Photos: Jonathan Lethem | Random House \/\/ \u00a0Samanta Schweblin\u00a0 \u00a9 Isabel Wagemann<\/p>\n
Jonathan Lethem, Peter Kuper and Samanta Schweblin will be some of the featured authors in an edition that will have more international guests than ever before.<\/p>\n
Jonathan Lethem <\/strong>(New York, 1964) is one of the most imaginative narrators of our time. In addition to a unique talent for blending varied genres with the utmost naturalness, Lethem conveys the pulse of his city like no other. He does so in novels such as the celebrated \u2018Motherless Brooklyn\u2019 -the story of a unique detective with Tourette’s syndrome that was made into a film by Edward Norton in 2019-, and \u2018The Fortress of Solitude, to which he has added \u2018Brooklyn, a crime novel\u2019, his latest novel. Lethem is also a regular contributor to \u2018The New Yorker\u2019, a weekly that the festival will pay tribute to for its centenary.<\/p>\n In addition to quality journalism and literature, the iconic magazine is noted for the humour of its pages. The playful vocation – marked by its founder Harold Ross – distinguishes this publication from others such as ‘Time’ or ‘Life’, founded at the same time, and is reflected both in the content of its texts and in its iconic covers and cartoons.<\/p>\n Graphic artist Peter Kuper<\/strong> (New Jersey, 1958) is a regular contributor to \u2018The New Yorker\u2019. His cartoons can also be seen regularly in ‘The Nation\u2019 and \u2018Charlie Hebdo\u2019. Kuper has published a dozen books, including \u2018Oaxaca Diary\u2019, \u2018New York Diary\u2019 and literary adaptations of Joseph Conrad’s \u2018Heart of Darkness\u2019 and Franz Kafka’s \u2018Metamorphosis\u2019. His latest title is \u2018Insectopolis\u2019 (W.W. Norton & Company).<\/p>\n Samanta Schewblin<\/strong>, born in 1978 in Buenos Aires and based in Berlin since 2012, is one of the most interesting writers of her generation. With the exception of her novel \u2018Fever Dream\u2019, her books stand out in the short story genre, with stories such as \u2018A Mouthful of Birds\u2019, \u2018Seven Empty Houses\u2019, \u2018Kentukis’ and \u2018El buen mal\u2019. Some of her short stories have also been published in \u2018The New Yorker’.<\/p>\n Among the new features of this edition, we are looking forward to the celebration of a very special day with a double programme: a live broadcast of the programme ‘El Sentido De La Birra\u2019, presented by Ricardo Moya, and a New York-inspired party, hosted by Joaqu\u00edn Reyes. Tickets will be on sale from 18 July. You can get them through this website. These shows will be held on Saturday 11 October <\/strong>back-to-back, so you can attend both events if you wish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Jonathan Lethem, Peter Kuper and Samanta Schweblin will be some of the featured authors <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11674,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[688],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jafestival.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jafestival.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jafestival.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jafestival.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jafestival.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11785"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jafestival.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11858,"href":"https:\/\/jafestival.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11785\/revisions\/11858"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jafestival.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jafestival.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jafestival.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jafestival.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Shows: double session on 11 October<\/strong><\/h3>\n