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Benengeli
INTERNATIONAL WEEK
OF LITERATURE IN SPANISH   2021

28, 29, 30 JUNE 2021

Manila
Manchester
New York
Benengeli
                             INTERNATIONAL WEEK
                             OF LITERATURE IN SPANISH                    2021

                         ALL THE VIRTUAL EVENTS CAN BE FOLLOWED ON:

            Instituto Cervantes      Instituto Cervantes   Instituto Cervantes   Instituto Cervantes
                   Manila                Mánchester            Nueva York

Benengeli 2021. International Week of Literature in Spanish is a literary festival
that in this first edition will focus on the promotion of literature in Spanish in
English-speaking countries. We will travel over three days in a literary world tour
through the centers of Manila, Manchester and New York. On June 28, 29 and 30,
videos and podcast of different authors will be posted on the YouTube and Ivoox
channels of the three centers, offering their reflections on the central theme of this
edition: autofiction and the self in literature. We will enjoy the conversation of
Antonio Muñoz Molina, Pilar Quintana, José Balza and Guadalupe Nettel, among
other authors, literary agents and translators from different countries, such as
Bolivia, Ecuador, Argentina, Venezuela, the United Kingdom, the Philippines and the
United States, among others.

                                  IN COLLABORATION WITH:
INTRODUCTION

                            Luis García Montero
                            Director. Instituto Cervantes

                            JUNE 28
                            YouTube I 9 am (local time)
                            New York I Manila I Manchester

                        BENENGELI’S READINGS
These dialogues with Antonio Muñoz Molina, José Balza and Pilar Quintana, recorded in Madrid, Caracas
           and Bogotá, will introduce the audience to their experience as writers and readers.

                                                         Antonio Muñoz Molina
                                                         in conversation with Lola Larumbe

                                                         JUNE 28
                                                         YouTube I 12 pm (local time)
                                                         New York I Manila I Manchester

                                                         José Balza in conversation
                                                         with Lilian Granados

                                                         JUNE 29
                                                         YouTube I 12 pm (local time)
                                                         New York I Manila I Manchester

                                                         Pilar Quintana in conversation
                                                         with Ileana Bolívar

                                                         JUNE 30
                                                         YouTube I 12 pm (local time)
                                                         New York I Manila I Manchester
AUTOFICTION IN BENENGELI
                                 Reflections on the self in literature.

JUNE 28

Lorenzo Silva                    Almudena Sánchez                         Mariano Peyrou
YouTube I 10 am (local time)     YouTube I 2 pm (local time)              YouTube I 5 pm (local time)
New York I Manila I Manchester   New York I Manila I Manchester           New York I Manila I Manchester

JUNE 29

Karina Sáinz Borgo               Mercedes Cebrián                         Juan Malpartida
YouTube I 10 am (local time)     YouTube I 2 pm (local time)              YouTube I 5 pm (local time)
New York I Manila I Manchester   New York I Manila I Manchester           New York I Manila I Manchester

JUNE 30

Martín Casariego                 Margaryta Yakovenko
YouTube I 10 am (local time)     YouTube I 2 pm (local time)
New York I Manila I Manchester   New York I Manila I Manchester
BENENGELI’S VOICES
          Authors, literary agents and translators will share with the audience their experiences
                                         in the publishing sector.

JUNE 28
Ivoox│2 pm GMT+2

Karla Suárez              Pedro Mairal                Andrea Montejo              Esther Allen

JUNE 29
Ivoox│2 pm GMT+2

Alberto                   Guadalupe Nettel            Anna Soler-Pont             Andrés Neuman
Barrera Tyszka

JUNE 30
Ivoox│2 pm GMT+2

Andrea Abreu               Ricardo                     Sarah Pollack
                           Menéndez Salmón
I CONFESS THAT I HAVE READ
Fernando Iwasaki will travel the past and present of the best literature in the Spanish language.

