LIES, TIME TRAVEL, FUTURISM AND MURDERS: YOUNG-ADULT FICTION FOR 14 TO 99 YEAR-OLDS
From the humour we encounter in Susana Vallejo's new and entertaining La família Delorean viaja por el tiempo (Edebé), to the intrigue and mystery encountered in the award-winning hybrid crime and fantasy novel Departamento de Asuntos Mágicos (Anaya), by Daniel Hernández Chambers, if the young-adult genre literature demonstrates anything, it is that it can include stories and subgenres for all kinds of audiences. In this roundtable, moderated by the literary communicator Maritxu Olazabal, we explore its limits, from science fiction to fantasy, with Vallejo, Chambers and two other successful exponents of non-mimetic, young-adult literature: Jesús Cañadas, a 42 Prize winner from Cadiz and the author of Noviembre (Edebé), a novel full of imagination where nothing is what it seems, and Manu Carbajo, the film-maker, storyteller and YouTuber from Madrid who has gained great recognition with Equilibrio, a futuristic story of a conflict between two societies that are on the point of changing forever.