The director of the Fundación Tres Culturas, José Manuel Cervera, and the head of the Fátima Mernissi library and the programmes for the promotion of reading in this institution, Olga Cuadrado, held a first meeting yesterday with the mayor of Granada, Luis Salvador, in order to lay the foundations for future collaborations, especially focused on the next edition of the 'Tres Festival, voces del Mediterráneo' (Three Festival, voices of the Mediterranean). This event, whose third edition will take place from 23 to 25 April 2020 at the Federico García Lorca Centre, brings together every two years the most important writers from the Mediterranean shore in a meeting in which, along with the literary aspect, various current issues are addressed.
With only two editions organised, the Tres Festival has already become one of the leading literary events in the Mediterranean, having brought together authors of the stature of Tahar Ben Jelloun, Alessandro Baricco, Günter Wallraff, Nawal al-Saadawi, Mircea Cartarescu, Almudena Grandes, Nir Baram, Zeina Abirached, Mathias Enard, Luis García Montero, Rutu Modan, Elias Sanbar, Mahi Binebine and Abdelá Taia, among others.
The Mayor of Granada has expressed his commitment to a festival that brings to Granada "the best of literature from both shores" and has shown his total willingness for the whole city to be an accomplice of this meeting. Likewise, Luis Salvador celebrated the good harmony between the festival and the institution and framed the direct relationship of this event with the great final objective of making Granada the European Capital of Culture 2031.
Previously, the director of Tres Culturas and the head of the library also met with Sara Navarro, director of the Centro Federico García Lorca, which will once again host the Tres Festival.