Xavi Ayén

Xavi Ayén (Spain) works as an editor at the cultural section of La Vanguardia newspaper. During the 90s, he also directed the youth supplement VANG. He will speak about his book Aquellos años del boom, winner of the Premio Gaziel de Biografías y Memorias.
 

Evento para estudiantes universitarios

Centro de las Artes de la Universidad Católica San Pablo.

Time: 10:00 - 11:00.

Literature. Michael Collins

Collins was born in Ireland and moved to Indiana (USA) in 1981 with a sports scholarship. He then studied at Oxford and went back to the United States to work in a “very white and very priviliged society”, where the “American dream” was fading away. With a style that owns to the Irish literary tradition and with influences from the literature that portraited the dustbowl towns left by the crisis of 1929, Collins’ novels speak of the decline of the American Midwest. Many of his thoughts about life in the Midwest come from not feeling comfortable inside that very same culture.
 

Event for university students
Simultaneous translation from English to Spanish available

Centro de las Artes de la Universidad Católica San Pablo.

Time: 16:00 - 17:00.

Literature and Poetry. Cees Nooteboom

Cees Nooteboom is one of the greatest and most original contemporary Dutch writers: translator of Spanish, Catalan, French and German poetry and American plays, and the author of novels, poetry, essays and travel books. He has won, among other accolades, the Bordewijk Prize (1981), the Pegasus Literature Prize (1982), the Aristeion European Literature Prize (1993), the Madrid Círculo de Bellas Artes Gold Medal (2003), the European Poetry Prize (2008), the Dutch Literature Prize (2009) and one of the most prestigious travel writing awards, the Chatwin Prize (2010).

Event for university students

Centro de las Artes de la Universidad Católica San Pablo.

Time: 19:00 - 20:00.

Andrea Marcolongo

Andrea Marcolongo (Italy) was in charge of writing the speeches of the former italian prime minister Matteo Renzi. Her knowledge of classical greek language allowed her to write The brilliant language: nine reasons to love greek, a beautiful book where she shares her ideas on the importance of this language, of capital importance for western culture. She will talk about her findings with Carlo Trivelli.

Simultaneous translationavailable from Italian to Spanish

Centro de las Artes de la Universidad Católica San Pablo.

Time: 10:00 - 11:00.

Maylis de Kerangal

Maylis de Kerangal (France) has worked in publishing and is the author of novels including Birth of a Bridge, translated into eight languages and winner of the Médicis, Franz Hessel and Gregor von Rezzori prizes, and Mend the Living, winner in 2015 of the Llibreter Prize awarded by Catalan booksellers. Her latest work to be published in Spanish is Lampedusa, a novel built up around the name Lampedusa, which the author hears on the radio, full of literary and geographical associations, but also of tragedy and pain because of its link to the port of Lampedusa and the massive arrival of refugees on Sicily in recent years.

Simultaneous translation available from French to Spanish

Event for university students
 

Centro de las Artes de la Universidad Católica San Pablo.

Time: 16:00 - 17:00.

Edurne Portela

The Spanish writer Edurne Portela will speak about her latest book, Mejor la ausencia, where Amaia, the protagonist and the youngest of four siblings, tells the story of the brutal surroundings of a town on the shores of the Nervión river during the 80´s and 90´s. Amaia challenges that hostile world until she reaches her own limits.

Event for university students

Centro de las Artes de la Universidad Católica San Pablo.

Time: 19:00 - 20:00.

Poetry. Victoria Guerrero

The poet and researcher Victoria Guerrero has a doctorate in Literature from the University of Boston and a degree in Gender Studies from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. She recently published En un mundo de abdicaciones, the novella Un golpe de dados (novelita sentimental pequeño burguesa) and, together with the Chilean poet Raúl Zurita, Zurita + Guerrero. A compilation of her poetry was published with the title Documentos de barbarie (2002 - 2012), which includes the books: El mar, ese oscuro porvenir, Ya nadie incendia el mundo, Berlín and Cuadernos de quimioterapia..

Event for university students

Centro de las Artes de la Universidad Católica San Pablo.

Time: 10:00 - 11:00.

Literature. Guadalupe Nettel

The author of books such as El huésped (shortlisted for the 2005 Herralde Prize), Pétalos y otras historias incómodas and The Body Where I Was Born, will talk about literature. Nettel (Mexico) has won numerous awards, including the Ribera del Duero International Short Fiction Prize for Natural Histories and the 2014 Herralde Novel Prize for Después del invierno.
 

Event for students

Centro de las Artes de la Universidad Católica San Pablo.

Time: 14:00 - 15:00.

Teju Cole

A US citizen of Nigerian origin, Teju Cole is a researcher, writer, photographer and critic whose work ranges across a variety of forms of expression. His novels and essays have been praised on a number of occasions by The New York Times, The Guardian and Time magazine. He will talk about his most recent work, Blind Spot, in which he experiments with combinations of photography and text.

Translation available from English to Spanish

Centro de las Artes de la Universidad Católica San Pablo.

Time: 16:00 - 17:00.

Cities. Deyan Sudjic

Deyan Sudjic is a writer and design and architecture critic. He currently acts as Director in the London Design Museum, which is one of the world´s leader in the field of contemporary design. He is also the author, amongst other works, of the influential monograph The Edifice Complex: the architecture of power and The Language of Cities.

Simultaneous translation available from English to Spanish

Event por university students

Centro de las Artes de la Universidad Católica San Pablo.

Time: 19:00 - 20:00.