PROGRAMMATION AZUL

• ONLINE •

SPAIN-CANADA DIGITAL DIALOGUES 2022 – 1. CHARLA CRUZANDO EL CHARCO:  DE ESPAÑA A CANADÁ

Mientras Canadá le pasa la antorcha de País Invitado de Honor en la Frankfurter Buchmesse a España este año, en Blue Met armamos una serie de charlas entre nuestros destacados escritores, editores, y traductores, buscando un acercamiento entre nuestros idiomas, nuestras culturas, y nuestra forma de trabajar la palabra escrita.

As Canada passes the torch of Guest of Honour at the Frankfurter Buchmesse to Spain this year, we prepared a series of talks between some of our finest writers, editors, and translators in our countries, opening a conversation between our languages, our cultures, and our ways of working with the written word. 

DUO _ 45 minutes

Participants: Jorge Carrión, Stephen Henignan
Host: Ingrid Bejerman

FREE / SPANISH

• ONLINE •

SPAIN-CANADA DIGITAL DIALOGUES 2022 – 2. INSCRIBING A LIFE: FACT, FICTION AND THE ART OF THE BIOGRAPHY

As Canada passes the torch of Guest of Honour at the Frankfurter Buchmesse to Spain this year, we prepared a series of talks between some of our finest writers, editors, and translators in our countries, opening a conversation between our languages, our cultures, and our ways of working with the written word. 

Mientras Canadá le pasa la antorcha de País Invitado de Honor en la Frankfurter Buchmesse a España este año, en Blue Met armamos una serie de charlas entre nuestros destacados escritores, editores, y traductores, buscando un acercamiento entre nuestros idiomas, nuestras culturas, y nuestra forma de trabajar la palabra escrita. 

DUO _ 45 minutes

Participants: Rosemary Sullivan, Raquel Martínez-Gómez 
Host: Ingrid Bejerman

FREE / ENGLISH, SPANISH

• EN LIGNE •

SPAIN-CANADA DIGITAL DIALOGUES 2022 – 3. NUESTRAS NUEVAS NARRATIVAS

Alors que le Canada passe à l’Espagne le flambeau du statut de pays à l’honneur à la Foire du livre de Francfort, nous avons préparé une série d’échanges entre écrivains, éditeurs et traducteurs choisis parmi les plus réputés de nos pays respectifs, engageant ainsi une conversation entre les langues, les cultures et notre manière d’interargir avec l’écrit. 

Mientras Canadá le pasa la antorcha de País Invitado de Honor en la Frankfurter Buchmesse a España este año, en Blue Met armamos una serie de charlas entre nuestros destacados escritores, editores, y traductores, buscando un acercamiento entre nuestros idiomas, nuestras culturas, y nuestra forma de trabajar la palabra escrita. 

DUO _ 45 minutes

Participants : Katixa Agirre, Kevin Lambert 
Animatrice : Ingrid Bejerman

GRATUIT / FRANÇAIS, ESPAGNOL

• ONLINE •

SPAIN-CANADA DIGITAL DIALOGUES 2022 – 4. TRANSLATING IN TRANSIT

As Canada passes the torch of Guest of Honour at the Frankfurter Buchmesse to Spain this year, we prepared a series of talks between some of our finest writers, editors, and translators in our countries, opening a conversation between our languages, our cultures, and our ways of working with the written word. 

Mientras Canadá le pasa la antorcha de País Invitado de Honor en la Frankfurter Buchmesse a España este año, en Blue Met armamos una serie de charlas entre nuestros destacados escritores, editores, y traductores, buscando un acercamiento entre nuestros idiomas, nuestras culturas, y nuestra forma de trabajar la palabra escrita. 

