Kosmopolis

The Amplified Literature Fest

Kosmopolis is a biennial literary event, born in 2002 and held at the Centre of Contemporary Culture of Barcelona.

It is a feast-laboratory where Literature is the main focus of attention. A meeting to celebrate a universalistic discourse, a feast to emancipate readers, to stimulate the canon’s mutation, to shake genres, to sail in languages and to revise myths, traditions and identities.

In a context where the written word, the oral word and the electronic word reflect the tremors of a globalized world, a prospect of mutating genres, categories, formats and storage systems is emerging. Kosmopolis condenses and amplifies this process, placing literature in the centre of the scene and interacting with the Arts and Sciences.

Kosmopolis is a date with art and freedom inspired in an old consciousness: we are citizens of the cosmos, citizens of the universe.

Being cosmopolitan does not mean being indifferent to one country, and being sensitive, to others. It means the generous ambition of being sensitive to all countries and all ages, the desire for eternity, the desire for having been many.

Jorge Luis Borges

Journey to Mars: First Stop

Talk and screening

Over a period of three months, five groups of men and women creators, activists, thinkers, and young people who have migrated unaccompanied have formed the crew of a metaphorical mission to Mars in order to reflect upon the experience of the journey itself and the future we have in common. ...

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Launch of ‘CARN DE CAP IV’

Borja Bagunyà, Míriam Cano, Júlia Francino, Roser Cabré-Verdiell, and Ariana Atala

The sea, ocean, and transatlantic voyages are so frequently encountered in literature that they could be said to constitute a genre in and of themselves. For the latest issue of Carn de Cap, we have invited some of our most cherished authors to answer that question, and their ...

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Full list of previous activities

The Amplified Literature Fest

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Maria Arnal, José Luis de Vicente and Eduard Escoffet with Marta Mathéu

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Conversation between Rachel Cantor and Joan Miquel Oliver

The multitalented British writer talks with Alicia Kopf

Travel literature through graphic fiction

The Nobel Prize for Literature winner 2006 in conversation with journalist Pepa Fernández

The contemporary relevance of Mary Shelley’s novel and its relationship with climate change

We talk with the author of “The Underground Railroad: A Novel”, 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

Live battle of translations

Conversation between the Norwegian Author and Antonio Lozano

Special session on Canadian literature

9th Amplified Literature Fest

Xcèntric Archive

Journalist Antonio Lozano interviews British writer Ian McEwan

Lecture in the frame of the science fiction convention «Eurocon 2016»

Lecture in the frame of the science fiction convention «Eurocon 2016»

Lecture in the frame of the science fiction convention «Eurocon 2016»

Dialogue with Juana Adcock, Erika Fatland and Albert Forns

Conversation between Don DeLillo and Antonio Lozano

Conversation between Svetlana Alexievich and Francesc Serés

Dialogue between John Irving and Enric González

Workshop and dialogue with Anna Dot, Eduard Escoffet, Jordi Nopca and Marc Caellas

Screening and battle of illustrators

Radio programme and concert

A talk between Salman Rushdie and Rodrigo Fresán

Dialogue with Lyudmila Petrushevskaya

Ivan Pintor

Fox / Hart Hanson

Gonzalo Elvira and Rafa Castañer (GR)

Aitor Gabilondo, Javier Olivares and Isabel Vázquez

Laura Baena

Aniol Rafel

Pep Prieto, Enric Ros and Serielizados

HBO / Andrew Jarecki, Marc Smerling, Zachary Stuart-Pontier

Raquel Crisóstomo and Enric Ros

HBO / Lena Dunham, Jenni Konner, Judd Apatow

Amazon Studios / Roman Coppola, Jason Schwartzman, Alex Timbers

Danmarks Radio / Adam Price

Carles Bosch, Marc Pastor and Serielizados

BBC / John Alexander, Andrew Davies

Luna Miguel, Unai Velasco and Sergio Espinosa

Europe in Translation – The Schwob/Finnegan’s List Project

Pol Ducable, Marc Egea, Carles Belda and Jordi Vallverdú. Presents: Marta García-Matos

Dominique Monféry

Benjamín Recacha, Daniel Jerez Torns, Julián Bueno Ardila (Llibres a mida), Carles Pujol (Editorial Alrevés). Moderator: Mariana Eguaras (Mariana Eguaras Consultoría Editorial)

Jesús Cruz

Jose Valenzuela Ruiz (UPF)

Carmen Ospina (Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial)

Pepe Verdes (Manuscritics)

Carme Fenoll (Biblioteques de la Generalitat), Maribel Riaza, Carme Galve (Biblioteca Jaume Fuster) and Albert Díaz (Centre de Documentació del Museu del Disseny de Barcelona). Moderator: Javier Celaya (Dosdoce)

Pascual Barberán (Barberán and González Abogados) - Videoconferencing

Seven Reasons for Believing in a Great Future for Journalism

Session of The Bcn-Medellín International Reading Club

Julieta Lionetti (24symbols)

Habitació 1418

Wars and Hunger

Carmenchu Buganza (Aequitas Abogados Asociados)

Poetry Slam Workshop

Vanessa Tait

The Speed of Fiction

Charlie Paul

Ferran Adell (UOC)

Pupil collectives

Abel Cutillas (La Calders), Alejo Cuervo (Gigamesh), Nicolás Weber (Re-Read) and Fe Fernández Villaret (L’espolsada Llibres). Moderator: Martín Gómez (elojofisgon.com)

Laura Poitras

Ricard Marfà (Ara Interactius), César Vallejo (Lab RTVE), Ferran Clavell (TV3 – Mitjans digitals). Moderator: Carles Sora (UPF)