The power of words comes to Valparaíso with a new edition of the Puerto de Ideas Festival, which celebrates 15 years of experience. More than 40 activities and guests from different parts of the world will meet with the public in conversations, conferences and shows that will address, from multiple disciplines, a wide variety of topics.
Literature will occupy a central place, with the presence of outstanding authors who will reflect on the art of storytelling, the challenges of contemporary writing and the role of the word in our time.
Hernán Díaz, renowned Argentine writer and author of the acclaimed Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Fortuna (2022), will be in charge of opening this edition of Puerto de Ideas in a conversation with the lawyer and columnist Carlos Peña, where he will address the relationship between money, power and truth (Friday, November 7, 6:30 p.m. at the Valparaíso Cultural Park).
The French writer Neige Sinno, author of the shocking Sad Tiger (2024), a work that became a literary phenomenon, will reflect in Narrating Abuse on how personal experiences can reveal broader dynamics of inequality, exclusion and justice, opening a discussion around the relationship between literature, ethics and social transformation.
The French writer Hervé Le Tellier, winner of the 2020 Goncourt Prize with The Anomaly (Seix Barral, 2021), will talk with Eric Goles in Simulated Universes and Literary Doubles, about the intersections between literature, mathematics and speculative fiction.
The Chilean Cynthia Rimsky, recently winner of the Herralde Novel Prize with Clara y confusing, will talk in A Literature in Work, about her creative processes and her view on the art of writing from the everyday.
The Spanish author and podcaster Javier Peña, creator of the successful podcast Grandes Infelices, will participate in the activity The podcast as a novel, where he will explore oral storytelling as a space for living and shared literature.
The French Vanessa Springora, author of Consent, will talk with Eduardo Castillo in Writing as an Act of Reconstruction, addressing how literature can become a means to understand ourselves and remake our personal history.
For their part, the Argentine writer Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, and the Mapuche poet Daniela Catrileo will participate in Writing what matters, a conversation about contemporary Latin American literature as a territory of memory and creativity.
In The Architecture of Affects Ariel Florencia Richards and Rafael Gumucio will review the links between Roberto Matta and Gordon Matta-Clark, revealing how art and architecture can also be ways of constructing affections, memory and reconciliation.
The poet Yanko González will present Thinking with the Fingers where he will show his creative process based on his book Torpedos (2024). Gonzales will talk with the poet and bookseller Sergio Parra, followed by the reading of some of the most significant texts and objects of his work.
All details of the festival, registration and ticket sales are available at puertodeideas.cl.
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