Event 8
Tyto Alba, Anna-Lina Mattar and Gala Rocabert Navarro in conversation with Catalina Mejía
Where does a graphic novel come from?
Centro de Convenciones (salón 103)
Three participants share with us the experience of transforming real-life stories into narratives told through images. Our guests are Tyto Alba, an artist who has illustrated one of the masterpieces of Colombian literature: Oblivion: A Memoir, (published as El olvido que seremos, 2021); this classic fictionalized biography by Héctor Abad Faciolince looks in a heart-breaking way at the Colombian armed conflict through the personal experience of the author, who lost his father, the doctor Héctor Abad Gómez, at the hands of the paramilitaries. Anna-Lina Mattar and Gala Rocabert Navarro are the authors of En el ombligo. Diarios de guerra y paz en Colombia (2021), a graphic novel that collates the experiences of former guerrillas after the signing of the Peace Accords in 2016. Illustrator Anna-Lina Mattar uses images to narrate the work of Rocabert Navarro, a sociologist and anthropologist who reports from the field on life after the agreement. In conversation with Catalina Mejía.
With the Support of Acción Cultural Española, AC/E
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