The second Festival of Spanish Queer Literature in London, from London-based online bookstore Romancero Books, will take place between Wednesday, 23 and Saturday, 26 November 2022.
The festival will be a hybrid of online and face-to-face events in different venues across London, from the Spanish embassy to the Cervantes Institute and the October Gallery in Bloomsbury.
The London Festival of Spanish Queer Literature: FLQEL is a point of reflection among readers, writers, critics and people interested in LGTBIQ+ culture.
The festival’s objectives are both varied and interesting:
- Promote Spanish LGBTQI+ studies in the United Kingdom
- Share the latest queer literature written by Spanish and Latin American writers in the United Kingdom.
- Remember the roots of queer writing and support the recovery of writers subject to censorship and suppression.
- Launch some of the latest LGBTQI+ books published in Spain during the past year
- Support new voices in queer poetry and queer theatre
- Build connections between British readers and queer literature written in Spanish and Catalan by promoting their English-language translations
- Build relations between Spanish writers & editors and their British colleagues for potential future literature translations
- Romancero Books is an online bookshop of Spanish and Latin American literature based in London. Their catalogue covers themes such as Lorca, female writers from Generación del 27, writers in exile and diaspora, new LGBTQI+ voices, and an extensive programme of cultural events called Romancero Talks.
For this second edition of the FLQEL, they will welcome some of the most notable names of queer literature and LGTBIQ+ activism from Spain and Latin America, such as Paco Bezerra, Katya Adaui, Ariel Florencia Richards, Eva Baltasar and Joaquín García Martín.
The programme consists of 4 live events, three podcast episodes, and three pre-recorded online talks.
