The Hacienda Santa Cruz will host the second edition of the festival in the municipality on September 10 and 11, with free entry. Ten authors will discuss literature, journalism, music, and creativity.
La Rinconada will once again serve as the Spanish venue for the Centroamérica Cuenta festival, which for the second consecutive year will bring a literary programme of Ibero-American reach to the municipality. The event will take place on September 10 and 11 at the Hacienda Santa Cruz, with free entry until capacity is reached.
The platform, founded in 2013 by Nicaraguan writer and Cervantes Prize winner Sergio Ramírez, returns to La Rinconada after the Town Hall recognised the author in 2024 with the Premio Factoría Creativa de las Letras Iberoamericanas. This edition will feature ten authors who will address topics such as language and literature, music and poetry, or journalism and justice.
In addition to La Rinconada, the festival will also take place in Madrid and Barcelona. The programme for the Seville municipality includes three discussion panels and a meeting with authors, aiming to strengthen the cultural bond between Ibero-America and Spain.
The Deputy Mayor and municipal head of Culture, Raquel Vega, argued during the presentation that hosting this event "consolidates La Rinconada and the Hacienda Santa Cruz as a benchmark for Spanish literature and a hub for global critical thought."
"Claiming La Rinconada as a true City of Books is to strengthen a cutting-edge public policy that places literature and creation at the heart of municipal development," Vega stated.
Writer and journalist Fernando Iwasaki, a member of the Council of Letters of La Rinconada and one of the advocates for the festival's presence in the municipality, revealed that the three sessions will focus on "language and irony, music and poetry, and justice and journalism."
"Behind all these dialogues, we will hear the murmur of the struggle between the power of words and the power of authoritarianism," Iwasaki added.
The first panel, titled 'Literature, Irony and Language: A Grammar of the World', will begin on September 10 at 18:15 and will feature Professor Lola Pons from the University of Seville and Costa Rican writer Daniel Quirós, moderated by Iwasaki himself. A second session is scheduled for 19:10, and the programme will be completed the following day with new dialogues.
Entry will be free until the capacity of the Hacienda Santa Cruz is filled, a space that will become a meeting point for readers, students, and cultural professionals over the two days.
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