                         Fernando Iwasaki presents

                         Marta Susana Prieto                       María Fernanda Ampuero
                         Claudia Amengual                          Andrés Trapiello
                         Carlos Wynter Melo                        Juana Manuela Gorriti
                         Raquel Saguier                            Sergio Pitol
                         Gioconda Belli                            José Santos González Vera
                         Rafael Bolívar Coronado                   Max Jiménez
                         Héctor Abad Faciolince                    Jacinta Escudos
                         Julio Ramón Ribeyro                       Rita Indiana
                         Ena Lucía Portela                         Ana Lydia Vega
                         Augusto Monterroso                        Hilda Mundy

                         JUNE 28│YouTube│9 am & 3 pm (local time)
                         JUNE 29│YouTube│9 am (local time)
                         JUNE 30│YouTube│9 am & 3 pm (local time)

                         New York I Manila I Manchester
CONVERSATIONS AT BENENGELI

DISFIGURATIONS OF THE SELF: SUBJECTIVITY IN THE NOVEL
Jose Dalisay, Víctor del Árbol y Hernán Díaz in conversation with Jessica Zafra

JUNE 28 (MANILA)
YouTube│7 pm (local time)
Manila

THE SELF-EXPERIENCE IN PICTURES: GRAPHIC (AUTO)FICTION
Quan Zhou Wu e Isabel Greenberg in conversation with James Scorer

JUNE 29 (MANCHESTER)
YouTube│7 pm (local time)
Manchester

NEW TRENDS IN FICTION: SELF-EXPERIENCE AS RAW MATERIAL
Liliana Colanzi, Sandra Araya y Antonio Díaz Oliva in conversation with Alberto Ferreras

JUNE 30 (NEW YORK)
YouTube│7 pm (local time)
New York
ANDREA ABREU
Andrea Abreu (1995, Tenerife, Spain) is a journalist and writer. She has written the poetry collection
Mujer sin párpados. Her first novel, Panza de burro, will be translated into various languages and
adapted for the screen. Abreu has been selected as one of the best under-35 Spanish voices by the
prestigious magazine Granta.

ESTHER ALLEN
Esther Allen is a writer and translator. She is a professor at Baruch College and in the Ph.D. Programs
in French and in Latin American, Iberian and Latino Cultures at City University of New York Graduate
Center, and is director of Baruch’s Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence Program. Allen is a two-time
recipient of National Endowment for the Arts Translation Fellowships (1995 and 2010). Her translation
of Zama, by Antonio Di Benedetto, won the 2017 National Translation Award. In 2018-2019, she was
a Guggenheim Fellow. She co-founded the PEN World Voices Festival in 2005. In 2006, the French
government named her a Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. Her essays, translations and
interviews have appeared in the New York Review of Books Daily, the Paris Review, Words Without
Borders, Bomb, LitHub, the New Yorker and other publications. She has translated into English, among
other works, Antonio Muñoz Molina’s novel In Her Absence.

SANDRA ARAYA
Sandra Araya is a writer from Quito, Ecuador, born in 1980. She has published titles such as Orange,
El Cielo por Partes, Un Suceso Extraño, and El Lobo, el Espía, la Carnada, el Precio. She is part of the
project El cuento contemporáneo escrito con eñe, of the Instituto Cervantes of Milan, which promotes
the dissemination of short stories in Italy. She has been recognized with the Pablo Palacio Biennial
Award and the La Linares Short Novel Award for her book La Familia del Dr Lehman.

VICTOR DEL ÁRBOL
Víctor del Árbol was born in Barcelona in 1968. He was a policeman until 2012, when his literary career
made him devote himself to writing. He is the author of El Peso de los Muertos, El Abismo de los
Sueños, La Tristeza del Samurái, Breathes for the Wound and A Million Drops, among others.
Translated into more than ten languages, he is one of the most widely read foreign authors in France.
In 2018, he was named Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres of the French Republic.

JOSÉ BALZA
José Balza is a writer born in the Orinoco Delta (Venezuela), in 1939. A cult author in the Spanish-
language literature, his work combines a passion for art, cities, human complexity and jungle life. His
work includes novels such as Marzo Anterior, Largo, Percusión, Después Caracas and Un Hombre de
Aceite, among others. He has also published volumes of short stories such as Órdenes, La Mujer de
Espaldas, Un Orinoco Fantasma, or Ciudad en Ciudades, and essays such as Este Mar Narrativo,
Observaciones y Aforismos, Pensar a Venezuela, or Play b. He received the National Prize for Literature
of Venezuela in 1991.

ALBERTO BARRERA TYSZKA
Alberto Barrera Tyszka (Caracas, Venezuela, 1960) is a Venezuelan writer. He has published four novels,
a poetry collection, and three books of history. In 2015 his novel Patria o Muerte (The Last Days of El
Comandante) about Hugo Chávez and his struggle with cancer, won the XI Premio Tusquets de
Novela. He is a Professor of Literature at the Central University of Venezuela. He is a regular columnist
for the daily newspaper El Nacional, and a regular contributor to the magazine Letras Libres. He has
written telenovela screenplays in Argentina, Colombia, Mexico, and Venezuela. Barrera’s works have
been translated into Mandarin, French, English, and Italian. He lives in Mexico City.

