One more year, Casa América celebrates this afternoon at 6 pm in the Miguel de Cervantes Room the act Letters of Costa Rica 2025, an annual event held in Madrid since 2022 that aims to disseminate the literature of Costa Rican authors in Spain, as well as providing a window for these writers to exhibit, promote and share their works. Free admission until capacity is full.
This year’s edition is organized within the framework of the celebration of 175 years of diplomatic relations between Costa Rica and Spain and in collaboration with the Editorial Costa Rica and the Coordinating Committee of Letters of Costa Rica, to encourage cooperation networks and business relations based on the meeting between actors in the literary industry of Costa Rica and Spain.
Welcome words from Moisés Morera Martín, Director of Programming at Casa de América; Laura Solano Rivera, Editorial Costa Rica; and Adriana Bolaños Argueta, Ambassador of Costa Rica.
Next, there will be a Dialogue on the work Contemporary Narrative Anthology of Costa Rica – Spain (publication to celebrate 40 years of AECID in Costa Rica and 65 years of Editorial Costa Rica, 2024), with Gabriela Peña-Valle (Costa Rica), Diego Quintero (Costa Rica), Nuria Barrios (Spain) and Javier Sáez de Ibarra (Spain). Will moderate: Laura Solano Rivera, Chief of Production and Editor of Editorial Costa Rica.
At 18.50 will be presented the Dialogue on the work Mamá tiene cien años (Rodolfo Arias Formoso, 2025), with Rodolfo Arias Formoso, author, and Carlos Cascante, writer, to end at 19.15 with the Dialogue with the authors about their works, Silvia Castro Méndez, author of La llama mudecida; Rolando Durán Vargas, author of Donde el tiempo espera; and Arabella Salaverry, author of Chicas malas. Moderated by Carlos Francisco Echeverría, writer and coordinator of Letras de Costa Rica.
