The Hay festival Arequipa is one of the most important Spanish-speaking culture festivals, in which arts and sciences are celebrated through inclusive, accessible and playful events.
The ninth edition, which will be held between November 9 and 12, 2023, once again has the support of Acción Cultural Española in the presence of the following Spanish authors:
Azahara Alonso has a degree in Philosophy, author of the book of aphorisms Bajas pressures (Trea, 2016), of the poetry collection Gestar un topico (RIL, 2020). She is also the author of Gozo (Siruela, 2023), a book halfway between a novel and a lyrical essay, a hybrid between a travel notebook and a reflective diary that was very well received by the public and critics. She has been coordinator at the Hotel Kafka writing school and cultural manager at the José Hierro Poetry Center Foundation. She proofreads, writes literary criticism, and teaches writing classes.
Marta Peirano. Journalist and essayist. Columnist for El País and RNE. She has been founder of Hack Hackers and Copyfight Berlin, co-director of Copyfight, head of Culture at ADN.es, deputy to the director at eldiario.es, technology curator at the Barcelona Biennial of Thought and member of the working group for the cyber defense of the CEASE. She directs (re)programming-Strategies for Self-Renewal, a talk show on technology and climate change at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Ljubljana and Deep Journalism, a seminar on the new new journalism at Medialab-Matadero (Madrid). Her latest book is Against the Future (Debate, 2022), a critical analysis of climate technologies and apocalyptic stories. She previously published The Enemy Knows the System (Debate, 2019), an essay on platform capitalism that has just released its 15th edition.
Martin Ibarrola. The jury of the Bodegas Olarra & Café Bretón Literary Prize has awarded the prize of the twenty-eighth edition to the Basque writer Martín Ibarrola for his project The wounded jungle. The work selected in this edition tells of Ibarrola's journey accompanying the Basque archaeologist Miguel Gutiérrez Garitano to the Peruvian jungle of Madre de Dios where they discovered the mysterious and terrible reality of the Amazon: individuals who have emerged from the forests and speak a forgotten language , a stone face hidden among vines, a city built on sheet metal, blood and gold, a document that reveals state secrets, a prosecutor and a farmer who do not give in to hitmen and the corrupt... The wounded jungle tells a story of beauty, adventure and devastation in the new Amazonian Far West.
Marta Jiménez Serrano is the author of the collection of poems The Light Age (Rialp, 2021), which was runner-up for the 2020 Adonais Prize, and the novel Los Nombres Proper (Sexto Piso, 2021), translated into Italian. She was selected for the Acción Cultural Española writers' residency at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, where she wrote part of her latest novel and No todo el mundo (Sexto Piso, 2023). She has collaborated in various literary magazines, as well as in the collective book Querida Theresa (Comisura, 2022). She currently lives in Madrid, where she teaches creative writing workshops.
Mohamed El Morabet. Born in Al Hoceima, Morocco, Mohamed has lived in Madrid since 2002 and has adopted Spanish as his literary language, using extremely careful language full of subtle metaphors. Graduated in Political Science, he regularly publishes his writings in magazines and cultural supplements. His first novel was An Abandoned Lot (Sitara, 2018) and with his second, The Winter of the Goldfinches (2022, Galaxia Gutenberg), he won the Málaga Novel Prize.