DUO _ 45 minutes

Participants: Katia Grubisic, Lawrence Schimel 
Host: Ingrid Bejerman

FREE / ENGLISH, SPANISH

• À L’UNIVERSITÉ McGILL, bâtiment des arts (salle 1041) •

BICENTENÁRIO DAS NOSSAS LETRAS / 200 YEARS OF BRAZILIAN LITERATURE

An invitation to hear the great contemporary Brazilian writer Julián Fuks and Latin American literary expert Cecily Raynor in conversation with journalist Ingrid Bejerman revisiting 200 years of Brazilian literature and talking about the hottest titles and trends of today, followed by a Q&A in Portuguese, English, French, and Spanish.  

PANEL _ 70 minutes

Participants : Cecily Raynor, Julián Fuks 
Animatrice : Ingrid Bejerman 

GRATUIT / FRANÇAIS, ANGLAIS, ESPAGNOL, PORTUGUAIS

• HOTEL 10 (Salle Jardin) •

LOOKING FOR ALICIA : THE UNFINISHED LIFE OF AN ARGENTINIAN REBEL

A conversation about Marc Raboy’s brand-new biography of a radical young idealist, her determination to make a difference in the world, and her disappearance in 1976, revealing the human cost and undying legacy of Argentina’s descent into right-wing madness. 

BOOK LAUNCH _ 60 minutes

Participant: Marc Raboy 
Host: Ingrid Bejerman

FREE / ENGLISH

• HOTEL 10 (Salle Jardin) •

THE WIDE RANGE OF LATIN AMERICAN CREATIVE NONFICTION: A CONVERSATION WITH CARMEN RODRIGUEZ AND JUAN GABRIEL VÁSQUEZ

While Magical Realism used the tone of everyday anecdote to tell incredible things, creative nonfiction takes reality as it is to describe with power and beauty. Chilean-Canadian poet, novelist and journalist Carmen Rodríguez and Colombian novelist Juan Gabriel Vásquez look into the masterworks of journalism as literature and its search of memory, justice, and aesthetic ambition. Followed by Q&A in Spanish. 

PANEL _ 75 minutes

Participants: Carmen Rodríguez, Juan Gabriel Vásquez
Host: Rafael Osío Cabrices

$7 / ENGLISH, SPANISH

• À L’HÔTEL 10 (Salle Jardin) •

MUJER EN PAPEL. MEMORIAS INCONCLUSAS DE RITA MACEDO

Cecilia muestra aspectos íntimos sobre su padre, Carlos Fuentes, al publicar las memorias truncas de su mamá, la actriz Rita Macedo, primera esposa del autor de Aura. (Followed by Q&A also in English and French) 

ENTRETIEN _ 75 minutes

Participante : Cecilia Fuentes Macedo 
Animateur : Martha Bátiz

7 $ / FRANÇAIS, ANGLAIS, ESPAGNOL

• HOTEL 10 (Terrasse) •

TOPO PECOSO/MOLEY MOLEI

PANEL _ 60 minutes

Milagros es una niña que vive en la Ciudad de México y de repente ve su vida  sacudida por el terremoto del 2017. Pero el Topo Pecoso, su peluche y mejor amigo, ¡viene a salvarla! 

Milagros is a little girl living in Mexico City whose life is suddenly shaken by the earthquake in 2017. But Moley Mole, her stuffed animal and best friend, will come to her rescue! 

Participant: David Unger
Host: Cynthia Rodríguez 

FREE / ENGLISH, SPANISH

• HOTEL 10 (Salle St-Laurent) •

FROM RESISTANCE TO OCCUPATION: A CONVERSATION WITH JULIÁN FUKS

Named in The Guardian’s « Best fiction for 2018 », Resistance by Brazil’s Julián Fuks, unfolds as an intimate portrayal of a family in extraordinary circumstances, told from the point of view of the youngest child, offering an examination of identity, family bonds, and the various forms that exile can take. In Occupation (Charco Press, 2021), the author returns to his auto-fictional alter ego Sebastián in a narrative alternating between the writer’s conversations with refugees occupying a building in downtown São Paulo, his father’s sickness, and his wife’s pregnancy.