ILEANA BOLÍVAR
Ileana Bolívar is a Colombian journalist, graduated from the Central University of Bogotá. Founder in
2001 of the Fundación Cultural Libros y Letras, she coordinates the magazine of the same name. She
works in radio and television production in different media, and in the edition of printed publications.

MARTÍN CASARIEGO
Martín Casariego has published various novels, short stories, books for children and several
screenplays. He is the author of Qué te voy a Contar (Tigre Juan Prize), Algunas Chicas son como
Todas, La Hija del Coronel (Ateneo de Sevilla Prize), Un Amigo así (Planeta, 2013) and El Juego sigue
sin mí (Siruela, 2015), among others. He also published a collection of literary portraits of historical
figures entitled Con las Suelas al Viento (La línea del horizonte, 2017). His latest work is the Max
Lomax noir series, of which the two first installments have just been published: Yo Fumo para Olvidar
que tú Bebes (Siruela, 2020) and Mi Precio es Ninguno (Siruela, 2021).

MERCEDES CEBRIÁN
Mercedes Cebrián (Madrid, Spain) has published narrative, essays, and poetry. Her book La nueva
taxidermia (Mondadori, 2011) was a finalist for the Tigre Juan Prize in 2012. Her most recent collection
of poems is Muchacha de Castilla. Her book Burp. Gastronomical Writings was translating into English
in 2017. Cebrián is a regular contributor to El País and Letras Libres. She has translated into Spanish
works by Georges Perec, Alan Sillitoe, and Miranda July, among other authors. She received a grant to
study literature in the Academy of Spain in Rome and has been author in residence at the Civitella
Ranieri Center, the Fondazione Santa Maddalena and Fundación MALBA in Buenos Aires. She has a
Master’s degree in Hispanic Studies from the University of Pennsylvania.

LILIANA COLANZI
Liliana Colanzi is the publisher of the independent literary press Dum Dum editora in Bolivia. As a
writer, she has published the short story books Vacaciones Permanentes (2010) and Nuestro Mundo
Muerto (Our Dead World, Dalkey Archive Press, 2017). In 2015 she won the Aura Estrada literary
award (Mexico). The Hay Festival Cartagena included her among the best Latin American writers under
40 (Bogotá39, 2017). Nuestro mundo muerto has been translated into five languages. She holds a PhD
in Comparative Literature from Cornell University.

JOSE DALISAY
Jose Dalisay is a Filipino writer. He has published more than 30 books of fiction and nonfiction plus
numerous plays and screenplays. Six of those books have garnered National Book Awards from
the Manila Critics Circle. In 1998, Dalisay made it to the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP)
Centennial Honors List as one of the 100 most accomplished Filipino artists of the past century.
Among his numerous books are Oldtimer and Other Stories, Sarcophagus and Other Stories, Killing
Time in a Warm Place, The Lavas: A Filipino Family, The Best of Barfly and The Filipino Flag. His
second novel, Soledad’s Sister, was shortlisted for the inaugural Man Asian Literary Prize, and he has
won 16 Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature. Dalisay’s books have also been published
in the United States, Italy, France and Spain. He is a professor of English and creative writing at the
University of the Philippines.

HERNÁN DIAZ
A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, Hernán Diaz has published stories and essays in Cabinet, The
New York Times, The Kenyon Review, Playboy, Granta, The Paris Review, and elsewhere. His first novel,
In the Distance, was translated into a dozen languages and was the winner of the Saroyan International
Prize, the Cabell Award, the Prix Page America, and the New American Voices Award, among other
distinctions. It was also a Publishers Weekly Top 10 Book of the Year, one of Lit Hub’s Top 20 Books of
the Decade, and a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award. He has a PhD from NYU, edits an academic
journal at Columbia University, and is also the author of Borges, between History and Eternity.

