Closing sessions
The program concludes each year with a special session given by a leading professional in the sector. Among those who have taken part in the past
are:
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Carlos Da Veiga Ferreira (Editor of Editorial Teorema, Lisbon),
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Claude Cherki (Chairman of Éditions du Seuil, Paris),
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Ernst Reinhart Piper (Editor of Pendo Verlag, Zurich),
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Peter Mayer (Editor of The Overlook Press, New York. Former manager of Penguin Books and chairman of The Penguin Group),
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Riccardo Cavallero (Managing director of the Random House Mondadori Publishing Group and general manager of the Editorial Mondadori,
Milan),
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Liz Calder (Editor of Bloomsbury Publishing Inc., London),
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Gary Fisketjohn (Editor of Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York),
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Josep Lluís Monreal (Chairman and founder of the Grupo Océano, Barcelona),
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Antoine Gallimard (Chairman of Éditions Gallimard, Paris),
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Volker Neumann (Chairman of the Frankfurt International Book Fair),
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Ana María Cabanellas (Chairwoman of the International Publishers' Association, Geneva),
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Michael Krüger (Editor of Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich),
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Paolo Zaninoni (Editorial director of Rizzoli, RCS Libri, Milan),
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Carlo Feltrinelli (Editor of Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Editore, Milan),
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José Manuel Lara Bosch (Chairman of Grupo Planeta),
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Jonathan Galassi (Chairman of Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York),
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Luiz Schwarcz (Editor of Companhia das Letras, Rio de Janeiro) and
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Andrew Wylie (Literary Agent, New York).
Round Tables, Symposia and Special Sessions (1995-2011)
The programme is completed with round tables and special sessions on specific topics led by renowned professionals from within the sector. Among those
who have taken part in the past are:
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León Achar (Manager of Librerías Gandhi, Mexico),
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Miquel Alzueta (Advisor of the Bookshop Publishing Division Editorial of Grupo Planeta. Founder of Columna Edicions),
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Marta Ariño (General manager of Promotions and Marketing of Grupo Zeta),
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Mercedes de Azúa (Director of Azúa & Ancochea)
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Jesús Badenes (General manager of the Bookshop Publishing Division Editorial of Grupo Planeta),
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Carmen Balcells (Founder of the Literary Agency Carmen Balcells),
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Blanca Berasátegui (Director of the supplement El Cultural in El Mundo),
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Constantino Bértolo (Editorial director of Editorial Debate),
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María Luisa Blanco (Director of the supplement Babelia in El País),
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Eduardo Bofill (General manager of FNAC España),
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Manuel Borrás (editor of Editorial Pre-textos),
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Alfredo Bryce Echenique (Writer),
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Pedro del Carril (Editor of Ediciones Salamandra),
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Oriol Castanys (General manager of RBA Libros),
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Fernando Castillo (Vice-chairman and general manager of Ediciones Altaya),
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Javier Cercas (Writer),
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María Cifuentes (Editorial director of Taurus, Grupo Santillana),
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Paolo Collo (Editorial director of Einaudi, Turin)
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Andrés Conde (Corporate editorial director of the Grupo SM),
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Carmen Criado (Editorial director of Alianza Editorial, Grupo Anaya),
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Juan Cruz (Literary director of Alfaguara, Grupo Santillana),
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Valentine Cunningham (Chairman of the Booker Prize panel, London),
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Anezka Charvatova (Editor of Garamond, Prague),
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Alexander Dobler (Director of Under Cover Literary Agents, Colonia),
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Barbara Epler (Editorial director of New Directions, New York),
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Paulina Fariza (Editorial director of Alba Editorial),
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Enric Folch (General manager of Ediciones Paidós),
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Ernest Folch (Editor of Ara Llibres),
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Xavier Folch (Literary director of Grup 62),
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Edwin Frank (Editor of The New York Review of Books, New York),
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Josune García (Director of Ediciones Cátedra, Grupo Anaya),
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Sergio Gaspar (Editor of DVD),
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Carlos Gispert (General manager of Ediciones Grupo Océano),
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Pere Gimferrer (Editor of Editorial Seix-Barral, Grupo Planeta. Writer. Member of the Real Academia Española de la Lengua),
