Hay Festival Querétaro runs September 1 to 4

Hay Festival Querétaro runs September 1 to 4 and is the first of the three international editions of the Wales-based annual Hay Festival to be involved in a new association with National Public Radio‘s (NPR) Spanish-language Radio Ambulante series of podcasts.

In addition to seeing presentations of that programming onstage, the plans for the Querétaro festival call for at least 145 speakers to appear, representing 19 countries in a format that’s to have in-person and online events across four days.

Marquee names announced for the show include:

Wole Soyinka
Paul Muldoon
Leïla Slimani
Rosa Montero
Lucía Lijtmaer
Jesús Carrasco
Bibiana Candia
Viet Thanh Nguyen
Vivian Gornick
Jean-Baptiste del Amo
Wilfried N’Sondé
Dolores Reyes
Felipe Restrepo Pombo
Jeremias Gamboa
Horacio Castellanos Moya del Salvador
Guillermo Fadanelli
Gisela Leal
Emiliano Monge
Mónica Lavín
Gonzalo Celorio
Pedro Ánge Palou
Alma Delia Murillo
Clyo Mendoza
Paola Llamas Dinero
Alberto Villarreal
Nadia Ñuu Savi
Horacio Warpola
Xel-ha López Méndez
Andrés Cota Hiriart

Among writers expected to speak on current affairs are:

♦  Yásnaya Elena Aguilar, Emma Graham-Harrison, and Marta Peirano on issues of  equality
♦  Carole Cadwalladr on press freedom
♦  Tawakkol Karman on women’s rights in the Middle East
♦  Caitlin Moran More Than a Woman
♦  Lucía Litjmaer and activist Dahlia de la Cerda on gender equality

Various elements of history will be addressed by:

♦  Natalie Haynes on feminist retellings of Greek myths
♦  Juan Tallón presents Obra Maestra
♦  Francois Hartog with a lecture on history and time
♦  The Hay’s Untold Microcosms anthology, in collaboration with the British Museum with a conversation between Yasnaya Elena Aguilar, Cristina Rivera Garza, Dolores Reyes, and Joseph Zárate

Performance programming includes:

♦  Jarvis Cocker on music and new poetry
♦  Pianist Jorge Viladoms and Luz de Luna
♦  A theatrical event with the Salvadoran women La Cachada