Dispatches from Spain: Libroviedo

I’ll start by confessing to my almost complete ignorance of contemporary Spanish literature. Besides Carlos Ruiz Zafón and Javier Marías, I can barely name a Spanish writer who hasn’t been dead for eighty years (Garcia Lorca, Unamuno, Machado). So what a pleasure it was to attend Libroviedo 2019 and to try to update myself. The…