september, 2020
Event Details
Following the success of the previous installments of Hay Forum Dallas and despite the current pandemic, The Wild Detectives and Hay Festival combine forces again to bring you some of the most interesting literary and cultural discussions happening across North and South America
Join us for these very special online events that you can join just by RSVP in the link below each of the panels
SALMAN RUSHDIE IN CONVERSATION WITH CARMEN BOULLOSA
Venue: Escenario Digital Querétaro
The eminent writer of Midnight’s Children (1981) and The Satanic Verses (1988) presents his most recent novel, Quichotte (2020), a contemporary satire based on Cervantes’ timeless classic. Sam DuChamp, a mediocre novelist, creates the character of Ismail Smile, or “Quichotte”, a US salesman obsessed with television and particularly with one of the stars of the small screen. The character undertakes a journey across the United States together with his imaginary son, Sancho, in search of the object of his love. Meanwhile the author faces up to his own troubles. Salman Rushdie will talk to Carmen Boullosa.
This event will be bilingual and RSVP is required, you can do it here
ALMA GUILLERMOPRIETO IN CONVERSATION WITH JAVIER LAFUENTE
Thursday 3 September 2020, 8.30pm – 9.15pm: Escenario Digital Querétaro
The writer and journalist, Alma Guillermoprieto (Mexico), began her career has a journalist covering the revolutionary movements in Nicaragua and El Salvador in the 1970s and 80s. She has won the MacArthur Award (1995), the 2017 Ortega y Gasset Journalism Prize, and a Princess of Asturias Award for Communication and Humanities (2018). Her latest book, ¿Será que soy feminista? (2020), considers a question that could not be more important in a society that makes invisible, mistreats, rapes and kills women. Guillermoprieto explores Latin America with a focus on the last century’s history of exclusion and violence, and also struggle against sexism and the patriarchy. In conversation with Javier Lafuente.
This event will be in Spanish and RSVP is required, you can do it here
2020 ELECTIONS. THE POWER OF SPANISH IN THE TRUMP ERA. WITH:
MARIA HINOJOSA, GERARDO LISSARDY AND PATRICIA SULBARÁN IN CONVERSATION WITH LILIET HEREDERO
Sunday 6 Septmeber 2020, 8.30pm-9.30pm Venue: Escenario Digital Querétaro
The BBC Mundo journalists, Gerardo Lissardy, New York correspondent, and Patricia Sulbarán, Los Angeles correspondent, talk about what is at stake in November’s election and the key role played by Hispanics. Special guest: María Hinojosa, creator of Latino USA. In conversation with Liliet Heredero, BBC Mundo editor.
This event will be in Spanish and RSVP is required, you can do it here
Want to check more events? Since this edition is digital, you can explore all the events that will be part of Hay Festival Queretaro, with appearances from guests like: Siri Husvedt, Paul Krugman, Mario Vargas Llosa, Valeria Luiselli, Paul Auster, Elena Poniatowska, Gael Garcia Bernal and many more…
Check Hay Queretaro’s full program here
Hay Forum Dallas is made possible with the help of The Mexican Consulate in Dallas, UTD (Center for Translation Studies), UTA (Center for Mexican American Studies), SMU (World Languages and Literature), UNT WGST (Women’s and Gender Studies), UNT (Latina/o and Mexican Studies) and PEN America
ABOUT HAY FESTIVAL
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Hay Festival is a not-for-profit organization that brings readers and writers together to share stories and ideas in sustainable events around the world. The festivals inspire, examine and entertain, inviting participants to imagine the world as it is and as it might be.
Nobel Prize-winners and novelists, scientists and politicians, historians and musicians talk with audiences in a dynamic exchange of ideas. The Festival’s global conversation shares the latest thinking in the arts and sciences with curious audiences live, in print and online. Hay Festival also runs wide programmes of education work supporting coming generations of writers and culturally hungry audiences of all ages.
In 1987, the festival was dreamt up around a kitchen table in Hay. Thirty-one years later, the unique marriage of exacting conversations and entertainment for all ages has travelled to editions in 30 locations, from the historic town of Cartagena in Colombia to the heart of cities in Peru, Mexico, Spain and Denmark. The organization now reaches a global audience of hundreds of thousands every year and continues to grow and innovate, building partnerships and initiatives alongside some of the leading bodies in arts and the media.
Acclaimed author, actor and writer Stephen Fry is President of the organization; Peter Florence is Director; and Caroline Michel, CEO of leading literary and talent agency Peters Fraser + Dunlop, is Chair of the Festival board.
