The Festival de Género Negro de Valencia, known as Valencia Negra or VLC Negra, is an annual

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, Spain. It is one of several festivals in the first week of

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Semana Negra In Spain, a Semana Negra ("black week") is a literary festival that celebrates crime fiction and detective stories with a variety of events for literature, cinema, theater, photography and gastronomy. The term "black week" refers to how the week-l ...

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. This festival was founded in 2013 by Valencian writers Jordi Llobregat, Marina López Martínez (Marina Lomar), Santiago Álvarez, and Bernardo Carrión. The festival was initially conceived as an event open to all and hosts a wide range of activities and competitions, including award shows, artist meetings, musical performances, and film viewings. Since its inception, Valencia Negra has gone international by agreeing to collaborate with the French festival '' Toulouse Polard du Sud''.

Awards

Several literary award competitions are held during the festival. * Francisco Gonzalez Ledesma Literary Career Award - VLC Negra * Best VLC Negra Novel (Three Award categories: Millor novel la, Mejor Novela, and Best Novel) * #60en Negro - Certamen de MiniClips * #140tirs. Microrelatos Competition

Participants (selected)

Over the years there has been a wide range of participants in the festival.{{Cite web , title=Autores , trans-title=Authors , url=http://www.valencianegra.com/autores/ , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140705105553/http://www.valencianegra.com:80/autores/ , archive-date=2014-07-05 , access-date=2014-04-29 , website=Valencianegra.com *

Pierre Lemaitre Pierre Lemaitre (born 19 April 1951) is a Prix Goncourt-winning French author and a screenwriter, internationally renowned for the crime novels featuring the fictional character Commandant Camille Verhœven. His first novel to be translated in ...

Philip Kerr Philip Ballantyne Kerr (22 February 1956 – 23 March 2018) was a British author, best known for his Bernie Gunther series of historical detective thrillers. Early life Kerr was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, where his father was an enginee ...

* Joel Dicker * Alicia Gimenez Bartlett *

Petros Markaris Pétros Márkaris (; born Bedros Markarian) is a Greek crime fiction writer. He is known for his detective novels starring the grumpy Athenian police investigator Costas Haritos. Early life and education The son of an Armenian entrepreneur an ...

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Dolores Redondo Dolores Redondo Meira (born 1 February 1969) is a Spanish writer of noir novels, author of the ''Baztán Trilogy'', and winner of the 2016 Premio Planeta de Novela literary prize. Biography Dolores Redondo began studying for her law degree at ...

Lorenzo Silva Lorenzo Manuel Silva Amador (born 7 June 1966 in Carabanchel, Madrid) is a Spanish award-winning writer. After earning a law degree at the Complutense University of Madrid, Universidad Complutense of Madrid, he worked as a lawyer from 1992 to 2002 ...

* Victor del Árbol * Alexis Ravello * Juan Madrid * Jerome Tristant * Graziella Moreno * Andrew Martin *

Enrique Urbizu Enrique Urbizu (born 1962) is a Spanish film director and screenwriter. A native of Bilbao, he was one of the few Spanish film directors who brought the film noir into the late Spanish film industry. Urbizu graduated from Universidad del País V ...

* Rodrigo Cortes *

Rosa Montero Rosa Montero Gayo (; born 3 January 1951) is a Spanish journalist and author of contemporary fiction. Early life and education The daughter of a bullfighter and a housewife, Montero was born in Cuatro Caminos, a district of Madrid. The contra ...

* Carlos Salem * Rosa Ribas * Edith Checa * Marcelo Lujan * Carlos Zanón *

Sandrone Dazieri Sandrone Dazieri (born 4 November 1964) is a popular Italian crime writer. His most famous work is the Gorilla series, an episode of which was also dramatized as a television film. Biography He was born in Cremona in 1964. He graduated at San Pe ...

* David Llorente *

Agustín Díaz Yanes Agustín Díaz Yanes (born 1950, in Madrid) is a Spanish Goya Award-winning screenwriter and film director. Filmography Screenwriter * ''Al límite'' (1997) * '' Belmonte'' (1995) * '' Demasiado corazón'' (1992) * '' A solas contigo'' (199 ...

References

External links

Valencia Negra Official Website

Semana Negra Official Website

Awards

Participants (selected)

References

External links

See also