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LETRAS. La FIL alcanzó la cifra récord de más de 953 mil asistentes en su edición 39


Durante las ceremonias de cambio de estafeta se anunció que el aniversario 40 de este encuentro literario se celebrará con diversas actividades que se realizarán a lo largo de 2026.

En imágenes algunos momentos del encuentro literario y de la ceremonia de cambio de estafeta entre las delegaciones de Barcelon e Italia / Images show some moments from the literary meeting and the handover ceremony between the delegations from Barcelona and Italy. Fotos. ENRIQUE VÁZQUEZ Y CLAUDIA ANDALÓN

Enrique Vázquez Lozano / Guadalajara

La edición 39 de la Feria Internacional del Libro de Guadalajara (FIL) alcanzó una asistencia de poco más de 953 mil personas según informó José Trinidad Padilla López, presidente de dicho encuentro que se realizó del 29 de noviembre al 7 de diciembre de 2025.
Durante la rueda de prensa Marisol Schulz, directora de la FIL detalló que fueron 45 mil asistentes más que en 2024, lo cual representó un incremento del 5 %. Por otro lado se anunció que dicho encuentro literario contó con una inversión de 131 millones 258 mil 454.96 y egresos por 128 millones 100 mil 379. 57, de manera que este año hubo una ganancia de 3 millones 135, mil 75 pesos.
Schultz reiteró su satisfacción por haber convocado a escritores como Amin Maalouf, Joan Manuel Serrat, y las estrellas de cine Gael García Bernal y Richard Gere, además de que finalmente si logró asistir la actividsta nigeriana Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, la presencia de dos premios Nobel, Venki Ramakrishnan, en Química en 2009 y Rigoberta Menchú, de la Paz, en 1992.
La delegación de Barcelona compartió que los libros que no logró vender durante los días de feria, los donaron a la Universidad de Guadalajara de manera que pasarán a formar parte del acervo de la Biblioteca Pública del Estado de Jalisco Juan José Arreola, Por otro lado Schulz anunció que celebrarán durante todo el año el 40 aniversario de la FIL y que la edición 40 se realizará del 28 de noviembre al 6 de diciembre de 2026 con Italia como invitado de honor.

ADIÓS BARCELONA, BIENVENIDO ITALIA


En la ceremonia del cambio de estafeta Raquel Gil, concejal, presidenta del Institituto Municipal de Mercados de Barcelona y Vicepresidenta del Instituto Municipal de la Vivienda y Rehabilitación de Barcelona, ratificó su satisfacción y agrado de haber participación como invitado de honor de la FIL Guadalajara con una delegación encabezada por el cantautor Joan Manuel Serrat, quien recibió el título Doctor Honoris causa que entrega la UdeG.

Por su parte Filippo La Rosa, Director Central para la Promoción de la Cultura y la Lengua Italiana, mencionó que la invitación es reflejo de los años de relaciones entre México e Italia, la cual ha sido resultado de la confianza y curiosidad recíproca entre esas naciones, celebró que la invitación se formalizara con esta ceremonia en 2025, año en que se cumplen 150 años de relaciones diplomáticas entre México e Italia. El funcionario recordó que en 2026 se cumplen ocho siglos del nacimiento de San Francisco de Asís, 200 años del de Carlo Collodi autor de Pinocchio, cien años de Dario Fo y diez años de la muerte de Umberto Eco.

Durante dicha ceremonia de cambio de estafeta Gil obsequió a La Rosa una loseta de plata diseñada en 1904 por Antoni Gaudí, que se conmemora en el centenario, el primer producto realizado en diseño industrial de barcelona y una pequeña joya del modernismo catalán y La Rosa obsequió a Gil un ejemplar del libro Italia Meravigiliosa, que incluye fotografías de jardines y palacios de italia elaboradas por Massimo Listri.
Como cierre de dicho acto, la compagnia del Centro Coreográfico Nazionale (CCN) Aterballeto, representó Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda la pieza renacentista de Claudio Monteverdi, con coreografia de Philippe Kratz, bajo la dirección de Fabio Cherstich.

NUMERALIA


953 Mil Asistentes
3 mil actividades
648 presentaciones de libro
973 autores y autoras
2790 sellos editoriales de 64 países
450 mil títulos
110 mesas de negociación
18 mil 400 profesionales de 64 países
198 mil asistentes a FIL Niños
1462 sesiones de 15 talleres
44 sesiones de talleres espontáneos
67 funciones de 24 compañías de teatro
3 mil 143 medios de comunicación de 16 países

The 39th edition of the Guadalajara International Book Fair (FIL) reached an attendance of just over 953,000 people, according to José Trinidad Padilla López, president of the event, which took place from November 29 to December 7, 2025. During the press conference, Marisol Schulz, director of the FIL, explained that there were 45,000 more attendees than in 2024, representing a 5% increase. On the other hand, it was announced that the literary event had an investment of 131,258,454.96 pesos and expenses of 128,100,379.57 pesos, resulting in a profit of 3,135,075 pesos this year.