ANTONIO DÍAZ OLIVA
Antonio Díaz Oliva (ADO) is a Chilean writer living in Chicago. He is the author of the novel La soga de
los muertos and the short story collections La Experiencia Formativa, La Experiencia Deformativa and
Las Experiencias. He is also the editor of 20/40 and Estados Hispanos de América (Nueva Narrativa
Latinoamericana Made in USA), in which he brings together authors who write in Spanish and live in
the United States. He received the Roberto Bolaño Young Writers Award and the National Book Award
for Best Story Collection of the Year. He was chosen by FIL-Guadalajara as one of the most outstanding
Latin American writers born during the 80s. His journalism and essays have been published
in Asymptote, Rolling Stone, Latin American Literature Today, Gatopardo, Letras Libres and El
Malpensante. He teaches bilingual creative writing and translation at Saint Xavier University.

ALBERTO FERRERAS
Alberto Ferreras is a New York based Spanish/Venezuelan writer and director. He created, executed
produced and directed the HBO documentary series Habla (2003-2020). His award-winning novel
B as in Beauty (Hachette) was published in the U.S., Spain, and Italy in 2009. His short films Verbal Sex
(1999) and Tómbola (1997) premiered at the Berlinale, and Bigger (2004) premiered at Outfest and
was presented at London’s B.F.I. He is currently consulting for the Smithsonian Latino Center in
Washington D.C.

LILIAN GRANADOS
Lilian Granados is a Venezuelan journalist graduated from the Andrés Bello Catholic University and a
surgeon graduated from the UCV. Radio host, she also works on digital journalism as a disseminator of
cultural and scientific information on digital networks. She studied Ballet and Contemporary Dance.

ISABEL GREENBERG
Isabel Greenberg is a London-based illustrator and writer and the author of three acclaimed graphic
novels: The Encylopedia of Early Earth, The One Hundred Nights Of Hero and her latest Glass Town
(2020). She is the illustrator of a number of children’s books including One Hundred Billion Trillion
Stars, Power Up and The Ocean In Your Bathtub. Isabel studied illustration at the University of
Brighton and an MA in animation at the Royal College of Art. She is an associate lecturer at
Camberwell College of Arts, UAL.
FERNANDO IWASAKI
Fernando Iwasaki, born in 1961 in Lima, is a Peruvian writer and historian. He has published more than
20 volumes of fiction and non-fiction, such as Neguijón, El Libro del Mal Amor, Helarte de Amar and
Papel Carbón, among others. He contributes regularly to various newspapers and magazines. His work
has been translated into half a dozen languages, including Russian, English, French, Italian, Romanian
and Korean. He currently lives in Sevilla, Spain, where he is a Professor at the Loyola University.

LOLA LARUMBE
Lola Larumbe is a bookseller, born in Madrid in 1960. She has been in charge of the Rafael Alberti
bookstore in Madrid for more than 40 years. In 2005, the bookstore was awarded the Premio Librero
Cultural by the Spanish Ministry of Culture for its Encuentros en la Alberti project. The independent
publishers of Madrid awarded it the Bibliodiversity Prize in 2004 for the variety and richness of its book
collection, with more than 20,000 titles.

PEDRO MAIRAL
Pedro Mairal is an Argentine novelist, essayist, poet, and professor of English literature. He first
garnered critical and public acclaim with the 1998 publication of One Night with Sabrina Love, for
which he was awarded the Premio Clarín. In 2007, he was included in the Bogotá39, which named the
best Latin American author. In 2016 he published La Uruguaya, which won the Tigre Juan Prize in 2017
and which, after its publication in Argentina, has been published in more than ten editions by the
Spanish publishing house Libros del Asteroide. Nick Caistor’s translation of Mairal’s novel The Missing
Year of Juan Salvatierra has just been published by New Vessel Press.

JUAN MALPARTIDA
Juan Malpartida is a poet, narrator and literary critic born in Marbella, Spain, in 1956. He has published
novels such as Señora del Mundo, Camino de Casa; Reloj de Viento and La Tarde a la Deriva. He is the
author of several essays such as Octavio Paz: un Camino de Convergencies, Los Rostros del Tiempo
and Mi Vecino Montaigne, published in 2021. As a poet, his books stand out: Espiral; Bajo un Mismo
Sol; A un Mar Futuro and Río que Vuelve, among others. He has won the City of Barbastro Novel
Award and the ABC Cultural & Ámbito Cultural Award.

