The EÑe Festival, considered as the great festival of literature in Spanish, will be held for the first time in Panama, sponsored by the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID) and the participation of some 30 authors from four countries, said a cultural resource.
The Cultural Center of Spain said in a statement that the festival has been presented before in Montevideo (Uruguay), Lima (Peru) and Buenos Aires (Argentina).
"This time Panama is the chosen country, and its capital the city that will become the great feast of reading, books and readers," from December 4th to December 6th, said the Center, which will host the activity.
About thirty authors will gather at a festival "very focused this time on the world of the story, as is the genre par excellence in Panama, the most widespread and the most cultivated by the authors of the country".
Enrique Jaramillo Levi, an authority on the subject, also a writer and author of nearly a dozen anthologies on the Panamanian and Latin American story will participate," the Center says.
In addition, Rosa Maria Britton, Danae Brugiati Peter Crenes, Ernesto Endara, Carolina Fonseca, Ramon Francisco Jurado, Osvaldo Reyes, Luis Pulido Ritter, Melanie Taylor and Carlos Wynter are among the writers participants.
Among the storytellers, it adds, “we will feature the voices of Lucy Cristina Chau, Salvador Medina and Manuel Orestes Nieto, and a sample of oral narration by Carlos Fong".
Colombian Juan Cardenas, and Argentinian Selva Almada and Spanish José María Merino, Almudena Grandes, Juan Pedro Aparicio and Luis García Montero will join to their Panamanian counterparts.
Merino and Aparicio held, among other acts, the so-called "filandón" an old Leon habit of telling stories by the fireside on cold winter nights, while Luis García Montero recite his new poems and Almudena Grandes talk with other Panamanians narrators and Latin America, the source details.
According to the Cultural Center of Spain in addition to the purely literary events such as conferences, lectures and presentations, there will be readings, workshops, concerts, children's programming and even a literary taste.
Source: Caribbean News Digital
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