The BCNegra literary festival in Barcelona comes to an end this Sunday. The organizers have announced that, for this 19th edition, a total of 8,700 people have attended, who have been able to enjoy the more than 50 scheduled activities, most of them free, and the participation of 150 authors, among whom Chris Offutt, Eduardo Mendoza, Carles Porta, Elaine Vilar, Alicia Giménez-Bartlett and Jo Nesbo stand out, to whom the Pepe Carvalho award was presented.
The finale of this event, which has had the figure of the spy as its central axis, will take place today at 6 p.m., with a conversation between the writer Alan Parks and the journalist Xavi Ayén.
Both the director of the festival, Carlos Zanón, and the Institute of Culture of Barcelona City Council, also behind this event, have applauded that the BCNegra has established itself “among an enthusiastic audience, faithful followers of its leading authors but also open to discover new voices”. The Barcelona meeting has as its hallmark, in the words of its director, “that the people who participate do so with great joy, they come to have a good time and, at the same time, to consume culture.”
The Councilor for Culture and Creative Industries of Barcelona City Council, Xavier Marcé, considered that the balance of this edition “reaffirms that it is an essential festival, very loved and, above all, very transversal.”
BCNegra has had the complicity of around thirty bookstores in the city, which have been added to the festival program with parallel activities. Throughout the seven days of activities, the festival bookstore, selected by lottery among the members, has sold more than a thousand books by authors linked to the program.
