Love, Shadows and Demons
In the chemistry of passion vitriol frequently has an essential starring and sometimes painfully real role. Two novelists who have delved into the inks of love and a journalist will be moderated by a researcher of hate and hate speech.
José A. Pérez Ledo (Spain, 1979) is a screenwriter, television director and journalist. He collaborates regularly with different media with opinion pieces and has written for the renowned Spanish comedians Joaquín Reyes, Ángel Martín or Pablo Motos among others. He has written the novel Esto no es una historia de amor (2017) and in autumn he will publish the graphic novel Los enciclopedistas (2018).
Eithne Shortall (Ireland, 1986) is a journalist and writer. Her debut, Love in Row 27, published in 2017, has been translated into nine languages. Her second novel, Grace after Henry, was published in the UK and Ireland in 2018 and will be released in the US in 2019. She is also the chief arts writer with the Irish edition of the Sunday Times and a regular contributor to RTÉ Radio.
Raúl Tola (Perú, 1975) is a writer and journalist. He studied Law in the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru. He has written for a number of media outlets such as El País, La República and El Comercio; and, in television, Tola has been news anchor and also an interviewer and political commentator. He has published Noche de cuervos (1999), Heridas privadas (2002), Toque de queda (2008), Flores amarillas (2013) and La noche sin ventanas (2017).
Paloma Viejo Otero (Spain, 1982) has worked in cultural management in Guatemala and Sudan, has been a researcher for UNESCO and from 2012 studies the impact of hate in society, in particular racism and misogyny. In 2014 joined Dublin City University to complete her PhD about the hate speech in social media.
