Participants SILA 2011

Matilde Sanz holds a degree in Journalism from the Universidad Complutense (Madrid) and MA in International Relations from the University of New South Wales (Sydney). It is responsible for publishing and alliances for the project ebook Telefonica Movistar.

Matilde Prior Sanz has served as Director of Digital Development Santillana Ediciones Generales. Open the general publishing market to digital business has been one of its main tasks.

Also Matilde has extensive experience in developing digital products and services in the education sector, having worked in publishing as Oxford University Press and Santillana.

I studied American Literature at the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos.

In 2004 I founded, along with two students from my university, Sarita Cartonera editorial.Since then I am the editor of Contemporary Latin American literature that label.

I also work in publishing textbooks and research texts of Peruvian art and design educational programs that combine literature and art publishing.

Mohamed M. Hammu is culturally and geographically from nomadic childhood as born-border (Melilla and Morocco) and experience the mixture of cultures, religions and human eyes.

In Granada, Andalucia, studying translation and oral re-discover the Berber women that he never leaves his world, full of emotions and wisdom.

Not to forget and erase the memory, writes:

•  CUENTOS  Y  RELATOS  DE  ANDALUCÍA  Y  MARRUECOS.
Editorial Alfar.  ISBN: 8478982558 ISBN-13: 9788478982554

Read more: Mohamed M. Hammu

[Trilce has a catalog of over eight hundred titles, published between thirty and fifty books a year.]

Founding member (2001) of the "International Alliance of Independent Publishers," and was the coordinator of Spanish-speaking network. [The Redhead IAIA brings together over 139 Hispanic publishers]

He has participated in numerous international forums and meetings related to cultural industries and independent publishing.

Pablo Moya Editions co-founded Miracle label specializing in theater and film, founded nearly 20 years in Mexico City and currently co-directs with David Olguin.

He studied Graphic Design in the eighties in Italy since then has specialized in editorial design. He has collaborated and worked with publishers and institutions in Mexico.

Founding member of the Alliance of Independent Publishers Mexicanas at two different times has been its president, a position he currently occupies.

Paola is first and foremost a communicator.

Linguist by training, with a specialization in intercultural communication, he began working as a print journalist in England and then France, where he was also a correspondent for Argentine cable channel on economics and politics.

Is now more than 12 years working in production and cultural management in different countries and different sectors of art and culture including the entertainment, audiovisual production (film and TV) and editing.

He lives in Argentina from where he is attending the coordination of the Spanish-speaking network (Redhead) of the International Alliance of independent publishers.

Paulina Chiziane Mozambican writer, was born on June 4, 1955 in Manjacaze, province of Gaza. Raised in the suburbs of Maputo City where she studied. He attended the course in Linguistics at the University Eduardo Mondlane unfinished. He began his literary activity in 1984, publishing stories Mozambican press.

Storyteller, art he learned from his grandmother.

Paul invites us to the complicity of stories that deal with the experiences of hard times, hope or love, women and Africa. The debate between tradition and modernity that the author knows of oral transfer to paper.

His collaboration with the Mozambique Red Cross, contributed to a more concrete with the living reality in their country, which is also reflected in writing.

Read more: Paulina Chiziane

Degree in Philology and Cultural Action Technician (University of Abomey-Calavi, Benin).

He holds a Master in Teaching Spanish as a Foreign Language (University of Valladolid, Spain) and has developed a teaching professor of foreign languages ​​in Benin.

Has been a consultant and coordinator of international cooperation projects and integration of ICT in African schools. He teaches courses in intercultural mediation, co-development and International Development Cooperation.

It has also been Director of Centro Hispano-African Madrid. He currently serves as Chairman of DESTINATION BENIN (NGOs) and Member of the Forum Inter-Development and Integration.

Russell Clarke has been a project manager at Jacana Media – South Africa’s largest independent trade publishing house – since 2006. Jacana Media is a ground-breaking and fiercely independent publisher that produces material in the fields of public health, the arts, natural history, fiction, South African history and current affairs, as well as lifeskills and educational material for public and school libraries.

We publish work from some of the most imaginative and clear-thinking minds of our time. Our books respond to the challenges of the moment and provoke debate.

Jacana also distributes the books of like-minded publishing houses. Our agencies include Arcadia Books, Bradt, Earthscan, IDASA, Myriad Editions, Old Street Publishing, Pluto Press, Prestel, Robert’s and Two Dogs.

I'm the director - editor of Atlas since 2000.

I graduated from Damascus University with a degree in French literature and post-graduate of McGill University in Montreal, with an MBA.

I have done several courses and have received training related to the book industry in the Arab and foreign countries. I speak, write and read in Arabic, English and French (high).