Schultz reiterated his satisfaction at having invited writers such as Amin Maalouf and Joan Manuel Serrat, and film stars Gael García Bernal and Richard Gere. He also noted the eventual attendance of Nigerian activist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and the presence of two Nobel laureates: Venki Ramakrishnan (Chemistry, 2009) and Rigoberta Menchú (Peace, 1992).
The Barcelona delegation shared that the books they were unable to sell during the fair were donated to the University of Guadalajara, where they will become part of the collection of the Juan José Arreola State Public Library of Jalisco. Schulz also announced that they will celebrate the 40th anniversary of the FIL throughout the year, and that the 40th edition will take place from November 28 to December 6, 2026, with Italy as the guest of honor.

GOODBYE BARCELONA, WELCOME ITALY


At the handover ceremony, Raquel Gil, councilor, president of the Barcelona Municipal Markets Institute, and vice president of the Barcelona Municipal Housing and Rehabilitation Institute, reaffirmed her satisfaction and pleasure at having participated as a guest of honor at the Guadalajara International Book Fair (FIL) with a delegation headed by singer-songwriter Joan Manuel Serrat, who received an honorary doctorate from the University of Guadalajara (UdeG).

For his part, Filippo La Rosa, Central Director for the Promotion of Italian Culture and Language, mentioned that the invitation reflects the years of relations between Mexico and Italy, which have resulted from mutual trust and curiosity between the two nations. He celebrated that the invitation was formalized with this ceremony in 2025, the year marking 150 years of diplomatic relations between Mexico and Italy. The official noted that 2026 marks the 800th anniversary of the birth of Saint Francis of Assisi, the 200th anniversary of Carlo Collodi, author of Pinocchio, the 100th anniversary of Dario Fo, and the 10th anniversary of Umberto Eco’s death.

During the handover ceremony, Gil presented La Rosa with a silver tile designed in 1904 by Antoni Gaudí, whose centenary is being commemorated. This tile is the first product made using industrial design techniques in Barcelona and a small jewel of Catalan Modernism. La Rosa, in turn, presented Gil with a copy of the book Italia Meravigiliosa, which includes photographs of Italian gardens and palaces taken by Massimo Listri.

To close the event, the Aterballeto company of the Centro Coreografico Nazionale (CCN) performed Claudio Monteverdi’s Renaissance ballet Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda, with choreography by Philippe Kratz and directed by Fabio Cherstich.

NUMBERS


953,000 Attendees
3,000 Activities
648 Book Presentations
973 Authors
2,790 Publishing Houses from 64 Countries
450,000 Titles
110 Negotiation Tables
18,400 Professionals from 64 Countries
198,000 Children’s FIL Attendees
1,462 Sessions in 15 Workshops
44 Spontaneous Workshop Sessions
67 Performances by 24 Theater Companies
3,143 Media Outlets from 16 Countries

CARMEN LAFORET & BARCELONA


Columna de Opinión

Israel Rolón-Barada, columnista de Balsia Producciones y biógrafo de Carmen Laforet.

Por Israel Rolón Barada.

Guadalajara, 6 de diciembre de 2025

Entonces, LAFORET, por medio de su personaje y protagonista, Andrea, obtuvo todo el éxito literario con su primera obra, que fue toda una revelación feminista y renovación de la novela española peninsular contemporánea. Gracias a su sensibilidad y vena literaria logró alcanzar la cumbre aún en vida, como autora de una nueva novela de carácter universal. ¿Quién, en el universo literario hispanoamericano, que haya leído NADA, no sería capaz de identificarse con ANDREA y su creadora, CARMEN LAFORET, capaces de tocar profundamente y para siempre las fibras del corazón de cualquier lector tanto en castellano como en todas las lenguas en las que ha sido traducida y publicada durante los últimos 80 años?

Por eso me atrevo a decir que CARMEN LAFORET, NADA y ANDREA son parte inherente en BARCELONA. La autora, su obra y su protagonista son Barcelona. Y Barcelona está en ellas magistralmente representada para la eternidad.

¿Cuántos no hemos ido y continuamos yendo a Barcelona en busca de Andrea por la calle de ARIBAU y por todos los lugares emblemáticos de la gran ciudad, como el Barrio Chino, el Tibidabo, Plaza Cataluña, la avenida Diagonal, entre tantos puntos claves recorridos por ambas jóvenes estudiantes (tanto Carmen como Andrea) con vehemencia en busca de amor, comprensión, sentido de la vida, y un desarrollo intelectual?

Algunos / muchos hemos encontrado a nuestra ANDREA, otros todavía continúan en esa búsqueda. En mi caso, gracias a mi apreciación por su obra literaria, la complicidad intelectual, mi perseverancia académica, y un poco de magia, he tenido la fortuna de también haber encontrado a CARMEN LAFORET. Que sirva de evidencia los resultados de mi investigación académica, la base y los cimientos de su biografía, y la recuperación y conservación de la mayoría de su correspondencia, además de haber localizado el manuscrito de NADA, reeditado su obra, y promovido su figura literaria por más de 25 años, con la satisfacción de hablarlo compartido todo con la escritora misma antes de su fallecimiento en febrero de 2004.

