The daily life of violence

ISLA Festival brings together three writers which stories and novels transport us to fictional worlds that reflect our contemporary life through the societies they depict: American, Peruvian and Mexican.

In the ensemble novel La lealtad de los caníbales, Diego Trelles (Peru) paints a heartbreaking yet humorous portrait of Peruvian society, centered around a Lima tavern where betrayal, madness, corruption, abuses, and prejudices walk hand in hand. In Tumbas de agua, Mexican writer Miguel Tapia contrasts two worlds: the wealth and extravagance of illicit businesses and the humility and exploitation of workers in a Mexico that challenges the value system. Meanwhile, Una Mannion, in her novel Tell Me What I Am, narrated by two female voices, unravels a story of domestic violence interwoven with the love and strength of its characters.

Una Mannion was born in Philadelphia and is based in County Sligo Ireland. Her debut novel A Crooked Tree made the Irish bestsellers list, was shortlisted for the Irish Book Awards and the Dalkey Emerging Writer Award and won the Kate O’Brien Prize. Her second novel Tell Me What I Am was shortlisted for the Encore Awards and was the winner of the prestigious Gold Dagger at the CWA Dagger Awards.

Miguel Tapia is a Mexican author. He studied engineering, music, literature and journalism, and has worked in these and other fields in various cities. He is the author of short story collections, novels and essays that have been published in Mexico, Colombia, Argentina, France and Spain. Miguel Tapia holds a Ph.D. in Hispanic American literature and teaches at the University of Paris-Est - Créteil in France.

Diego Trelles Paz is a writer and academic from Perú that holds a degree in Communications, a master's in Aesthetics, and a Ph.D. in Hispanic American Literature. He is the author of short story collections, essays and novels. His works have been translated into French, English, Italian, and Hungarian. His latest novel is La lealtad de los caníbales. He lives in Paris.

Deirdre Kelly is a lecturer in Spanish at Technological University Dublin and holds a Ph.D. in Hispanic Studies from Trinity College Dublin. She is co-editor of the International Journal of Iberian Studies, and is a Board Member and the Electronic Communications Officer of the Association for Contemporary Iberian Studies.

A collaboration of the Instituto Cervantes Dublin with the Embassies of Mexico and Peru, and the suppor of Literature Ireland.

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ISLA Festival reúne a tres escritores que con sus relatos y novelas nos trasladan a unas ficciones en las que reconocemos la vida contemporánea a partir de las sociedades donde se ambientan: la estadounidense, la peruana y la mexicana.

En la novela coral La lealtad de los caníbales, Diego Trelles (Perú) dibuja un retrato desgarrador, no exento de humor, de la sociedad peruana desde el epicentro de una taberna limeña por la que se pasean la traición, la locura, la corrupción, los abusos, o los prejuicios. El escritor mexicano Miguel Tapia nos traslada con al contraste de dos mundos, el de la riqueza y extravagancias de los negocios ilícitos y el de la humildad y abusos de los obreros en un México que pone a prueba el sistema de valores. Por su parte, Una Mannion, en su novela narrada por dos voces femeninas, Tell Me What I Am, va deshilando una historia de violencia doméstica atravesada por el amor y la fuerza de sus personajes.

Una collaboración del Instituto Cervantes Dublín con las embajadas de México y Perú, y el apoyo de Literature Ireland.

Host or Publisher Instituto Cervantes Dublin