Feature Bogotá39
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HEN THE HAY Festival launched Bogotá39 back in 2007, it did not necessarily have global ambitions for the undertaking. The project
was broadly similar to various “best young novelists” roll calls, such as Granta’s “20 under 40” Best of Young British Novelists list, which launched in 1983 in the UK with a formidable class that included Kazuo Ishig- uro, Julian Barnes, Salman Rushdie and Ian McEwan. The first Bogotá39 fêted 39 writers under the age of 40
from across Latin America, and brought them all to the Colombian capital in 2007 to celebrate the cit being that year’s UNESCO World Book Capital. Cristina Fuentes La Roche, Hay’s international direc-
tor, who was instrumental in seting up the 2007 group, says the “aim was to celebrate good literature, as well as emphasising the talent and diversit of the region’s literary production. However, we didn’t want to estab- lish a canon but rather a generational conversation with
The globetroting Hay Festival’s initiative to raise the profile
of writers in Latin America has taken root, with its second class increasingly coming to global atention. Tom Tivnan reports
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