Colombia Digital 2021

The brilliant journalist and communicator Natalie Haynes (United Kingdom), a great advocate of the classics and contributor to media outlets such as The Times, The Independent, The Guardian and The Observer, is a writer whose work transports us to the ancient world. The author of A Thousand Ships here presents Stone Blind (2024), which explores the story of the fearsome Medusa. Haynes, an authority on the classical world, is the author of six books on the period and has presented a BBC programme on the same subject matter. In conversation with Laura Quintana.

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At its book clubs, Hay Festival Cartagena offers intimate encounters with a selection of festival guests. These are spaces to talk in greater depth about recent work by some of the festival’s participants. At this event, Juan Gómez-Jurado (Spain) will talk to Toni Celia about his book Todo muere, the last part of his acclaimed Reina Roja series, and a long-awaited ending to one of the most read and loved contemporary sagas in the Spanish language.

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Four experts on the classical world will talk to Toni Celia about the lessons we can take from that period, so far off in time, but so influential for Western culture, and whose echoes can still be heard in our legal systems, the philosophical tradition, and in the sciences and arts. Natalie Haynes (United Kingdom) is the author of A Thousand Ships, a reimagination of The Iliad from the viewpoints of its women characters, and Stone Blind; Charlotte Higgins (United Kingdom), Chief Culture Writer at The Guardian, is the author of Greek Myths. A New Retelling, about the influence of ancient Greece on our times; Pablo Montoya (Colombia) is the author of Marco Aurelio y los límites del imperio which portrays the last of the five “good emperors” of Rome; and with John Sellars (United Kingdom), philosopher and the author of books such as Lessons in Stoicism, Epicurus and the Art of Happiness and now Aristotle: Understanding the World’s Greatest Philosopher.

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Greg Clark (United Kingdom) is one of the foremost international experts on urban development and globalisation. Author of many books and over 100 reports on cities, investment, innovation and leadership, Clark has worked on the challenges facing cities, and the strategies involved in their sustainability, evolution and prosperity. Global Cities: A Short History analyses the concept of the global city since antiquity, including classic metropolis such as Athens and Rome, as well as the epicentres of our globalised world such as New York, London and Singapore, while also touching on themes such as the economy, war, migration and technology. In conversation with Sergio Díaz-Granados.

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We talk literature and journalism, and about the links between the two with Lyonel Trouillot (Haiti) a committed novelist, poet and intellectual, one of the most outstanding representatives of global French-language literature, as well as a journalist and lecturer in French and Creole literatures at the University of Port-au-Prince. In conversation with Felipe Restrepo Pombo.

Simultaneous interpretation from English-French to Spanish