Conferences, readings and meetings with authors and journalists make up the Autumn Noir literary festival, which seeks to offer readers of the crime and noir genres a platform to enjoy new titles and themes.
For four days, this meeting, organized by the publishing house Los Libros del Perro, will have different virtual and in-person activities at venues such as the Rosario Castellanos bookstore of the Fondo de Cultura Económica and the Tonalá Cinema, so that the public can listen, ask questions and enjoy new literary material.
Latin American voices
In interview with The DayZel Cabrera, poet, writer and member of the publishing house, spoke about this new exhibition that seeks to put crime literature at the forefront:
“We wanted to create an annual space for these genres and we realized that there were many Latin American voices focused on it. We organized ourselves and made a meeting point for authors, journalists and readers. Crime and detective novels are indispensable literary currents so that we can cover the ideas of justice, memory and fear, things that are sometimes difficult to name in everyday life.”
The name of Autumn Noir is based on the melancholy that highlights this time of year: “For us this season is a closing of the cycle and of longer shadows. It dialogues with that ‘noir’ that refers to mystery, crime and intrigue. This first edition has 40 guest authors, with a very intense four-day program, but precisely we want the public to be able to hear as much as they can and to measure the richness of current literature.”
Among the participants are Juan Camilo Rincón, Natalia Consuegra, Nicolás Ferraro, Iris García Cuevas, Hilario Peña, Charlie Becerra, Lorenzo Lunar, Rebeca Murga, Violeta Santiago, Vicente Alfonso and Imanol Caneyada. At the festival, novels, chronicles, essays and journalistic texts will be found and discussed.
The police genre has increased its popularity in the social context of Latin America. This is because “today crime, violence and impunity are not just stories, but they are in the news, in the streets and in family conversations. Police and criminal literature, when taken seriously, function as a mirror of reality and also as a way to question issues such as justice, memory and fear,” concluded Zel Cabrera.