboration with the Convent of Saint John of the Cross of the Discalced Carmelites
Inmaculada Ballesteros and Sonia Faleiro in conversation with Miquel Molina
Networks that foster literary communities
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IE University. Refectorio
Inma Ballesteros (Spain) and Sonia Faleiro (India) are two figures indispensable to promoting writers in today’s global literary ecosystem. They are the driving force behind bringing diverse literary voices to festivals and book fairs in every corner of the world. Ballesteros promotes Spanish culture in her role as director of programming at Acción Cultural Española (AC/E), whilst Faleiro is the founder of the South Asia Speaks mentoring programme, which aims to amplify emerging literature in that region. The two organisers will speak with the writer and deputy editor of La VanguardiaMiquel Molina about the importance of building networks to support literary communities of emerging talent and about their work at the helm of AC/E and South Asia Speaks.
At the end of the event, the authors will be signing copies of his books
Event in English with simultaneous interpretation into Spanish
Price: €9.00 (EUR)
Co-organised with Acción Cultural Española, AC/E and the collaboration of Open Society Foundations
Mónica González Inés in conversation with Laura Ventura
The Bonds of Beauty
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Biblioteca Municipal Casa de la Lectura
Excessive demands, guilt, and the fear of failure push us to live on the edge and turn mistakes into a form of personal failure. Mónica González Inés, who dazzled critics and readers alike with her debut novel, delves into these challenges and difficulties without mincing words: the exhaustion of life, our own fragility. And also as an invitation to nurture our connections and reclaim the use of time and silence. Precisely, El aire quema speaks to this: how long the image of a perfect life can be sustained—a woman at the peak of her career, with a solid and respectable life, who makes a mistake that will have serious consequences and, in an unexpected impulse, decides to hide it and embarks on a double life. She will discuss all of this with Laura Ventura, who holds a Ph.D. in Hispanic Philology and is a professor of literature at Carlos III University; she also writes for the Argentine newspaper La Nación.
At the end of the event, the author will sign copies of her books
Marta Jiménez Serrano and Nerea Pérez de las Heras in conversation
The Daily Wonder of Still Being Here
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IE University. Aula Magna
An accident can split a life in two. It can also become a way of looking at the world. Marta Jiménez Serrano and Nerea Pérez de las Heras draw on extreme experiences that nearly cost them their lives to create two books that transcend autobiographical narrative and delve into universal themes. In Oxígeno, Jiménez Serrano recalls the carbon monoxide poisoning that nearly killed her while weaving in reflections on love, family, housing, and precariousness. In Fantasma, Pérez de las Heras transforms the loss of part of her leg following a boating accident into a luminous and incisive reflection on the body, identity, public healthcare, exposure, and friendship. With sensitivity, humor, and a remarkable ability to transform personal experience into literature, both authors confront death head-on to celebrate the daily wonder of still being here.
Following the event, the authors will sign copies of their books
Event in Spanish
Price: €9.00 (EUR)
Co-organised with Acción Cultural Española, AC/E, in partnership with Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
Margaryta Yakovenko in conversation with Jesús García Calero
Reinterpret the past
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IE University. Refectorio
Some lives are enough for many lives; and there are family stories whose recollection brings to light the history of their surroundings, sometimes dramatic. Margaryta Yakovenko emigrated to Spain at the age of 7 with her parents, leaving her loved ones behind in Ukraine. Today, everything has taken an unexpected turn, and that family now finds itself in an area invaded by Russia. Together with Jesús García Calero, a journalist and one of Spain’s leading experts in cultural outreach, she will explore the last century of a region that has been particularly turbulent. She will draw on her latest work, Ocupación, which serves as a reckoning with her past.
