Speakers 2026

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.
 

Víctor Gomollón (Zaragoza, 1971). He has spent more than half his life in the book industry. He is a book designer and runs Jekyll & Jill, a small publishing house specializing in fiction and essays.

He studied art history and illustration in Zaragoza. His practice focuses on drawing and painting, exploring the intersections between gallery art and illustration. His working methodology prioritizes the creative process, structured around research, intuition, and experimentation as the fundamental pillars of his work. Over the years, various themes have run through her work; however, those related to nature and diverse forms of staging have always been present. In addition to editorial commissions and teaching—both within and outside the academic setting—his work in sketchbooks and personal projects has become an aesthetic and sensory laboratory. Drawing inspiration from folk and non-Western art, as well as the avant-garde movements of the 20th century, his drawings possess the power of spontaneity and the intensity of the imagination.

Fernando Tarancón holds a degree in journalism from the UPV/EHU, although he has been working as a bookseller since 1994, when the JOKER bookstore first opened its doors in the Santutxu neighborhood of Bilbao. From its modest beginnings, Joker has had two core focuses: comics and the world of games. Since 2014, it has brought these two areas together in a space of more than 300 m² at 7 Euskalduna Street, where it organizes talks, workshops, and other cultural activities.

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.
 

Pakito Bolino is a French underground artist, publisher, and co-founder of Le Dernier Cri, an independent publishing house based in Marseille. Since the early 1990s, Le Dernier Cri has become internationally recognized for its radical approach to printmaking, artist books, and silkscreen editions.

His books and prints are known for their intense colors, layered textures, and tactile presence. Beyond his personal artistic production, his curatorial and editorial work with Le Dernier Cri has played a significant role in supporting international underground artists and fostering a global network of experimental graphic practices.

Leonard S. Marcus is one of the world’s leading writers about children’s books and the people who create them. He is the author of Margaret Wise Brown: Awakened by the Moon, Dear Genius: The Letters of Ursula Nordstrom, Golden Legacy: The Story of Golden Books, and more than 20 other books, including most recently You Can't Say That!: Writers for Young People Talk about Censorship, Free Expression, and the Stories They Have to Tell. Leonard has written frequently for the New York Times Book Review and has been a commentator on radio and television. He is a founding trustee of the Eric Carle Museum and is Editor at Large at Astra Publishing House, where he publishes picture books and poetry collections for young readers from around the world. Leonard lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Libri Finti Clandestini is a cosmopolitan collective that bases its work and research on artist’s books. Researching paper materials in old archives, paper mills and labs and exploring abandoned factories using cameras, telephones and portable scanners, in order to catalog the material found for future projects, its aim is to create books (individually bound by hand, stamped and numbered), ready to be used and drawn in (sketchbook and notebooks), pop up books in a small editions (50, 100 copies), fanzines and unique copies collaborations with artists, always under the sign of “experimentation”.