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Jesús Giralt (Editorial director of Enciclopèdia Catalana),
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Almudena Grandes (writer),
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Jorge Herralde (Editor of Editorial Anagrama),
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José Huerta (Editor of Lengua de Trapo),
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Gitte Skov Jacobsen (Editor of Gyldendal, Copenhagen),
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Antonia Kerrigan (Director of Antonia Kerrigan Literary Agency),
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Sigrid Kraus (Editorial director of Ediciones Salamandra),
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Fernando R. Lafuente (Director of the supplement ABCD of ABC),
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Laurence Laluyaux (literary agent with Rogers, Coleridge & White, London),
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Antonio López Lamadrid (Editor of Tusquets),
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Claudio López Lamadrid (Editorial director of the Literary Division of the Random House Mondadori Publishing Group),
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Ángel Lucía (advisor of the Random House Mondadori Publishing Group. Founder of Editorial Debate and of the Areté brand, Random House
Mondadori Publishing Group),
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Claudio Magris (writer),
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Xavier Mallafré (General manager of Grup 62. Chairman of the Gremio de Editores de Cataluña)
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José Martínez de Sousa (Grammar and bibliology expert)
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Koukla McLehose (Scout, London),
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Hans Meinke (Manager director of Galaxia Gutenberg, Bertelsmann Group),
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Eduardo Mendoza (Writer),
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Josep Mengual (Editor-in-Chief of the publishing house Edhasa),
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Josep Maria Micó (Professor of Hispanic Studies at Pompeu Fabra University),
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Juan José Millás (Writer and journalist),
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Ana María Moix (Editorial director of Ediciones B, Grupo Zeta),
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Alfredo Molina (Editor of Editorial Síntesis),
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Rosa Mora (Journalist with the newspaper El País. Former head of the literary supplement Babelia in El País ),
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Josep Moreno (Procurement manager for Editorial Planeta),
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Ferdinand Mount (Director of the Times Literary Supplement, London),
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Beatriz de Moura (Founder and literary director of Tusquets Editores),
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Antonio Muñoz Molina (Writer. Member of the Real Academia Española de la Lengua. Former director of the Instituto Cervantes in New York),
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Enrique Murillo (Journalist and writer, former editor of Plaza & Janés, Grupo Planeta and Grupo Santillana),
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Imelda Navajo (Editor of the Esfera de los Libros),
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Sara Nelson (Editor of Publishers Weekly, New York),
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Teresa Nicholls (Agent of the AP Watt literary agency, London),
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Joaquim Palau (Director of Ediciones Destino, Grupo Planeta),
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Vicent Partal (Director of Vilaweb),
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Josep Pi (General manager of Editorial Óptima and of the bookshop chain HAPPY BOOKS),
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Ricardo Piglia (Writer),
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Gonzalo Pontón (Editor of Editorial Crítica, Grupo Planeta),
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Josep Mª Pujol (Grammar expert. Lecturer in Catalan Philology at the Universidad Rovira i Virgili)
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Bertrand Py (Editorial director of Actes Sud, Paris),
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Carles Revés (Editorial director of Editorial Planeta, Grupo Planeta),
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Santiago of the Rey (Editorial director of Ediciones B, Grupo Zeta),
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Gloria Rodrigué (Editor of Editorial Sudamericana, Buenos Aires),
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Martí Romaní (Director of the Casa del Llibre, Grupo Planeta),
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Josyane Savigneau (Director of the literary supplement Le Monde des Livres of Le Monde, Paris),
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Oriol Serrano (Director of the distributor Les Punxes),
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Guillermo Schavelzon (Literary agent of the agency Schavelzon & Asociados)
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André Schiffrin (Editor of The New Press, New York),
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Luís Solano (Director of Libros del Asteroide),
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Martí Soler (Editorial director of Fondo de Cultura Económica, Mexico),
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Anna Soler-Pont (Director of Pontas Agency),
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Jacobo Stuart (Editor of Ediciones Siruela),
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Luis Suñén (Editorial director of Espasa- Calpe, Grupo Planeta),
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Nuria Tey (Editorial director of the Sales Division of the Random House Mondadori Publishing Group),
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Jaume Vallcorba (Editor of Quaderns Crema and El Acantilado), and
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Manuel Vázquez Montalbán (Writer).
The post corresponds to the one held the year of participation on the programme.