READ Madrid. Festival of Books and Ideas

is a journalist and researcher. She holds a degree in Journalism from Pompeu Fabra University and a PhD in Anthropology from the University of Barcelona. She coordinates the Feminisms section at ctxt.es, is part of the editorial collective of Zona de Estrategia, and develops her research within critical thought spaces linked to social movements, such as the Fundación de los Comunes. Her most recent books are Incels, Gymbros, Cryptobros and Other Antifeminist Species (Escritos Contextarios, 2025) and Gender Wars: The Sexual Politics of the Radical Right (Katakrak, 2025).

is a writer and translator born in Gijón. They have spent most of their career in London, and their work has appeared in independent publishers such as Dostoyevsky Wannabe and Pilot Press. Since returning to Spain, they have collaborated with various publications, organized reading clubs, and taken part in performances and panel discussions. They have translated the experimental novel Playa Placer (Cielo Santo, 2025) by Helen Palmer. Their first book in Spanish, Cartografías tan incompletas, a science fiction reinterpretation of Invisible Cities, has been published by La Niña Azul.

holds a PhD in Philosophy from the Autonomous University of Madrid, teaches at the Catholic University of Chile, and has been a visiting professor at various universities in Latin America, Europe, and the United States. She directs the network Populism, Republicanism and Global Crisis and is a member of the International Consortium of Critical Theory Programs, led by Judith Butler. She is the author of several books, including Republic of Care (Herder, 2024), Seven Essays on Populism (Polity, 2021), and Mediations of the Sensible (FCE, 2017).

is a writer, workshop facilitator, and feminist activist. She is the author of Reservoir Bitches (2022), Desde los zulos (2023), and Medea me cantó un corrido (2024), all published by Editorial Sexto Piso. Her work has been translated into ten languages and has received international recognition: she was longlisted for the International Booker Prize, shortlisted for the 2023 Ribera del Duero Prize and the 2024 Les Inrockuptibles Prize, and the translation of Reservoir Bitches won the PEN Translation Prize. She is also the recipient of the National Young Short Story Prize Comala (2019) and the Letras de la Memoria Prize (2009). She is co-founder of Morras Help Morras, an anti-racist, trans-inclusive feminist collective.

is a writer and translator whose work moves between narrative and poetry. He holds a degree in Hispanic Philology from the University of Granada and a Master’s in Latin American Studies from the Autonomous University of Madrid. He has published the novels Living Things (2018), The Tree to Come (2023), and What Is Missing (2025), as well as the poetry collection The Remains (2022), which won the El Ojo Crítico Poetry Prize. He was selected by Granta as one of the twenty-five best Spanish-language writers.

is a writer and columnist. She has published the essay Utopia Is Not an Island (2020) and the horror novel Carcoma (2021), which was nominated for the National Book Award (2024), has been translated into seventeen languages, and is currently being adapted for film and theatre. She has also received the Finestres and Montserrat Roig fellowships.

is a poet, philologist, and professor of Spanish Language and Literature. Her works include El pájaro mudo (La Palma, 1990; Ciudad de Santa Cruz de la Palma Prize), La marca de los potros (2004; Juan Ramón Jiménez Hispano-American Prize), Casa pechada (2006; Esquío Poetry Prize), Cativa en su lughar (Progresele, 2013), and CO CO CO U (La Uña Rota, 2017). In 2025, La Uña Rota reissued Casa pechada / Cativa en su lughar.

is an artist, curator, researcher, and editor. He has worked as an artist since 1985 and was a founding member of the collective Juan del Campo (1986–1993). Since the late 1990s, his work has been structured around two major projects: Archivo F.X., focused on images and iconoclasm, and Máquina P.H., on flamenco and popular culture. He was part of UNIA arteypensamiento and of the Platform for Reflection on Cultural Policies (PRPC) in Seville. He is the founder of pie.fmc (Independent Platform for Modern and Contemporary Flamenco Studies). His publications include The Split Eye: Flamenco, Mass Culture and the Avant-Garde (Athenaica, 2016) and Exaltation of Vision (Mudito & Co). In 2021, the Museo Reina Sofía presented his retrospective exhibition Máquinas de trovar.

is a poet, philosopher, and Professor of Art Theory at the University of Salamanca. In the field of cultural criticism, he has published At the Limits of the Possible (2018), Decaffeinated High Culture (2019), and A Place Without Limits (2022), all with Akal. More recently, he has written The Only Truly Alien Planet Is Earth: J. G. Ballard, A User’s Guide to Disaster (Akal, 2025), the novel Barrio Venecia (Lengua de Trapo, 2023), and the poetry collection Of Pale Things (La Bella Varsovia, 2025), selected among the ten best poetry books of the year by El Cultural.

is a journalist and writer. She holds a degree in Journalism from the Complutense University of Madrid and is a specialist in the Middle East from the National University of Distance Education (UNED). Throughout her career, she has covered conflicts such as the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the Arab uprisings from Egypt, the Palestinian territories, Afghanistan, Syria, and the refugee crisis. She is the author of books such as A Wet Man Is Not Afraid of the Rain: Voices from the Middle East (Debate, 2009) and I Die Today: The Uprisings in the Arab World (Debate, 2012). She is co-founder of eldiario.es.

is a labour lawyer, activist, and Roma mestiza. She holds a law degree from the University of Seville and a Master’s in Human Rights, Interculturality, and Development from Pablo de Olavide University. She practices law with the Seville Bar Association and is a member of the Andalusian Workers’ Union. Co-founder of the Association of Andalusian Roma Women Graduates (AMURADI), she gained public visibility through the struggles of Moroccan strawberry pickers in Huelva (2019). She is the author of The Roma People Against the World-System: Reflections from Feminist and Anti-Capitalist Activism (Akal, 2020).

is the Director of Studies at the Museo Reina Sofía.

is a poet. He has published Peachtree City (Visor, 2021; XXXIII Loewe Prize for Young Creation), Cerezas sobre la muerte (La Bella Varsovia, 2022; National Youth Prize 2023), Tiempos mágicos (La Bella Varsovia, 2024), and Con e de curcuspín (Anagrama, 2025). He hosted the first two seasons of the TV program Un país para leerlo on RTVE’s La 2 and is a regular radio contributor. 

is a playwright and stage director. Since 2008, she has been working on mediation projects related to childhood, youth, accessibility, and diverse bodies. In 2021, she founded the online and itinerant school El Palomar de Jana Pacheco, a platform for the development of performative projects and mediation initiatives connected to specific territories. It is also a cultural project through which she supports creative processes and fosters the artistic careers of stage creators.

is a flamenco singer, performer, and activist. His practice draws on traditional flamenco singing, intersecting it with dissident texts, queer memory, and gestures of poetic insurrection. He removes his first surname as a symbolic act: singing from the matriarchy. Together with Toni Martín, he forms RomeroMartín, a sound project that connects flamenco and electronic music through texts by Pedro Lemebel and Miguel Benlloch. In 2022, he premiered the musical project Yeli Yeli at the Seville Flamenco Biennial, later presented at Conde Duque, Sadler’s Wells, and Europalia. In 2023, he participated in Coronada y el toro by Francisco Nieva at Teatro Español.

is a journalist and essayist, the daughter of Algerian immigrants in France. She studied Literature in Lille, Philosophy in Nice, and Journalism in Bordeaux. Known as the host of the program Paroles d’Honneur and associated with the anti-racist and decolonial movement Indigènes de la République, her first book, Rester barbare (La Fabrique, 2022), established her as a key voice in French decolonial thought. In 2024, she was awarded a residency at the Académie de France in Rome – Villa Medici to write her first novel.