Opening these days Segovia An English miracle triumphant in Spanish, the Hay Festival. It brings together writers from different literary backgrounds, including Anglo-Saxon, Latin American, Spanish… People from all over attend its events, which do not stop on the scheduled days; In addition, readers’ relationship with literary celebrations is unusual in history, as they pay to listen to writers and different participants in different parts of this now legendary festival. Writers, but also politicians, artists from other disciplines, heroes of international public life. But especially writers.
Years ago, people went to Segovia for its museums, aqueducts, climate and also for its legendary gastronomy. For more than two decades people have been going there, first and foremost, for Hay, who won the award in 2020. Princess of Asturias Award for Communication and Humanities.
It’s a British miracle Born in Wales 36 years ago, promoted by Peter Florence and is now helmed by a Madrid native of Canarian descent in Hay’s inaugural space and at venues across Latin America. Cristina Fuentes La Roche. This straw invented by the British to bring together writers from all over the worldbut especially to the Anglo-Saxons, it also works in Segovia, in which case it is governed Sheila Cremaschi (Argentina de Neuquen), its annual festival continues since this Thursday. We spoke to the two of them to delve into the reasons for their success.
The exact idea that started this was to get people to discuss ideas. It soon also became a showcase for literary dissemination (and controversy). Cristina Fuentes says that the model born in Wales soon became very attractive to Latin American writers, so a path was born in which Segovia also participated, and the festival continues even though it has just ended. MexicanIt is also held annually queretaro. which will soon be celebrated every year Cartagena de Indias (Colombia) and is organized in the portfolio as follows: arequipahomeland of Peru Mario Vargas Llosa.
It is not a circus that establishes its business wherever it opens, because with these enterprises located in different parts of the three worlds, Spaniards, Latin Americans and Hispanics, Hay has established foundations and implemented synergies to ensure that any of its headquarters is a completely local enterprise, not a foreign enterprise.. In this way, everything is related to the roots, literature and thought of the place where it is realized, says Cristina Fuentes. “Every place has a different model.” This is not the result of a series of innovations, but of a cultural, literary program that everywhere takes its model from the Anglo-Saxon origin of events.
It was Mexican Carlos Fuentes the person who tells them that the place where their friends live is Cartagena de Indias in Latin America gabriel garcia marquezThe right place to start Hay’s Latin American transplant. “He was a regular at the Welsh festival, and he was right: Cartagena is the most beautiful city on the Caribbean Sea, in a country that needed these conversations at that time and always.” And in 2006 the British Hay was already Caribbean.
Hay’s journey continued in Segovia. Twenty years ago Cremaschi was offered the opportunity to start this, and that offer is still valid. It was impossible to imagine anyone paying to participate in a literary dialogue in Spain or America.Something that was practiced without hesitation in the Anglo-Saxon world. This miracle also happened in the capital of Castile. “It wasn’t difficult and it seemed impossible,” says Sheila.
He attributes the rapid implementation of the idea to the pressure he found in the mayor at the time. Clara Lucero. They agreed, and it was the People’s Party and the Socialist Party who thought it was possible: they both believed it was a good project for Segovia. “The festivals in Wales and Cartagena had already been filmed; Doing this here represented a well-experienced effort.”
Cremaschi says that they started with unusual strength at the time, and now they start with enviable strength. Naturally, there were great personalities as well as Spanish and Latin American writers at these festivals. Martin Amis and Nobel Doris Lessing… It was successful, and it is still successful. I ask him the reasons for the miracle. Like Cristina Fuentes, she thinks that the opportunity to bring together writers from England and the Hispanic shores is extraordinary and that it happens every day now, and that’s why people come here “because it’s worth listening to what’s being said, it’s attractive.” .
Regarding the mixture of languages and cultures, books and origins, he says, “Colombian Laura Restrepo warned me as soon as I arrived here. He told me that Hispanics and Hispanic Americans know English writers better and know little about their Latin American counterparts.”. This distance has become shorter. The Segovia pressure is also an important symptom of this result. british miracle What does Hay mean?
There are bigger names these days that are either very well known or not yet known. Here are some IDs so you know what you can find in the ancient aqueduct capital: Andrea Marcolongo, Martha Robles, Felix Valdivieso, Jesse Norman (while chatting with Martin Ivens), Carlos Franganillo (while chatting with Diego Alcazar), Rosa Montero (with Myriam Chirousse And Isabelle Bereneronand in another conversation with the editor Ana Gavin), Ray Loriga (with Carlos Zanon And Luis Alemany), John Maeda (an artificial intelligence genius), Juan Carlos Galindo (His novel was born in Segovia) hontoria its roots are in these lands Berna González Port), Javier Cercas (with Vicente Valles) anyone Fernando Trueba with Javier Mariscal (while chatting with Pepa Blanes), among others.
Going to Segovia has always been a great attraction in life. For twenty years this trip here, as in Wales and Latin America, has had great literary appeal and, thanks to the English miracle, can now be enjoyed for money.