For the eleventh consecutive year, it takes place in el Círculo de Bellas Artes The Eñe Festival, a great literary celebration that fosters encounters and exchanges between national and international writers, editors, and readers, in diverse spaces and forms, thus giving prominence to literary works. 

This year, 2019, we are pleased to have the writer Sergio Del Molino as the festival's literary director. Through colloquiums, conferences, performances, workshops, and a wide range of activities featuring everyone from established figures to emerging talents, this festival aims to be a space for learning, dialogue, and debate, serving as a meeting point for writers, readers, and culture enthusiasts in general.

Among many other authors, this year's participants include Javier Cercas, Leila Guerrero, Juan José Millás, Manuel Vilas, Elvira Lindo, Antonio Muñoz Molina, Marta Sanz, Héctor Abad Faciolince, Elvira Sastre, Paula Ortiz, Karina Sainz Borgo, Darío Adanti, Paula Bonet, Manuel Jabois, Carlos Alsina, Edurne Portela, Sabina Urraca, Juan Carlos Ortega …

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Friday November 15

7:00 PM | FERNANDO DE ROJAS THEATRE
Lindo and Muñoz Molina: a conversation
Elvira Lindo, Antonio Muñoz Molina and Sergio del Molino

7:30 PM | HALL OF COLUMNS
Between the curtains: writings against modesty
María Moreno, Margarita Leoz and Rodrigo Muñoz Avia
Moderator: Luis Alemany

7:30 PM | BALLROOM
Write something to yourself
Sabina Urraca

7:00 PM | FERNANDO DE ROJAS THEATRE
Novels against imagination
Miguel Ángel Hernández Navarro, Adolfo García Ortega and David Toscana
Moderator: Laura Barrachina

7:30 PM | HALL OF COLUMNS
Mexican Spanish
Luis Jorge Boone, Fernanda Melchor and Jorge Valdés Díaz Vélez
Moderator: Jorge F. Hernández

7:00 PM | FERNANDO DE ROJAS THEATRE
The incessant monologue: the enduring relevance of column writing
Luz Sánchez-Mellado, Manuel Jabois and Leila Guerriero
Moderated by: Jesús Ruiz Mantilla (Event organized in collaboration with El País)

7:30 PM | BALLROOM
Open your mouth and say what we have to say.
Paula Bonet, Lara Moreno and Dani Llamas

7:00 PM | FERNANDO DE ROJAS THEATRE
General relativity
Juan Carlos Ortega

Saturday November 16

7:00 PM | FERNANDO DE ROJAS THEATRE
Telling what no one wants to know: violence and literature
Martín Caparrós, Edurne Portela and Carlos Velázquez
Moderator: Eva Cruz

12:00 PM | VALLE INCLÁN HALL
CHILDREN'S WORKSHOP. FROM 6 TO 9 YEARS OLD  *Sold out*
The Adventure of Learning About Spaces. What if we don't write it down and draw it? Does it not exist?
Rebeca Barrón
(Event organized thanks to the sponsorship of the Repsol Foundation)

7:30 PM | BALLROOM
Holidays in Babia
Miguel Espigado

7:00 PM | FERNANDO DE ROJAS THEATRE
The city and its surroundings
Marta Sanz, Jacobo Armero and Luis Jorge Boone
Moderator: Valerio Rocco Lozano

7:00 PM | FERNANDO DE ROJAS THEATRE
Believe Me: Stories from Radio and Literature
Carlos Alsina and Karina Sainz Borgo

7:30 PM | HALL OF COLUMNS
The mothers who gave birth to us
Nuria Labari, Iguázel Elhombre and Lea Vélez
Moderator: Silvia Nanclares

7:30 PM | BALLROOM
Foreigners, emigrants and travelers in popular song
Fidel Moreno

7:00 PM | FERNANDO DE ROJAS THEATRE
The nagging as one of the fine arts
Juan Gómez Jurado, Rodrigo Cortés and Arturo González-Campos

7:30 PM | BALLROOM
Brazil in comic strips. Chronicle and comedy of a country.
Adão Iturrusgarai and María Martín

7:30 PM | HALL OF COLUMNS
A space in which to continue growing
Tetuán Chamber of Social Action through Music
(Event organized thanks to the sponsorship of the Repsol Foundation)

7:30 PM | BALLROOM
Furious and topical polypoetry
The Dangers

7:00 PM | FERNANDO DE ROJAS THEATRE
Eñe Award
Javier Cercas and Sergio del Molino

19:45 PM | HALL OF COLUMNS
Photo-poem collection. From Joan Brossa to contemporary young poetry (including Chema Madoz)
Angela Segovia and Maria Cabrera

7:30 PM | BALLROOM
Rostros
Nuria Figueras
(Event organized thanks to the sponsorship of the Repsol Foundation)

7:30 PM | HALL OF COLUMNS
Towards the Apocalypse or towards Arcadia? Technology, posthumanism and culture in a future that is already the present
Luisgé Martín, Marta García Aller and Ramón del Castillo
Moderator: Daniel Arjona

7:00 PM | FERNANDO DE ROJAS THEATRE
The family is fine, thank you.
Juan José Millás and Manuel Vilas
Moderator: Berna González Harbor
(Event organized in collaboration with El País)

7:30 PM | BALLROOM
Return routes
Hasier Larretxea, Patxi Larretxea, Rosario Gortari and Zuri Negrín

7:30 PM | HALL OF COLUMNS
Disorganized
Elvira Sastre and Andrés Suárez
Moderator: Arancha Moreno

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