The main European and Latin American conferences return this fall after the hiatus due to the pandemic, with a new hybrid DNA. The Madrid fair is already preparing its booths in the Retiro Park, and will be held with reduced capacity and the participation of a thousand writers.

Limited capacity, hybrid formats that combine face-to-face activities with other digital ones and decentralization in different spaces such as bookstores, libraries and cultural centers. It is the new DNA of the fairs, festivals and meetings around books imposed by the pandemic. The health context forced the major European and Latin American events that usually take place in spring to be postponed, so many will be concentrated in the coming weeks.

This Wednesday, for example, the Hay Festival begins at its headquarters in Querétaro (Mexico) and the stands are already being set up in the Retiro Park for the one in Madrid, which will take place from September 10th to 26th. The books will be the protagonists, but also the writers: Svetlana Alexiévich, Mario Vargas Llosa, JM Le Clézio, Sergio Ramírez, Claudia Piñeiro, Rosa Montero, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Darío Jaramillo and Mircea Cartarescu are some of the authors from all over the world who will be involved to give impulse to reading in this new time.

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