A flurry of letters, culture, Sun and beach in Cartagena de Indias

In January, the Colombia Caribbean coast is epicentre of the best matches and cultural expressions of the country and Latin America. It is the time of the year to meet one of the most beautiful cities in the world, that between 26 and 29 January opens the door to the literary, journalistic, scientific and musical conversations with the taste that has only the Sun, the beach and the atmosphere of Cartagena.

Participate in the Festival there is a perfect excuse to pack bags and discover this city, one of the venues of this cultural event that started more than 20 years ago in the small town of Hay-on-Wye, Wales, with the idea of bringing together writers, thinkers, musicians, filmmakers and scientists in the world to promote the exchange of ideas.

The Hay Festival in Cartagena reached its seventh edition in this 2012 and is part of the strategies for the promotion of Proexport, to attract tourism and foreign investment, two of its three missions as an entity of the u000aBeen Colombian, attached to the Ministry of Commerce, industry and tourism.

Proexport participate not only with the tourism promotion of the event and the city. For the first time he will bring to six literary agents, who will talk business to exporters in the publishing sector. In addition, 12 prestigious journalists specialized in issues of tourism, environment, culture and literature are invited.

Cristina sources La Roche, Director of the Hay Festival, said that the event organized in Cartagena is distinguished by its audience, listen, taste, dancing and celebrates this festival to their form, "generous, inquisitive and intelligent way".

Also, stresses "the high quality of its participants and its innovative format".

"It is not a book fair or an academic, event is the celebration of the oral and written word," explains sources La Roche

A vision of the world more RICA
the Hay Festival in Cartagena has a programming u000aspecially designed for children and young people from different localities of the city, and is performed during the season low. "Hay Festival Cartagena de Indias" is seven years old. To celebrate, its organizers have opted for a programme more interdisciplinary and inclusive than ever

"The message is always: the work of artists and thinkers enriches our vision of the world and gives us new ideas in these turbulent times", says Cristina sources La Roche.

Guests this year include Carlos Fuentes, Mexican writer the Brazilian author Nélida Piñon; Jonathan Franzen, one of the top rated North American young writers of the time; the Danish Jane Teller; German David Safier; and Colombian Evelio Rosero.

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