In the mirror of the mask: the faces of the Hay Festival Querétaro

1The photographer Daniel Mordzinski has wondered how to re-portray in the middle of the pandemic: "About what I want to tell, testify and above all, what I want to preserve from this dark time," he says.

Camen Rioja, writer and visual artist.

Daniel Mordzinski

2 "Throughout this year and a half we have all felt strangers to ourselves and many of us have lost loved ones, surrounded by fear and anguish", comments the photographer.

Elvira Valgañón has a degree in Hispanic and English Philology.

Daniel Mordzinski

3 "Every photograph contains a story and each image can, rather than remove the masks, replace them," says the photographer, by way of explanation about this work at the Hay Festival in Querétaro.

Yásnaya Aguilar, linguist, writer, translator, linguistic rights activist and ayuujk researcher.

Daniel Mordzinski

4Foenkinos trained as a jazz musician.

In 2004 he published 'The erotic potential of my wife' (2004), winner of the 2004 Roger-Nimier award. In 2009 he wrote 'Delicadeza', which made his name known internationally.

Daniel Mordzinski

5Mónica Ojeda is the author of the novels' La disfiguración Silva '(Alba Narrativa Prize, 2014),' Nefando '(Candaya, 2016) and' Mandíbula '(Candaya, 2018), as well as the book of poems' El ciclo de las piedra ´ (Rastro de la Iguana, 2015).

Daniel Mordzinski

6Pablo d'Ors, priest and writer of the 'Silence Trilogy', consisting of 'The forgetfulness of self', 'Biography of silence' and 'The friend of the desert', a novel that has just been republished and devoted to meditation.

Daniel Mordzinski

7Antonio Ortuño, writer and journalist, one of the best Hispanic American storytellers of his generation, explores in this novel an irrepressible problem: gentrification and the role of dirty money.

Daniel Mordzinski

8Paulina Flores in 2014 was awarded the Roberto Bolaño Prize with the story 'Qué vergüenza', which gives the title to her first book.

Daniel Mordzinski

9Pilar Quintana is a Colombian writer and screenwriter.

She has participated in international anthologies and was named one of the 39 most interesting authors under 39 in Latin America by the Hay Festival.

Daniel Mordzinski

10Santiago Roncagliolo, Peruvian writer.

At just two years old, his family was deported to Mexico by the military government.

He returned to Peru years later, where he published his first children's novels and his first play Your friends would never hurt you, performed in many countries.

Daniel Mordzinski

11Verónica Escalante was a journalist for ten years during which she wrote the daily column 'Mi Ciudad'. In Expansión magazine, she wrote the fortnightly column 'Detrás del Frente'.

Daniel Mordzinski

12Juan Villoro is undoubtedly one of the most versatile, visible and prolific writers on the contemporary Spanish-speaking literary scene.

He has obtained numerous awards, including the José Donoso in Chile, the Herralde in Spain, the Arguedas in Cuba, the Villaurrutia in Mexico and the ACE in Argentina.

Daniel Mordzinski