The Festival seeks to generate community and consolidate a central place for Latin American voices in Europe.
“Our project is inclined to highlight the voices of the margins, to oppose an arrow against the definitions and labels of what is Latin American literature seen from Europe,” says Ezequiel Naya, director of Lata Peinada together with Paula Vázquez.
“In that horizon, the centenary of ‘Trilce’ summons us as a key. A collection of poems written from prison and against prison: of the canon, of the norm, of tradition, for the freedom of the language. 100 years after its publication, both Trilce’s poems and his manifesto continue to be contemporary”, they define from the bookstore to explain the reason for the thematic axis that the Festival will have.
On Friday, in Barcelona, there will be a talk between Clara Obligado and Fernanda García Lao on contemporary short stories and another on fiction and the body that Gabriel Wiener and Belén López Peiró will share, among other activities. On Saturday, Lina Meruane and Isabel Cristina Arenas Sepúlveda will speak on “the traps of the autobiographical” and a group of contemporary poets will celebrate Trilce one hundred years after its publication.
On Saturday, in Madrid, Ariana Harwicz and Michelle Roche will address “political correctness and women’s writing.” The full program of the Festival can be seen on the bookstore’s website: https://latapeinada.com
Despite the pandemic, the Festival managed to grow year after year. “The passage of time allowed us to expand the project, with a headquarters in Madrid, with more readers and customers who know us. We are not a passing bookstore, we are not a novelty bookstore, the most important thing for Lata Peinada is the construction of a community of readers. That’s what we work for every day, that’s why, ultimately, we also do the Festival”, they explain.
This year, in addition, they will add the headquarters of the Gabriel García Márquez Library as a meeting place. “It is a wonderful space that has an eye on Latin American literature and naturally we are projects called to collaborate. In addition to providing books that are not distributed in Spain, we work to generate a common agenda,” they say. For this reason, this year, one of the tables of the Festival, the conversation between Lina Meruane and Isabel-Cristina Arenas Sepúlveda, will be at the headquarters of the Library.
Source: Ambito
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