Projects

    Minimal Autobiographies Workshop

    The Minimal Autobiographies Workshop led by Beltrán Gambier at Segovia Prison has become an annual Hay Festival Segovia tradition, reaching its seventh edition in 2026. Founder and editor of Intramuros, a magazine devoted to autobiographical writing, Gambier offers inmates the opportunity to take part in a high-level literary activity in which they write a short autobiographical account drawn from their own lives. No prior academic training is required. In addition to Gambier, the workshop usually welcomes a guest writer; this year, novelist Gervasio Posadas will join the sessions.

    Disappearing Wall

    Meeting of Reading Clubs from Segovia and Seville

    Reading once again breaks down walls and builds bridges. Co-organised with the José Manuel Lara Foundation and Segovia City Council, and in collaboration with the Dos Amigos Foundation and the Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum, the Reading Club of the Entreamigos Association in Seville’s Polígono Sur district—better known as Las Tres Mil Viviendas—will join forces with rural reading clubs from Segovia. As part of this exchange, members of both clubs will read Las buenas intenciones (Good Intentions) by Víctor del Árbol and take part in a shared meeting with the author.

    The Seville reading club, made up of women, has met weekly for the past ten years. Through reading, its members have found a means of personal growth and a way to confront situations of social and economic vulnerability.

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    South to North Conversations

    Through its South to North series, Hay Festival seeks to create a space where some of the most innovative voices from the Global South can share different ways of understanding the world and discuss non-Western approaches to the challenges we face today. The series is supported by Open Society Foundations.

    At Hay Festival Segovia 2026, the programme includes three South to North conversations: Deception, with Palestinian writer Adania Shibli; a discussion between two storytellers of regions, Jacobo García and Sani Ladan; and Networks that Strengthen Literary Communities, featuring Inmaculada Ballesteros and Sonia Faleiro.

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    Partnership with CAF

    CAF – Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean and Hay Festival have joined forces to promote and strengthen cultural and creative economies across the region through a series of events.

    At Hay Festival Segovia 2026, CAF supports the following sessions: History and Its Emotions: José Miguel Ortega in Conversation with Héctor Rodríguez; Buenos Aires Is Well Worth a Tango (or a Novel): Martín Caparrós in Conversation with Juan Bonilla; and Other Stories from the Archive of the Indies: Martín Caparrós, Juan Bonilla and Erna von der Walde in Conversation.