BLACK WEEK OF GIJÓN-PROGRAMMING – TELAM Agency
Argentine literature will have a strong presence in the 35th edition of the Black Week in Gijón, which opened yesterday and will run until July 16 at the old Naval shipyard in the northern Spanish coastal city under the motto “Reading is memory”. and which has among its finalists for the main prizes the Argentine writers Claudia Piñeiro, Facundo Pastor, María Inés Primer and Flor Canosa.
Since in 2021 Piñeiro became the first Argentine writer to win the Dashiell Hammett Award for best crime novel for Catedrales and the third woman to win it, Argentine literature has a special place in Gijón’s Black Week. In this edition, Claudia Piñeiro for “El tiempo de las moscas” and María Inés Krimer for “Fin de temporada” are finalists in the Dashiell Hammett Award for the best crime novel in Spanish while Facundo Pastor competes with “Embush” for the Rodolfo Walsh Award for the best noir non-fiction work and Flor Canosa is a finalist for the Celsius award for the best science fiction and fantasy work by the hand of “The Second Mother Language”. The winners will be announced on Friday, July 14, it was reported in a statement.
According to the organizers, there will be about 240 participants who will meet in this new Black Week in Gijón and they warn that never before have so many authors, journalists, politicians, sociologists, historians or scientists come together to discuss black genre literature, which covers detective novel, thriller and suspense.
The old Naval Gijón shipyards will be the meeting point for ten days of photography and comic exhibitions and talks. Historically, one of the highlights of the Black Week in Gijón is the sale of books at very cheap prices at the fairgrounds. This has contributed to its popularity and it attracts a large number of visitors each year. The sale of books that, in this edition, will be organized inside a large tent that, in case of rain, will protect the booksellers and the copies.
The authors Pilar Sánchez Vicente, Carlos Zanón, Jacobo Rivero, Claudia Piñeiro, Jesús Cintora, Francisco Bastida, Alejandro Gallo, Peio H. Riaño, Mercedes Rosende, David Suarón, Manuel Vilas, Marta Robles, Bernard Minier, Paco Gómez will participate in this edition. Notary and Juan Carlos Monedero.
Some of the talks called seek to analyze the black novel and others, broader, address issues of cultural and literary interest: “New proposals for the Spanish black novel”, “The black novel in times of crisis”, “L’inventu de la llingua”, “Should politics interfere in cultural management?” or “The rights and rights of women.”
Source: Ambito
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