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English Language Broadcast - America attends Madrid's crime fiction festival - 28/10/23


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Madrid's Crime Fiction fair, 'Getafe Negro', had it's 16th edition this week, and this year's guest country was the United States. The poet Anne Carson opened the festival, and American author Don Wislow was awarded the José Luis Sampedro prize. The festival's logo is a raven, as Edgar Allen Poe is understood by many to be at the roots of the 'crime ficiton' literary genre... Julia García, one of the festival's curators, tells us about its origins in the US and how it arrived in Spain, as well as the current popularity of the genre here.
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