Speakers 2026

Llamp Edicions is an independent publishing house based in Barcelona. Our catalog is diverse and showcases artistic practices that span disciplines and spring from intuition or spontaneous gestures.

These books are crafted with care and are the result of experimentation through close collaboration with the artists. We guide the entire process and bring out the best in each project through meticulous editing. In addition, we collaborate with the local community to produce these publications using artisanal methods.

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.

Mariana Mendia studied Hispanic literature at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. For the past thirty years, she has been involved in a wide variety of publishing projects; however, her work has gradually shifted toward the development of illustrated publications, particularly literary works for children and young adults. She has worked as an editor for Fondo de Cultura Económica, the National Autonomous University of Mexico, Editorial Santillana, and Ediciones Castillo Macmillan—one of the leading publishers in Mexico’s educational and literary sectors—where she served as manager of Children’s and Young Adult Literature.

Since 1998, when they founded the Media Vaca publishing house, Begoña Lobo and Vicente Ferrer have been creating richly illustrated books for readers of all ages. Much of what they publish revolves around the humor, poetry, and mystery that enliven popular culture. They feel indebted to the work of those graphic artists who, throughout history, have sought to connect with the broadest and least familiar audiences.

She is an illustrator and designer. She is currently focused on children’s and young adult literature and fiction. In the former field, she has published several works: “Hanka, moko eta buztan” (Ikaselkar, 2021) and “Lorerik Gorriena” (Pamiela, 2020). Her latest work is the comic book project “Hodeien gainean” (Txalaparta eta Bang Ediciones, 2022–2023). She has received numerous awards and honorable mentions in recent years. She has been selected for the Iberoamérica Ilustra catalog organized by the Guadalajara International Book Fair (2022 and 2021). She has received the Egile Award (2022), the Etxepare Award (2020), and the Irudika Special Honorable Mention (2020), among other honors.

She grew up around art – a home filled with endless choices to choose from:  acrylic, oil and watercolors, clay, mounds of yarn, piles of material and spools of colorful thread. She was excited to see the patterns and textures, always “borrowing” her mother’s materials (and sewing machine) wanting to unleash the maker in me and share in the joy of creating.  Her project Forbidden Palestinian flora finds life in thread and tatreez, each stitch a testament to memory, resilience, and the subtle revolt of staying rooted under occupation.

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. 

Stéphane Tsapis is a passionate traveler, composer, and pianist who has forever been building bridges between his Mediterranean roots and multicultural Paris, the international gateway and melting pot where he grew up. 

In 2015, he formed a trio with Marc Buronfosse and Arnaud Biscay. They have since toured such varied places as Romania, Greece, Columbia, Japan, Mexico and Tadjikistan with their album “Border Lines”, not forgetting an occasional visit to France. 

As leader of the group Kaïmaki, Stéphane Tsapis produced the album “Mataroa” as a showcase for the spoken word, specifically his own father’s voice recounting the forced exile of Greek people caused by the civil war. With his album “Le Tsapis Volant”, ("The Flying Tsapis”, a pun on the French “tapis volant” for "magic carpet”), the aim was to blend the particular voice of the oriental piano, a singular musical instrument producing a unique sound, with female voices from wide-ranging backgrounds. It was meant as a musical retrospective featuring his artistic collaborations from the recent past.