The Convent of Santo Domingo de Teguise hosted last weekend four conversations with Julio Fajardo Herrero, Acoidán Méndez, Alicia Llarena, and Natacha G. Mendoza, in an initiative that opens a new space for reflection on literary creation in the islands.
Organized by the Cultural Association Picón Narrativas, it has the support of the Tías City Council, the Publications Service of the Cabildo de Lanzarote, the Yaiza, Arrecife, and Teguise City Councils, the Lanzarote Centers of Art, Culture, and Tourism (CACT), and Caja7.
The IV Lanzarote Literature Festival has incorporated a new proposal into its program this year: Island Combustion. Literary Conversations in Teguise, a space conceived to bring together Canarian writers and authors around literature, their creative processes, and the different perspectives from which stories are constructed.
During November 7 and 8, the Convent of Santo Domingo hosted four conversations with writers Julio Fajardo Herrero, Acoidán Méndez, and Alicia Llarena, which culminated in a joint panel moderated by Natacha G. Mendoza. Throughout the sessions, the program addressed issues such as the construction of a narrative voice, the relationship between territory and writing, displacements, and the perspectives from which the world is told, as well as the decisions and processes that accompany the creation of a work.
One of the meetings was dedicated to Mercedes Pinto, a fundamental figure in Canarian literature whose career was marked by writing, life, and exile. From the
hand of Alicia Llarena, poet, essayist, and professor of Hispanic American Literature at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, the conversation allowed for an approach to the work of an author whose recovery and dissemination continues to be relevant for understanding the literary history of the islands.
With this initiative, the FDLL expands its program and opens a specific space to explore the richness and diversity of literary creation linked to the Canary Islands, from perspectives that transcend the usual discourses on identity and insularity.
The festival continues: Laura Ferrero and Manuel Vilas, next dates in Yaiza
After this first meeting of collective reflection on Canarian literature, the Lanzarote Literature Festival will continue its program with two prominent names in contemporary narrative: Laura Ferrero and Manuel Vilas.
On November 25, at 7:30 p.m., the writer, journalist, and screenwriter Laura Ferrero will arrive at the Casa Benito Pérez Armas in Yaiza with "La vida se entiende escribiendo" (Life is understood by writing).
Author of titles such as "Piscinas vacías" (Empty Pools), "La gente no existe" (People Don't Exist), and "Los astronautas" (The Astronauts), Ferrero will discuss how writing allows us to revisit what we have lived and explore issues
such as memory, relationships, and identity.
On December 2, also at the Casa Benito Pérez Armas, it will be the turn of Manuel Vilas, a poet and narrator born in Barbastro, whose work has achieved wide international recognition. Author of "Ordesa," "Alegría" (Joy), and "Nosotros" (Us) (Nadal Prize 2023), he will headline the event "La belleza de lo que permanece" (The Beauty of What Remains), in which he will address the relationship between memory, family, and the passage of time, and literature's capacity to preserve what is part of our lives.
The event with Pola Oloixarac will be on December 15
Furthermore, the event with the Argentine writer Pola Oloixarac, initially scheduled for November, has changed its date and will finally take place on December 15, at 7:30 p.m., at the El Fondeadero Civic Center in Puerto del Carmen. The author of "Las teorías salvajes" (Wild Theories) and "Mona" will discuss literature, the internet, algorithms, desire, and new ways of constructing identity in a hyperconnected world.
Registration
All activities of the Lanzarote Literature Festival are free, but require prior registration through the festival's official website (www.fdll.es). The FDLL also has an Instagram profile (@festivaldeliteraturalanzarote) and a WhatsApp channel where updated news is communicated.
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Sponsorship
The IV Lanzarote Literature Festival is organized by the Cultural Association Picón Narrativas and has the support of the city councils of Tías, Teguise, Yaiza, and Arrecife, the Publications Service of the Cabildo de Lanzarote, the Art, Culture, and Tourism Centers of Lanzarote (CACT), and CajaSiete.
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