RICARDO MENÉNDEZ SALMÓN
Ricardo Menéndez Salmón (Gijón, Spain, 1971) is a Spanish writer. He is best known for his trilogy of
novels La Ofensa, Derrumbe and El Corrector. He has also published a travel book, a play, poems and
short stories. He contributes regularly to Spanish newspapers and literary journals. He holds a degree
in Philosophy from the University of Oviedo. He has won many literary prizes, including the
2016 Premio Biblioteca Breve for El Sistema, and has been translated into many languages, although
not so far into English. His latest work, which appeared in January 2020, is a memoir entitled No entres
dócilmente en esa Noche quieta.

ANDREA MONTEJO
Andrea Montejo, born in Colombia, graduated from the University of Paris IV-Sorbone. She started her
career in the publishing industry at HarperCollins New York, where she co-founded Rayo, an imprint
for Latin American and Spanish-language books that sought to bring to the United States titles of
Spanish and Latin American authors. In 2007 she founded Indent Literary Agency that represents
global authors in Spanish, Portuguese and English language.
ANTONIO MUÑOZ MOLINA
One of the foremost authors of the new Spanish narrative, Antonio Muñoz was born in Úbeda, Spain,
in 1956. He studied geography and history at the University of Granada, where he lived for almost 20
years. He began writing in the 1980s and his first published book, El Robinson Urbano, a collection of
his journalistic work, was published in 1984. His novels include Beatus Ille, Winter in Lisbon, Plenilunio,
and El Jinete Polaco, among others. He has received the Premio Planeta, the National Narrative Prize,
the Jerusalem Prize, and the Prince of Asturias Award for literature. Margaret Sayers Peden’s English-
language translation of his novel Sepharad won the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize. He
is a member of the Royal Spanish Academy.

GUADALUPE NETTEL
Guadalupe Nettel, born in 1973, is a Mexican writer. She has published four novels, including The
Body Where I Was Born and After the Winter. She won the Premio de Narrativa Breve Ribera del
Duero and the Premio Herralde literary awards. She has been a contributor to Granta, The White
Review, El País, The New York Times, La Repubblica and La Stampa. Her works have been translated
into more than twenty languages. She is the editor of the Revista de la Universidad de México, the
oldest cultural magazine in Mexico.

ANDRÉS NEUMAN
Andrés Neuman was born and spent his childhood in Buenos Aires. The son of exiled Argentinean
musicians, he grew up in Granada, where he taught Latin American literature at the University of
Granada. He was part of the first Bogotá39 list and was selected by the British magazine Granta as one
of the best new writers in Spanish. He is the author of novels such as Bariloche, Una vez Argentina,
El Viajero del Siglo, Hablar solos and Fractura, and books of short stories such as Alumbramiento and
Hacerse el Muerto. An anthology of his extensive poetic work has been collected in the volume Casa
fugaz. His most recent book is Anatomía sensible. His work has been translated into more than twenty
languages. He has received the Critics’ Prize, the Alfaguara Prize and the Hiperion Poetry Prize.

MARIANO PEYROU
Mariano Peyrou, born in 1971, is a Spanish writer. He lives in Madrid, where he works as a teacher of
Creative Writing, Jazz History and Music Aesthetics. He has published the books of poems La Voluntad
de Equilibrio, A Veces Transparente, La Sal, Estudio de lo Visible and Posibilidades en la Sombra,
among others. He is also the author of the novels De los Otros and Los Nombres de las Cosas. He has
recently published an essay on poetry, Tensión y Sentido.

SARAH POLLACK
Sarah Pollack is a professor of Latin American literature and translation studies at the College of Staten
Island, University of New York City, and the CUNY Graduate Center. Her translations from Spanish into
English include authors such as Juan Villoro, Fabio Morábito, Enrique Fierro and Oswaldo Estrada, and
have been published in leading literary journals such as Bomb, Gulf Coast and International Poetry
Review. She has also published the poetry collections Eloise by Silvia Eugenia Castillero and Reason
Enough by Ida Vitale. Her translation of the novel An Evocation of Matthias Stimmberg, by Mexican
author Alain-Paul Mallard, will be published by Wakefield Press.
PILAR QUINTANA
Pilar Quintana is a Colombian writer. She was born in Cali and studied at the Javeriana University in
Bogota. She is best known for her novels La Perra, which won the IV Award Biblioteca de Narrativa
Colombiana, and Coleccionistas de Polvos Raros, which won the La Mar de Letras Award. Her short
stories have appeared in magazines and anthologies across Latin America, and in Spain, and Germany.
In 2007, the Hay Festival Bogotá named Quintana among the 39 most important Latin American
writers under the age of 39.

