The blackest annual event arrives in Barcelona. Of January 29 to February 4 we have a new edition of the Black Novel Festival in Barcelona, BCBlack 2018. This year the writer takes command as commissioner Carlos Zanón after the bookseller's farewell paco camarasa in the previous edition.

Dedicated to harassment of all kinds on this occasion, the festival includes a series of activities of all kinds and also includes the usual awards. This year the winner of the Pepe Carvalho Award es James Ellroy, the Rabid Dog of North American black literature, accompanied by his more than illustrious compatriot Don winslow and many more great international and national names in dark letters. We review.

Carlos Zanón, new curator

Zanon he took over from Paco Camarasa and made his debut as curator in this edition. With the difficult mission of resurrect Pepe Carvalho, I would have planned to publish it this year. In addition, he is putting the finishing touches on his new novel that will appear in October. He has shown the possibility of having a deputy curator to help him, since he believes that this festival is a team effort.

James Ellroy, Pepe Carvalho Award

The Festival jury awards this year's award to James Ellroy on February 1. The call Rabid dog o Diabolical of American literature is un character in his novels himself. Marked by the tragic death of his mother In an unsolved murder in 1958, his real life, intense and full of dangerous walks on the razor's edge, surpasses any of his fictional stories. More than recommended to read My dark corners, which now comes out with a new edition, and where the author tells us in detail.

The harsh and cutting telegraphic style and not suitable For all readers, he is the creator of the darkest, most criminal and corrupt face of his hometown, Los Angeles. In it the grayer characters move, particularly broken and destructive. His more widespread fame and his conversion into an author of great masses came to him thanks to the film adaptations of two of his novels: L. A. Confidential, masterpiece of Curtis hanson released in 1997, and The black dahliaWho he led Brian De Palma in 2006 with much less success and which will also be screened at the festival on Friday, February 2.

Star talk with Don Winslow

It will be on Saturday February 3 in a conversation that moderates Antonio Lozano, writer and literary journalist. The acclaimed American writer, author of such revered titles as The power of the dog o The cartel, or the last, Police corruption, will chat live and direct about his literary portrait of evil. Unique and essential opportunity for all his admirers who are millions.

About harassment

The topic that will be discussed in this edition will be that of bullying both gender, school and social networks. On the first one will speak names like Lucia Lijtmaer, journalist and writer, Luisgé Martin, writer, or Elizabeth McCausland, journalist and critic, specialized in popular culture and feminism. About bullying they will Juan Carlos Barroso Sanchez, Lolita bosch, writer, and Grace Moreno, magistrate and also a writer. And on the harassment in social networks they will debate Orejón forest, expert in security and communication, Lorenzo Silva or John Soto Ivars, writer and columnist.

Graphic novels and comics

BCNegra collaborates with Editorial Standard in the anthology BCN Black edited by Norma, where authors and screenwriters recreate a universe of violence, crime and passion in 23 stories set in Barcelona.

And there will also be a round table on the graphic novel with Sergi Alvarez, novelist and comic scriptwriter; Jordi Bernett , comic book artist and series author Torpedo 1936; Ruben Pellejero, known by the detective Dieter Lumpen and who also now gives life to Corto Maltese. Y Charles Salem, poet and novelist.

More activities

Interesting will also be the round table on talents of southern noir Europe, who are stomping on the black scene with names like the writer Ignatius of the Valley, creator of Arturo Andrade, Berna González Harbor, author of the novels of the curator Ruiz and the Italian Massimo Carlotto, writer and playwright, and author of the private detective nicknamed the Cayman.

And also to highlight the conversation that moderates Berna González Harbor on quality and precision in black gender among Argentina Claudia Pineiro, author of successful novels such as Tuya o The Cracks of Jara, and the Canadian Louise penny, which sets its crimes in small Quebec communities and hides complex plots behind a bucolic landscape. Two names brought as examples of the talent and the trade of the genre in two extremes of the same continent. Penny is the creator of the inspector Armand gamache.

• Much more information in BCBlack 2018.