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Pablo Simonetti, writer (Santiago de Chile, 1961). An engineer by profession, he has been writing short stories and novels since 1996. In 1999 he published Vidas vulnerables (Vulnerable Lives), which received a special mention in the Municipal Literature Prize in Santiago de Chile. In 2004, he published Madre que estás en los cielos (Mother in Heaven), a novel that was widely acclaimed in Chile and throughout Latin America, both by the public and by critics, and translated into several languages. This was followed by La razón de los amantes (2007), La barrera del pudor (2009) and La soberbia juventud (2013). In 2014, she published the short novel Garden, which was made into a play by Emilia and Héctor Noguera in 2016. His two most recent novels are Desastres naturales (2017) and Los hombres que no fui (2021). For eleven years he has directed the prestigious ‘Workshop for Future Writers’, sponsored by the Finis Terrae University. He is founder, former president and current board member of Fundación Iguales, an NGO dedicated to advancing the rights of LGBTIQ+ people. 

Gabriela Wiener, writer and journalist (Lima, Peru, 1975). She has published the books Sexografías, Llamada perdida, Nueve Lunas, Huaco retrato, Dicen de mí and the poetry collections Ejercicios para el endurecimiento del espíritu and Una pequeña fiesta llamada eternidad. His first stories were published in the narrative journalism magazine Etiqueta Negra. She was a columnist for the New York Times in Spanish, editor-in-chief of Marie Claire Spain and a contributor to a large number of international media. She publishes a weekly column for publico.es. She won the National Journalism Award in her country with a report on a case of gender violence. She is the creator of several performances which she has staged with her family. She wrote and starred in the play Qué locura enamorarme yo de ti. She is part of @Sudakasa, a collective project of migrant art and writing. Undiscovered, the English translation of his novel Huaco retrato, was a finalist for the International Booker Prize 2024 and PEN America. 

Felipe Restrepo Pombo, writer, editor and journalist (Bogotá, Colombia, 1978). In 2017 he was selected as one of the best writers under forty in Latin America. He is the author of six novels translated into different languages, the latest of which is Ceremonias, published in 2021. In the same year he received the Simón Bolívar National Journalism Prize in Colombia. He is coordinator of the Anagrama Chronicle Prize and editor of the collection of the same name. He has collaborated with dozens of international media and has given writing workshops in the United States, Spain, Mexico and Latin America. He is an occasional columnist for El País and Letras Libres. He was director of the Mexican magazine Gatopardo for six years.