The third edition of the LPA Confidencial event cross the islands by land and sea to bring the writing of the noir genre closer and police to the canaries. On this occasion, the contest expands its activity to the islands of Tenerife and The iron, with proposals for workshops and talks. The directive focuses on the rest of the Archipelago, and does not fall short in pointing out its long-term expansionist ambition towards “the continents of Africa, America and the rest of Europe.”
The expansion that the genre has experienced in recent years is undeniable. He Agatha Christie International Festival, Tenerife Not to go or the days of Black Criminal Observatory that were held last month in the town of Arucas, are some of the examples that resonate with weight in the Canarian scene. In its three years in operation, the festival has managed to occupy an increasingly larger space within the island’s cultural fabric. It arrives in 2023 with a program that brings together almost fifty national and international authors producing the genre. not to gowhich have participation in different meetings. Along these lines, the founder of the LPA Confidencial, Mayte Martín, emphasizes the importance of the figure, which competes and shortens distances between other events at the national level, such as the BCNegra festival.
The line-up features professionals of national and international stature, as well as events aimed at new and more established authors, and books such as N.N., Without additives and the collective Black on redin addition to the inaugural session that includes a face to face at the Casa de Colón by Andreu Martín and Jose Luis Correa. Names like Empar Fernandez, Juan Cruzthe Mexican Macaria Spain either Elio Quiroga They will pay tribute to the contributions of the late writer Alexis Ravelo.
The Master’s Legacy
Since his death on January 30, cultural events in the world of literature in Canary Islands They have turned their interest in entertaining the novelist’s legacy. Quiroga will contribute his grain of sand through the projections of The Pekingese strategy, a work adaptation of the novel of the same name created by Ravelo. The film can be seen on December 1st at the IES Felo Monzón and in the Casa de Colón space, and introduces a subsequent discussion between the director of the feature film and the writer Emilio González Déniz. The conversation will be joined by a debate between Jorge Liria and Elena Palacios about the author’s influence inside and outside Canarian literature.
The Minister of Government Culture, Guacimara Medina, stressed that this contest is aimed at solving an “important debt” in favor of the future of the figure of Ravelo. The institutions “are aware” of the need to create a Canarian school to encourage new writers to experiment with crime novels.
Far from focusing only on the literary and film disciplines, the contest includes an activity that involves gastronomy. Regarding the meaning of this event within the LPA Confidencial program, Martín anticipates that it will be taught by the Tenerife journalist, Yanet Acosta, a faithful follower of the work of Alexis Ravelo, and that through this workshop he will wink at his work.
An intense week of talks, interviews, debates and workshops on literature, cinema, gastronomy with a party included in the package. Inspired by Christie’s novel, After Party Orient Express puts an end to an edition that emphasizes the archipelago component.
There’s something about this format that attracts readers around the world. He mystery of the authorship of a crime and the solving the enigma It is one of the great legs that keep it stable and consolidated. A genre that attracts a wide audience and manages to hook the reader until the last line. For the founder of the LPA Confidencial event, Mayte Martín, the genre “has always been the spearhead” in the purchase of copies in the Canary Islands. An “emergence” that translates into the proliferation of “new authors” and sales of novels, since due to its typology the category of novels allows different themes to be “encompassed under the same umbrella.” He not to go It is that popular genre for highlight gray narrativesand that seeks to shed light on issues that transcend beyond the textas can be the truth and the nature of human behavior.
