Rosa Ribas, Lorenzo Silva, Noemí Trujillo, Cristina Higueras and Elia Barceló are some of the names on the program
Rosa Ribas, Lorenzo Silva, Noemí Trujillo, Cristina Higueras, Elia Barceló, Empar Fernández, Arantza Portabales, Enrique Pérez Balsa, Benito Olmo and Santiago Díaz Cortés are some of the authors who will participate in the new edition of Cartagena Negra, which will take place between September 6 and 10, and that she will recover from the usual five days after the pandemic. Thirty-four authors, four reading clubs, four book launches, short film screenings, in-depth discussions, roundtables highlighting the genre from different angles, a live short story competition, another short story competition and the presentation of the two prize novel that Cartagena Negra hosts are activities to celebrate in the city.
Writing with four hands, analyzing the role of black publishers, moving from the page to the screen, exploring new narrative paths or reflecting on the role of women in the genre are some of the topics that will be discussed at a conference this year. eighth edition and which have already established themselves as one of the most relevant in the national literary scene.
Hand in hand with the City Council of Cartagena and the reading clubs of the network of municipal libraries, the first days of September will make the city overflow with mystery literature, also thanks to a large number of collaborators, and always with an objective approach to the readers of the authors and their works.
All information and the program of the conference can now be found on the social networks and the Cartagena Negra website: www.cartagenanegra.com.
On Tuesday, September 6, the table ‘Icue negro’ will take place, with José Francisco Alonso; Brown Sea; Eduardo Fernan-Lopez and Ines Domenech del Rio; and a conversation with Rosa Ribas by Antonio Parra and Francisco Marín; Wednesday 7 September is the reading club for ‘It will be our secret’, by Empar Fernández; the presentation of ‘Survival’, by Arantza Portabales; and the round table ‘Black publishers, strong bets’, with Empar Fernández (Alrevés Editorial), Elia Barceló (Roca Editorial), María Suré (Ediciones Maeva) and Teresa Cardona (Editorial Siruela).
On Thursday September 8 there is the reading club ‘La forja de un rebel’, by Lorenzo Silva and Noemí Trujillo; the presentation of ‘Prohibido’, by Enrique Pérez Balsa; and the ‘Kill four hands’ round table, with Lorenzo Silva and Noemí Trujillo; Beatriz Roger and Luiso Soldevila; Jordi Ledesma and José ngel Mañas. On Friday September 9, Benito Olmo’s reading club ‘El gran rojo’ will take place; the presentation of ‘The Dead Man’s Hand’, from The Fifth Book (Víctor Mirete, Alfonso Gutiérrez, Antonio Parra Sanz, Jesús Boluda, Pilar Fernández, Cristóbal Terrer, Paco Rabadán); and the ‘Expanding the genre’ round table, with Cristina Higueras, Mónica Rouanet, Myriam Imedio and Rafael Guerrero. On Saturday September 10th there will be the presentation of ‘The other girls’, by Santiago Díaz Cortés; the reading club ‘Gancho blind’, by Antonio Flórez Lage; and the ‘Cast to black’ round tables, featuring Benito Olmo, Manuel Ríos San Martín and Santiago Díaz, moderated by Ana Ballabriga; and “Cartagena Negra Noir Novel Award,” with Santiago Díaz (“The Good Father”), Men Marías (“The Last Dove”), Félix García Hernán (“Pastores del Mal”) and Manuel Ríos San Martín (“Where there is darkness”), moderated by Antonio Parra Sanz.
Source: La Verdad
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