Speakers 2026

Iván Mayorquín and Raúl Pardo are two Mexican illustrators with over a decade of professional experience. Their expertise spans illustration, product development, graphic storytelling, information design and print work. The Drawing Self-Help Group is their podcast and platform designed to help creative people navigate these waters more effectively and with good company.
They are also founding members of Pictoline, where they were involved in creative direction, art direction, innovation and illustration.
 

Paloma is an illustrator, publisher and author of children’s books. She studied design and went on to complete postgraduate studies in Creative Illustration, as well as in Anthropology and Audiovisual Communication.
She has over 30 published titles, translated into 20 languages.
She has been awarded the Grand Prix at the Bratislava Biennial and was shortlisted for the Hans Christian Andersen Award and the ALMA Award.
She is the editor of Ediciones Libre, a publisher specialising in early childhood literature, which was nominated for the BOP award for Best Publisher at the Bologna Book Fair between 2023 and 2026.
She is passionate about books, illustrations and the defence of childhood as a sacred space.
 

She was born in Lima, Peru. Her picture books have been 
translated into 20 languages, and some of them have been reprinted 25 times to date. Her work has been exhibited internationally in cities such as New York, Berlin, Rome, Taiwan, Tokyo, Washington, Madrid, Frankfurt and Vienna, amongst others. 
As an author, she has won some of the most prestigious awards in children’s and young adult literature, such as the Bologna Regazzi Awards 2024; the Grand Prix Sorcières 2020, Libreter 2020, the Grand Jury Prize at the BIBF Ananas International Illustration Exhibition 2021, Zlata Hruska 2021, A la Orilla del Viento, The White Ravens 2020 and 2024,
DPictus 2020 and 2024, amongst others.
 

La Pera Ediciones is a creative studio founded by 
Paula García and Bernardo Merino, specialising in small-scale, handmade print productions. It produces both its own publications and collaborative publishing projects, acting as a platform for independent book publishing.
La Pera Ediciones’ work focuses on visual research, the exploration of the material and formal boundaries of publishing, and manual processes.
La Pera Ediciones was born out of a shared interest in self-publishing, fanzines and books as objects, viewing each publication as a carefully crafted and unique piece.
 

María Luque was born in Rosario and lives in Buenos Aires. Since 2005, she has exhibited her work in museums and galleries in Argentina, Chile, Peru, Mexico and Spain. She works as a book illustrator and runs workshops. She is the author of *La mano del pintor*, a graphic novel about Cándido López (Sigilo, 2016), “Casa transparente” (Sexto Piso, Ibero-American Cities Graphic Novel Award), “Espuma” (Galería editorial, 2018), “Noticias de pintores” (Sigilo, 2019), “Corazón geométrico” (Sigilo, 2022) and ‘Budín del cielo’ (Sigilo, 2025). In 2022, she received a Konex Award, Diploma of Merit in Humour and Comics.

Silitia is an unclassifiable duo from Bizkaia, comprising Ibai Silicato (Lekeitio, 1997) and Xabier Barrutia (Bilbao, 1999), in which the music – which they themselves describe as ‘brioche pop’ – their stage presence and their artistic vision are all equally important. If you ask them about their style, they’ll tell you they make punky-funky-electro-Basque-rock songs, but above all, Silitia is a multifaceted and constantly evolving project that surprises with every move. 

He has published more than 20 illustrated books and has received numerous awards. In 2011, he was nominated for the Best New Author Award at the Barcelona Comic Fair. In 2012, he was a finalist for the FNAC-Sin Sentido International Award. He has won two White Ravens Awards. In 2018, he won the Premi Llibreter from the booksellers of Barcelona and the Best Illustrated Album Award at Comic Con in Madrid. In 2023, he won the International Graphic Novel Award at the Angoulême Festival. He has won two Junceda Awards. In 2024, he was a guest illustrator at the Frankfurt Book Fair and the Bologna Children’s Book Fair, where he received a special mention in the Non-Fiction category for ‘Vertical: An Illustrated History of Climbing’.

Yolanda holds a degree in Fine Arts from the University of the Basque Country, having  specialised in graphic design back in 2007. She currently works as an illustrator in both the publishing and advertising sectors. She enjoys exploring concepts, communication and storytelling, and to this end she employs concise forms and compositions alongside images with a simple aesthetic. She won the Euskadi Prize for Literature in the illustration category  n 2018, and his illustrations have been selected and exhibited internationally.