Hay Festival has today announced the full programme for its tenth edition in Arequipa, Peru, taking place 7–10 November 2024.
Explore the full programme and book events now at hayfestival.org/arequipa
Launching the best new fiction and non-fiction, while engaging with the world’s biggest challenges, the programme crosses borders with Nobel laureates, award-winning writers and journalists, global policy makers and innovators in conversations and activities.
More than 100 artists from 12 countries feature in the programme, including Nobel Prize winners Abdulrazak Gurnah and Carlos Umaña; plus writers Javier Moro, Irene Vallejo, Pablo Vierci, Liliana Colanzi, Carlos Bardem, Clare Pollard, Jean Baptiste del Amo, Ekaitz Cancela, Renata Flores, Hajma Ahsan, Charles Walker, Agustina Bazterrica, Liliana Colanzi, Zaraí Toledo, Leontxo García; and more.
Major Hay Festival Global projects, including the South to South conversations, Lviv BookForum collaboration and Eccles Institute partnerships, feature across the programme, forging essential global connections across borders.
Outreach and education programmes across the region, including Hay Festival Joven for young people, plus Hay Festival Communitario in communities and Socabaya Prison, open access to Festival inspiration more widely, while some sessions will be broadcast live online, maintaining Hay Festival Global’s commitment to digital accessibility.
To celebrate the event’s tenth edition, a special anthology of conversations is being published in Spanish to coincide with the event, developed in partnership with Fondo de Cultura Económica and Fundacion BBVa.
Alongside this, the sixth edition of Hay Festival Forum Moquegua will take place 6 November as writers and readers gather for eight pop-up events aimed at widening access to the Festival.
Hay Festival CEO Julie Finch said:
“We celebrate 10 years of Hay Festival Arequipa with a fresh programme of new voices, perspectives and expertise to look forward. At a time of huge challenges for communities all across the world, artists, thinkers and dreamers convene with audiences in Peru to offer exciting solutions, and a boost of hope. Our events in Arequipa and Moquegua are open to everyone and we look forward to presenting a world of different perspectives.”
Hay Festival international director Cristina Fuentes La Roche said:
“With two Novel laureates, great writers, award-winning innovators, and an engaged and active audience, Hay Festival Arequipa 2024 is ready to change the world, offering a new space to think big. In this 10th edition of the festival, we are particularly grateful to our artists, partners and supports who make this happen. See you soon!”
The programme in detail
Activism leads this year’s programme with two Nobel laureates centre-stage: Nobel Peace Prize-winner Carlos Umaña talks environmentalism and the need to eradicate nuclear weapons in the world, while Nobel Literature Prize winner Abdulrazak Gurnah explores exile, migration, identity and the effects of colonialism.
Great world literature is showcased as renowned writers share new work, including Irene Vallejo (El infinito en un junco: la invención de los libros en el mundo antigua), Javier Moro (Nos queremos muertos), Gemma Ruiz Palà (Sobre nuestras madres), Iban Zaldua (A ocultas), Karima Ziali (Una oración sin dios), Clare Pollard (Delphi), Agustina Bazterrica (Las Indignas), Colombe Schneck (The Paris Trilogy), Liliana Colanzi (Ustedes luminosan en lo oscuro), and more alongside prominent Peruvian writers María José Caro, Giacomo Roncagliolo, Gabriela Wiener, Guillermo Niño de Guzmán, Susane Noltenius, Juan Manuel Robles, Dina Ananco Ahuananchi, Oswaldo Chanove, Rocío Silva Santisteban, Hugo Coya, Andrea Ortiz de Zeballos and Karina Pacheco.
Politics and current affairs come under the spotlight in debates with writers Carlos Bardem and Hugo Coya on corruption; lawyer Philippe Sands on social justice; novelists Randa Jarrar and Hari Kunzru explore identity and diaspora; and writer Edmundo Paz Soldán reimagines modern history.
The meaning of family is explored and generational divides interrogated as novelist Jean Baptiste del Amo shares The Son of Man; director, screenwriter and writer María Larrea presents Los de Bilbao nacen donde queremos; Fabiola Hablützel explores the meaning of family and identity linked to origins and nationality; while Pablo Vierci shares La sociedad de la nieve.
The latest ideas in science, tech and the climate crisis take centre-stage in conversations with Alessandro Maccarrone on The Infinite Pleasure of Mathematics; Stefano Varese on the Amazon region; Xabier Díaz de Cerio on Peru’s climate opportunities; Catherine Bréchignac on the relationship between science and politics; while Ekaitz Cancela Rodríguez, Hamja Ahsan and Gonzalo Zegarra explore storytelling in the digital world.
Education’s role in preserving democracies comes to the fore in discussions featuring sociologist Patricia Salas,Kukama activist Maritza Ramírez, and journalist Serge Barbet. Meanwhile, member of the UNESCO International Commission for the Futures of Education Elisa Guerra will review the role of artificial intelligence in schools.
Peru today comes into focus in conversations with economists, journalists and historians including Natalia Sobrevilla, Marcel Velásquez and Farid Kahhat on legacy and memory; Diego Enrique Osorno, Jonathan Castro, Américo Zambrano Romero and Julio Villanueva Chang on the media; plus Roberto Chang, Zarai Toledo and Carlos Paredes Lanatta offer creative solutions to the country’s current economic challenges.
Audiences are invited to push creative boundaries in events and workshops with chef Waldir Maqqe; filmmakers Judith Vélez, Enrica Pérez, Lucho Llosa, and Felipe Gálvez; art curator and writer Alfredo Villar; singer-songwriter Renata Flores; the UNSA Symphony Orchestra with Christophe Talmont; illustrators Sheila Alvarado and Marisa Godínez; artists Christian Bendayán and Juan Carlos Belón; playwrights Armando Punzo and Rossella Menna; content creator Alessandra Yupanqui; chess players Leonxto García and Julio Ernesto Granda; podcasters Astrid Madimba and Chinni Ukata; athlete Sabas Coban; and historian Charles Walker.
Events for young people and families feature inspiring creatives including Patricia del Río, Cécile Blouin and Bruno Pinasco; plus curators Cecilia Pardo and Patricia Villanueva.