With a new literary festival, the KM America, Barcelona renews its favoritism and admiration for Latin American writers.
KM America will take place from June 16-19, 2022 with the participation of 22 writers from 11 countries.
The guests will discuss contemporary writing in the Americas.
There will also be a theatrical adaptation and a literary route dedicated to Colombian Nobel Prize winner Gabriel García Márquez.
The festival, dedicated to Latin American literature, is organized by Casa Amèrica Catalunya and Biblioteques de Barcelona. Curated by Mexican writer Eduardo Ruiz Sosa.
The event will be attended by writers such as Martín Caparrós, Mónica Ojeda and Ariana Harwicz.
It will be held in two venues: at Casa Amèrica and at the new García Márquez Library in the Sant Martí neighborhood (Barcelona).
KM America Festival: literary integration forever
KM America reduced the kilometer distance between two territories. Distance, in these cases, brings us closer.
It is also another example of the many bridges between Latin America and the Catalan capital.
The festival is a new literary festival that seeks to preserve and strengthen this productive and fertile historical dialogue between the two territories.
There will be round tables and discussions in interview format with the invited writers. There they will talk about “the diversity of trends in the contemporary literary scene, connecting voices from different generations and geographies”.
The novelty is that KM America will present a contemporary Latin American novel as a play. It is “La débil mental” by Argentine writer Ariana Harwicz.
