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Cristina Bendek in conversation with Ricardo Chica

Salt crystals

Cartagena 2026, 

In Los cristales de la sal, Cristina Bendek (Colombia) shows us an intimate return: a woman leaves her Mexican exile to return to San Andrés, confronting her origins and connecting with the ancestral voice of the island. This novel was the seed of the non-fiction Hilar el ritmo, a notebook about the spiritual space that goes into literary works, and about the rhythms needed for each story, from its origin to its writing.