PANEL _ 75 minutes

Participant: Julián Fuks 
Host: Ingrid Bejerman

$7 / ENGLISH, PORTUGUESE, SPANISH

• À L’HÔTEL 10 (Espace Godin) •

HOMENAJE A CARLOS FUENTES

Un homenaje al gran escritor mexicano Carlos Fuentes, autor de las monumentales novelas Aura, La muerte de Artemio Cruz, Terra Nostra, entre tantas, recordando momentos de su vida y su paso por nuestro festival, en conmemoración de su décimo aniversario luctuoso. 

HOMMAGE _ 75 minutes

Participants : Silvia Lemus de Fuentes, Linda Leith, Alejandro Estivill, Martha Bátiz, Claudio Palomares-Salas
Animatrice : Ingrid Bejerman

7 $ / FRANÇAIS, ESPAGNOL, ANGLAIS

• À L’HÔTEL 10 (Salle St-Laurent) •

THE SOUND OF THINGS FALLING/EL RUIDO DE LAS COSAS AL CAER: JUAN GABRIEL VÁSQUEZ, PREMIO METROPOLIS AZUL 2022 PATROCINADO POR GINNY STIKEMAN

L’écrivain, traducteur et journaliste Juan Gabriel Vásquez figure « parmi les romanciers colombiens les plus ingénieux et les plus érudits » de sa génération d’après The Guardian. Il reçoit le Prix Metropolis Azul 2022 pour l’ensemble de son œuvre. 

El escritor, traductor y periodista Juan Gabriel Vásquez es aclamado « entre los novelistas colombianos más ingeniosos y eruditos » de su generación por The Guardian. Recibe el Premio Metropolis Azul 2022 por el conjunto de su obra. 

REMISE DE PRIX _ 75 minutes

Participant : Juan Gabriel Vásquez
Animatrice : Ingrid Bejerman (avec des commentaires de Gregory McCormick)

10 $ / FRANÇAIS, ANGLAIS, ESPAGNOL

• HOTEL 10 (Terrasse) •

NO STARS IN THE SKY

No Stars in the Sky (House of Anansi) is new collection of hard-hitting and intimate stories by award-winning Mexican Canadian author Martha Bátiz, shining a light on the crises that concern her most: the plight of migrant children along the Mexico–U.S. border, the tragedy of the disappeared in Mexico and Argentina, and the generalized racial and domestic violence that has turned life into a constant struggle for survival. 

BOOK LAUNCH _ 75 minutes

Participant: Martha Bátiz 
Host: Gina Beltrán

FREE / ENGLISH, SPANISH

• HOTEL 10 (Salle Jardin) •

DEFLECTED AUTOBIOGRAPHIES: ON FAMILY AND SEEKING A SENSE OF HOME

Three writers — from United States, from Brazil, from Canada — share a deep connection to Argentina, including a family history of finding refuge in another country and questions that remain unanswered. Julián Fuks, Marc Raboy and Pablo Boczkowski discuss the impact of this sense of displacement on their writing, and their quest to fill in the blanks. 

PANEL _ 75 minutes

Participants: Julián Fuks, Marc Raboy, Pablo Boczkowski 
Host: Ingrid Bejerman

$7 / ENGLISH

• HOTEL 10 (Salle St-Laurent) •

THE JOURNALISM MANIFESTO

Focusing on the relevance of elites, norms and audiences, media scholars Zelizer, Boczkowski and Anderson reveal how these previously integral components of journalism have become outdated in this authoritative manifesto, which outlines that journalism has become decoupled from the dynamics of everyday life in contemporary society and outlines pathways for fixing this essential institution of democracy.  

BOOK LAUNCH _ 90 minutes

Participants: Pablo Boczkowski (Northwestern University), Carrie Rentschler (McGill University)
Host: Ingrid Bejerman 

FREE / ENGLISH