Created and conceptualized in collaboration with the bookstore and cultural space mouse cornerfestival Magaluf Extended Literature (FLEM) it reinforces and raises the stakes without losing its substance and intent, making it a celebration of culture, ideal for lovers of art, music and of course literature.
After a successful first raid in 2021 and Organizing a pop-up event in New York FLEN returned to welcome fall last May at the INNSiDE hotel on Meliá Calviá Beach.
FLEM 2022 will bring together a total of 30 participants for three days, from September 30 to October 2, including some of the most relevant voices on the national and international cultural scene. prestigious novelist from the United States Chuck Palahniuk– author of the famous bestselling ‘Fight Club’ – will arrive in Magaluf on his only date in Spain, to introduce the public to your creative process ‘Plantéate esto’, with his private autobiography.
After the success of her previous titles like ‘The Idiot’ and being one of the finalists for the Pulitzer Prize, Elif Batumman, also a special appointment from FLEM to present Random House Literature and their new book, ‘The One or the Other’, to be published this October.
Another big standout is British Caitlin Moran. Novelist, essayist, and activist Moran has a list of titles to her credit, drawing from her own real and fictional experience. They explain what it feels like and the definition of being a woman in these times. The last, ‘More than a woman’, explores middle age and the existential crises it provokes, all from the point of view of the caustic humor that characterizes the author.
FLEM 2022 poster completed by important names like authors Ray Loriga, Marta Sanz, Sebastià Portell, Meryem El Mehdati, Anna Freixas, Pol Guasch and Eugenia Tenenbaum; journalists and writers Carlos del Amor and Jon Sistiaga, illustrators Esther Gili, Amaia Arrazola, Carles GOD and Nívola Uyá, musicians and writers from The Red Room group Joan Miquel Oliver, Abraham Boba, Miquel Serra and Jorge Martí; poets Elvira Sastre, Josep Pedrals and Laura Sam and Marina Garcia, and Espaguetti Monster from the Gente 2020 podcast, along with cartoonist Flavita Banana, who will serve as the festival’s official historian.