is a psychologist by training, an avid reader in several languages, and a bookseller with a background in cultural management. She has worked in the film and pharmaceutical industries as well as the book trade. For eight years, she focused on designing bookshop spaces in Portugal, France, Germany and Spain. She is currently the managing director of Librerías Cálamo. Cálamo has received numerous awards and distinctions, including the Cultural Bookshop Award, the Boixareu Ginesta Award, and Vanity Fair’s Open Bank Award for Best Bookshop in Spain (2023). She has conducted training courses and workshops for booksellers in Guatemala, Mexico and Costa Rica and has worked with book fairs in Frankfurt, Bogota and Guadalajara. She advised the University of Guadalajara (Mexico) on the design and launch of the Carlos Fuentes Bookshop. As part of her work at Librerías Cálamo, she co-directs —alongside Paco Goyanes— the Hay Festival’s Publishing Talent project and the Otra Mirada gathering of Ibero-American independent bookshops and publishers.
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