KARINA SAINZ BORGO
Karina Sainz Borgo was born and raised in Caracas. She began her career in Venezuela as a journalist
for El Nacional. Her first novel, It Would Be Night in Caracas, critically acclaimed by critics and readers,
won the Grand Prix de l’Héroïne Madame Figaro and the International Literary Prize. Considered one
of the best books of the year by NPR and Time, it is being translated into twenty-six languages and
has sold movie rights. In 2019, Karina Sainz Borgo was chosen one of the 100 most creative people in
Forbes magazine. El Tercer País is her latest novel.

ALMUDENA SÁNCHEZ
Almudena Sánchez is a writer and journalist born in Mallorca, Spain, in 1985. La Acústica de los Iglús
was her first book of short stories, which has already reached its eighth edition and has also been
published in Argentina. Some of her short stories have been translated into English and published in
Two Lines magazine. In 2019 she was selected among the ten best young writers in Spain by AECID.
Her latest novel is titled Fármaco.

JAMES SCORER
James Scorer is Senior Lecturer in Latin American Cultural Studies at the University of Manchester. His
research focuses on Latin American urban imaginaries, particularly those of Buenos Aires, and on Latin
American cultural production, especially photography and comics. He is the author of City in Common:
Culture and Community in Buenos Aires and the editor of Comics Beyond the Page in Latin America.
He is also co-editor of Comics and Memory in Latin America.

KARLA SUÁREZ
Karla Suárez a Cuban writer, born in Havana in 1969. She studied classical guitar and has a degree in
electronic engineering. She is the author of four novels and four short stories. Her books have received
many international awards, including the Lengua de Trapo Prize for her 1999 debut novel Silencios.
Her stories have appeared in anthologies and magazines published in Europe, the United States, and
Latin America. In 2007, she was selected by the Hay Festival as one of the Bogotá39 writers, which
presents the best Latin American authors under the age of 40. Havana Year Zero is her third novel and
has obtained the Prix Carbet of the Caribbean and Tout-Monde and the Insular Book Prize, both in
France. It is her first book to be published in English (2021).

LORENZO SILVA
Lorenzo Silva is a Spanish writer born in 1966 in Madrid, Spain. He is the author of El Alquimista
Impaciente (Nadal Prize) The Faint-Hearted Bolshevik. Both novels were made into films. In October
2012, he was awarded the Premio Planeta de Novela for La Marca del Meridiano. An author of
immense popularity among readers, he has also published titles such as Tantos Lobos, Ahí afuera,
Donde uno cae and Diario de la Alarma. His latest work is Castellano. Several of his books have been
translated into fourteen languages.

ANNA SOLER-PONT
Born in 1968 in Barcelona, Anna Soler-Pont studied Arabic Language and Culture at the University of
Barcelona while she worked in publishing. In 1992 she founded Pontas Literary & Film Agency,
representing a wide range of authors and maintaining its focus on multicultural projects. In 2005 she
published an anthology of African stories and legends entitled A Marvellous Book of African Stories for
Children. In 2007, she published the book Rastres de Sàndal, co-authored with Asha Miró, which in
2014 was made into a film directed by Maria Ripoll.

QHAN ZHOU WU
Quan Zhou Wu is an illustrator and graphic novelist, born in Algeciras in 1989. In 2015 she debuted
with her book Gazpacho Agridulce, a biography about her Chinese-Andalusian world, which was
followed by Andaluchinas por el Mundo, Gazpacho Agridulce 2, El gran Libro de los Niños
extraordinarios and Gente de aquí. She studied in Madrid and graduated in England.

MARGARYTA YAKOVENKO
Margaryta Yakovenko was born in Ukraine in 1992, but at the age of seven she moved to Murcia,
Spain. She is a writer and a journalist specialized in International Politics. She has been an editor and
writer at PlayGround and she currently works at El País. Her first novel, Desencajada, has aroused
extraordinary enthusiasm among readers.

JESSICA ZAFRA
Jessica Zafra is a Filipino fiction writer, columnist, editor, publisher, and former television and radio
show host. Her most popular books are the Twisted series, a collection of her essays as a columnist for
the newspaper Manila Standard Today, as well as from her time as editor and publisher of the
magazine Flip. She currently writes a weekly column for InterAksyon.com. She lives in Manila, where
she is working on her first novel.

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