Blog del Instituto Cervantes de Londres

We are pleased to share with you the programme of the II Festival of Queer Spanish Literature in London – FQSLL. Happening from Wednesday 23 to Saturday 26 November at various venues across London and online.

The II Edition of The Festival of Queer Spanish Literature in London – FQSLL is a meeting point for readers, writers and people interested in LGBTI+ culture in Spanish and in any other language spoken in Spain and Latin America.

The festival’s objectives are:

• Promote Spanish LGBTQI+ studies in the United Kingdom
• Share the latest queer literature written by Spanish and Latin American writers in the United Kingdom
• Remember the roots of queer writing and support the recovery of writers who were subject to censorship and suppression
• Launch some of the latest LGBTQI+ books published in Spain during the past year
• Support new voices in queer poetry and queer theatre
• Build connections between British readers and queer literature written in Spanish and Catalan by promoting their English-language translations
• Build relations between Spanish writers & editors and their British colleagues for potential future literature translations