At the end of the event, the authors will sign copies of her book
Rosa Ribas, Marta Robles and Lorenzo Silva in conversation with Ana Gavín
A Character from a Crime Novel
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Teatro Juan Bravo
The crime novel is not just a smoking gun and a corpse. Alongside the clues and suspects, there is also a raw reflection of society and its less-than-exemplary corners. That is why it is important—as three true masters of the crime novel will demonstrate at this event—to clearly define how a character in this narrative genre is created. Lorenzo Silva, Marta Robles, and Rosa Ribas have created characters rooted in everyday reality: Civil Guards, detectives, and police officers who reveal the darkest aspects of our world. The noir in all its forms. The discussion will be moderated by Ana Gavín, Director of Publishing Relations at Grupo Planeta
At the end of the event, the authors will sign copies of their books
Alejandro Gándara and Gustavo Martín Garzo in conversation
The Unhurried Gaze of the Classics
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Biblioteca Municipal Casa de la Lectura
Two giants of Spanish literature, Alejandro Gándara and Gustavo Martín Garzo, advocate distancing themselves from the present and its technological disruption characterized by immediacy, and returning to the Greek classics and the Bible to rest their gaze. Both, through their respective works—especially their most recent ones—choose to draw from ancient sources to reposition the world through a beauty that lessens fear and anxiety. In short, to strengthen human intelligence in the face of other, always artificial, intelligences.
At the end of the event, the authors will sign copies of their books
Event in Spanish
Price: €9.00 (EUR)
Co-organized with Acción Cultural Española, AC/E and Galaxia Gutenberg
Contemporary Spanish music cannot be discussed without mentioning Ramoncín. Since bursting onto the scene in the 1970s at just 22 years old and with a burning desire to take on the world, this Madrid-born artist is responsible for some of the most important anthems in the history of Spanish rock, such as Hormigón, Mujeres y Alcohol, Como un susurro, La chica de la puerta 16, Miedo a soñar, Marica de terciopelo, Estamos desesperados and Ángel de cuero. Armed with a wealth of experience in music, life, and culture, Ramoncín sits down to talk with Santiago Herrero, director of Cultural and Scientific Relations at AECID, to explain how one can continue to be a trailblazer at the age of 70.
Mathias Enard in conversation with Helena de Bertodano
Melancholy of the Outskirts
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IE University. Refectorio
Cities and journeys through the traces left by the past and its memory are settings that Mathias Enard places at the heart of his works as in his latest book, Melancolía de los confines: Norte, in which he blends memoir, travelogue and literary essay. Physical landscapes, but also moral ones, run through his entire body of work, creating a kind of geographical, human and literary border. He explores other borders that have more to do with memory and with the ability to understand who we are when we cease to exist.His latest work, the first part of a quartet on the cardinal points, serves as a vehicle for discussing all this with Helena de Bertodano, a journalist specialising in interviews and profiles of celebrities for prestigious publications. The event will be presented by Zélie Perpignaa, an expert in cultural mediation and attaché for Books, the Exchange of Ideas, and Media Libraries at the Institut Français in Spain.
At the end of the event, the author will be signing copies of his books
Event in Spanish
Price: €9.00 (EUR)
Co-organized with the French Embassy in Spain and the Institut Français and in collaboration with Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
ΚΑΛΛΟΣ: Ritual to Aphrodite and Eros is an experiential ceremony that invites the audience to an initiation into the concept of beauty. In a world of noise, we invite you to an unusual encounter with the spirit and aesthetics of the ancient Greek worldview. Through a harmonious interplay of word and art, the performance unfolds as a mystagogical ceremony: Sappho’s hymns and the Orphic hymns resonate live, accompanied by the ancient harp, while the sacred scent of incense and the immersive audiovisual narrative create an initiatory atmosphere. Philosophical discourse intertwines with ritual, transforming theory into experience.
Here, beauty is not merely analyzed; it is felt. ΚΑΛΛΟΣ offers a unique opportunity for the audience to experience the universal power of Eros and Harmony through a composition that transcends time. A ceremony that invites you to reflect on and contemplate the essence of beauty through the eyes of the soul.
The texts and presentation are by Chryssa Georganta, stage director and professor of ancient Greek theater, who possesses a wealth of knowledge about the classics of Greek theater and teaches through her Θήτα (Zíta) method. She will be accompanied by:
Texts and presentation: Chryssa Georganta
Hymn singing: Niki Hellinis
Coryphaeus: Fani Skouvari
Chorus: Niki Pappas
Harp: Alexia Gialitakis Nieto
Visuals/Video: Sotiris Visaltis
Recorded music: Telemachos
Sheila Cremaschi will introduce this ancient initiation ceremony.
Event commentary in Spanish and hymns in Greek
Price: €9.00 (EUR)
Co-organised with the Juan Bravo Theatre and the Provincial Council of Segovia, in collaboration with the Greek Embassy in Spain