Guadalajara, December 6, 2025.

Thanks to the honorary invitation extended to the city of Barcelona to the Guadalajara International Book Fair, we also remember and pay tribute to those key figures who have represented literature, culture, and the arts in general throughout history, both nationally and internationally, hailing from this Catalan capital.

Among the top one hundred writers who could possibly top this list, it would be impossible not to include Carmen Laforet. When speaking of or imagining Barcelona in an intellectual and literary context, it is also absolutely necessary to remember and include the renowned postwar novelist Carmen Laforet, her masterpiece Nada (1945), and its protagonist Andrea. Because Nada, as a novel and a literary work, is Barcelona, ​​and Barcelona was and will forever be portrayed in this book. A book that became a classic even during its author’s lifetime, which is saying something. Therefore, both Laforet and the essence of her first novel are an integral part of Barcelona for posterity.

Among the many distinguished and excellent writers from Barcelona, ​​such as Mercè Roderedas, Ana María Matute, Rosa Regas, and Baltasar Porcel, all natives of this great city, so famous for its beauty, architecture, painting, music, gastronomy, and the rich artistic and intellectual culture that makes it one of the most cosmopolitan and attractive tourist destinations, we find the outstanding story of a very particular writer with a unique style who revolutionized the history and trajectory of contemporary Spanish literature: Carmen Laforet.

Born in Barcelona on September 6, 1921, she moved to Las Palmas de Gran Canaria at the age of two due to her father’s professional commitments. She did not return to her hometown until 1939, just after the end of the Spanish Civil War. With a Canarian accent, thanks to having convinced/blackmailed her father by finding love letters between him and her stepmother written before her mother’s death, when the future author was only 13 years old, she manages to return to Barcelona and settle in her grandparents’ historic apartment at number 36 Aribau Street, on the corner of Consell de Cent. This would undoubtedly become the setting for her future masterpiece.

Under the dramatic impact of a city in ruins after the war, the inevitable and unsustainable socioeconomic and cultural circumstances—factors responsible for the limitations of all kinds she faced due to that family and academic depression during her first two years at university—proved invaluable. The combination of all these tangible factors was her inspiration and driving force, the motivators for the creation and writing of a novel that would win the first Nadal Prize, break the mold and reshape the trajectory of the romance novel, and stand out as one of the new pillars of post-war Spanish fiction. Written by a young student, but full of talent and artistic and literary sensitivity, at just 24 years old at the time of the first edition and publication, thanks to Editorial Destino, which has sold at least 8,000 copies a year without interruption since 1945. A book that, quite possibly, according to publishing statistics, has been reprinted nearly as many times as Don Quixote or the Bible.

Thus, Laforet, through her character and protagonist, Andrea, achieved great literary success with her first work, which was a feminist revelation and a renewal of the contemporary Spanish peninsular novel. Thanks to her sensitivity and literary talent, she reached the pinnacle of her career while still alive, as the author of a new novel of universal appeal. Anyone in the Hispanic American literary world who has read Nada would not be able to identify with Andrea and her creator, Carmen Laforet, who have the power to deeply and permanently touch the hearts of any reader, both in Spanish and in all the languages ​​into which it has been translated and published over the last 80 years.

That is why I dare say that Carmen Laforet, Nada, and Andrea are an inherent part of Barcelona. The author, her work, and her protagonist are from Barcelona. And Barcelona is masterfully represented within them for eternity.

How many of us haven’t gone, and continue to go, to Barcelona in search of Andrea, wandering along Aribau Street and through all the iconic landmarks of the great city, like the Barrio Chino, Tibidabo, Plaça Catalunya, and Avinguda Diagonal, among so many other key locations traversed by both young students (Carmen and Andrea) with such fervor in their search for love, understanding, meaning in life, and intellectual growth?

Some of us have found our Andrea, while others continue their search. In my case, thanks to my appreciation for her literary work, our intellectual affinity, my academic perseverance, and a touch of magic, I have been fortunate enough to also find Carmen Laforet. The results of my academic research, the foundation of her biography, and the recovery and preservation of most of her correspondence serve as evidence of this. Furthermore, I have located the manuscript of Nada, republished her work, and promoted her literary legacy for over 25 years, with the satisfaction of having shared it all with the writer herself before her passing in February 2004.

LAFORET and BARCELONA, for me, are one and the same.

Imagen 1- El emblemático portal de hierro y cristal, de la casa de la calle de ARIBAU #36, el escenario de NADA, la obra maestra de CL. Imagen 2 y 3 -La casa / y el piso de 8 balcones q la protagonista describe tan minuciosamente en su libro… / Image 1 – The iconic iron and glass doorway of the house at 36 Aribau Street, the setting for NADA, CL’s masterpiece. Images 2 and 3 – The house and the apartment with 8 balconies that the protagonist describes so meticulously in her book… Fotos: Cortesía.

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