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From June 17th to 19th at the Arts Center in San Luis Potosi.
The First International Crime Fiction Festival, The Traces of Crime. A fun and dynamic gathering
May 19, 2016The First International Crime Fiction Festival, The Traces of Crime, to be held from June 17th to 19th at the Arts Center in San Luis Potosi, will have 30 participants (six international and 24 national), three lectures, eight round tables, four workshops, two meetings with readers, film projections, an exhibition and a themed dinner.
Marina Nuñez Bespalova, head of the Directorate of Publications of the Department of Culture, said at press conference that the organization of this meeting is to do some justice to Mexico’s tradition about this genre and other lines related to it like yellow journalism, detective and horror novel.
"Mexico has a great tradition in this and maybe it is about time we make up a first program. The crime fiction has stopped being a minor genre, so the country is getting into the thriller fiction genre, where France, UK, Netherlands, Argentina and Chile already are”, she said.
After announcing the presence of Val McDermid (Scotland), who has over 30 awards and is cofounder of the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival; writers Bernard Minier (France), Federico Axat (Argentina), Mari Hannah, Clare Mackintosh, and forensic anthropologist Sarah Hainsworth (England), the official described the program of the festival as diverse, plural and rich, which seeks to reach different audiences.
"We do not want to focus only on the serious discussion about how crime fiction or philological studies are written, we actually want to create readers and leave the seed of curiosity to all those who will join us in San Luis Potosi, because if something has the festival is that it will be very fun and dynamic, we want people to enjoy, know the space and have an immersion in the genre taking advantage of the place where is going to be”, she said.
Laura Elena González Sánchez, general director of the Arts Center in San Luis Potosi Centenario, which was formerly a prison (Antigua Penitenciaría), said that the site will be suitable to have talks and conversations, and will help to bring a regional audience to interact with the writers.
She pointed out that crime fiction is a genre that helps start reading, brings the words to young people, while children love mystery and solve puzzles, so they can play at being detectives or characters at the Arts Center, she said.
Meanwhile, the National Coordinator of Literature of the National Institute of Fine Arts (INBA, for its acronym in Spanish), Mauricio Montiel Figueiras, explained that crime fiction has a huge tradition worldwide, which comes from the English-speaking side with Edgar Allan Poe.
"This idea of making the festival with fun activities, wants to continue and join the tradition of several crime fiction festivals that have taken place in the world”, he said.
Regarding the guests of the First International Crime Fiction Festival, The Traces of Crime, Marina Nuñez stressed that the guests will not only be writers, but people related to the crime fiction genre, so there will be forensics, filmmakers, writers, policemen who have written their experiences and illustrators.
One day before the opening of the festival, on Wednesday, June 15th, the round table Shakespeare and crime will be held at the Contemporary Art Tamayo Museum at 19:00, where Berbard Minier, Val McDermid, Sarah Hainsworth and Mari Hannah will participate.
It will be held The Last Supper. Decoding a crime, in which the writer Bernardo Esquinca will host a meeting where the guests will take part in an investigation. Films such as Laura (1944) by Otto Preminger, and The Killing (1956), by Stanley Kubrick, both commented by film critic Rafael Avina and the display Portadas de Nota Roja (Yellow Press Covers).
The opening of the First International Crime Fiction Festival, The Traces of crime will be on Friday June 17th at 17:30 pm in the Arts Center of San Luis Potosi Centenario. For more information please visit: www.cultura.gob.mx/huellasdelcrimen.
Mexico,Distrito Federal
