A dialogue between the Nobel Prize for Literature Mario Vargas Llosa and the Princess of Asturias Award Leonardo Padura The Escribidores literary festival will open on February 22 in Malaga, which in its second edition expands activities to Almería, Seville and Granada.
The talk, according to shared program by the organizers, will be determined by the title: “The characters of my life”, and will be moderated by the editor Marisol Schulz.
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From FEB 22 to 25 it will be held in Malaga, Seville, Granada and Almería.
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The festival will have France as the guest country of honor and will award its Writers Award for Cultural Management to Raúl Padilla, founder and current president of the Guadalajara Book Fair, and the Literary Career Award, posthumously, to the writer Brazilian Nelida Pinonrecently deceased.
Escribores was born “with the spirit of connecting the two shores across the Atlantic, of twinning Europe and America with culture and literature, of encouraging debate and dialogue, and of contributing to the creation of citizenship through critical thinking” Raúl Tola, director of the festival and of the Vargas Llosa Chair, one of the organizers, recalled this Monday in the presentation.
France has been chosen as the guest country because it is “one of the greatest literary powers in the world” and as a “magnificent prelude to the incorporation of Vargas Llosa into the French Academy”, added Tola.
The Spanish Manuel Vilas, Pilar Adón, Inés Martín Rodrigo, Luis Mateo Díez, Juan Tallón, Sergio del Molino, Antonio Soler or Ángel Esteban, the Mexicans Jordi Soler, Jorge Hernández, Marisol Schulz and David Toscana, the Argentine Martín Caparrós and the Cuban Zoe Valdés.
Other confirmed attendees are the Peruvians Renato Cisneros and Santiago Roncagliolo and the Venezuelans Gustavo Guerrero and Rodrigo Blanco Calderón, while the Chilean writer Isabel Allende will intervene virtually.
Representing the invited country will be the French authors David Foenkinos, Mathias Enard and Maylis de Kerangal, as well as the journalist, novelist and biographer Pierre Assouline.
The festival will be held from February 22 to 25, and will turn Andalusia, the region where it is celebrated, “into the epicenter of literature in our language and a communication hinge between two traditions such as the European and Latin American,” according to Tola.
With information from Efe.
