Megan Maxwell, Juan Luis Arsuaga, Elvira Sastre, and the Cervantes Prize winner Sergio Ramírez at the Estepona Literary Festival

As occurred last year, Estepona will become the literary, artistic, creative, and musical capital of Málaga for three days, with events featuring participants such as Cervantes Prize winner Sergio Ramírez, authors Megan Maxwell and Esther García Llovet, journalist Manuel Jabois, paleontologist Juan Luis Arsuaga, and poets Elvira Sastre and Luis García Montero, among others. This is the second edition of the Estepona Literary Festival (FLEST), which will be held from June 27 to 29 at the Centro Cultural Mirador del Carmen. Coordinated by writer Alejandro Simón Partal and organized by the Estepona City Council, the poster for this second edition has been presented. It is an event open to various disciplines that has been described by the mayor, José María García Urbano, as "a firm commitment from the City Council to culture, thought, and the arts" and about the venue, the Mirador del Carmen, "one of the cultural beacons of the province of Málaga throughout the year, due to the exhibitions it hosts and the extensive programming it offers each quarter." Alejandro Simón Partal, head of the Festival, told SUR that all the programming is meticulously designed "for culture and for people. FLEST is organized to promote the Estepona Contemporary Cultures Library as a space that generates life, dynamic, cross-disciplinary, with a human perspective and future-oriented... that is what we aim for with this Festival, to celebrate books and life." The opening of the second edition of FLEST will be carried out by the artist Coco Dávez, who already participated in the first edition last November, with her 'Faceless' exhibition on the central Terraza street, and the official opening ceremony will be at 8:00 PM with Dávez, the Cordoban designer Palomo Spain, art dealer Topacio Fresh, and flamenco singer Soleá Morente. Megan Maxwell, a renowned romantic genre writer, will speak at 9:00 PM with 'Dialogues by the Sea,' a conversation about her work and career alongside writer Sandra Miró. The day will close with a concert by Soleá Morente at 11:00 PM. Art, Poetry, and Journalism The program on Saturday, June 28, will start with a painting workshop by Clara Cebrián and a meeting between Soleá Morente and Coco Dávez 'About Tradition and the Future.' Both activities will take place at 12:00 PM. At 1:00 PM, Palomo Spain and Topacio Fresh will discuss 'Art and Fashion: All Tomorrow's Parties.' In the evening at 8:00 PM, writer Lara Moreno and journalist Martín Bianchi Tasso will talk about 'The Intimate and the Published: City, Society, and Privacy.' Starting at 9:00 PM, the protagonists will be writer Esther García Llovet and writer and journalist Manuel Jabois, followed by 'Meetings at the Lighthouse,' hosted by poet Elvira Sastre. The concert by Malaga-born Anni B Sweet at 11:00 PM will close the day's events. Sunday, June 29, will start at 12:00 PM with a ceramic stamping workshop led by illustrator Abraham Menéndez, known as Abe The Ape, creator of his own brand of decorated plates and collaborator with major brands such as Chanel and Aristocrazy. Additionally, philosopher and astrophysicist Juan Arnau will offer the talk 'Introduction to Sunny Meditation,' based on his book 'The Sunny Meditation.' At 1:00 PM, science communicator and paleontologist Juan Luis Arsuaga will engage in a dialogue with journalist and writer Marta Fernández under the title 'Life, Consciousness, and Other Myths.' In the afternoon, at 8:00 PM, philosopher and writer Hans Laguna, accompanied by Alberto Moreno, will delve into the figure of one of the most universal Spanish singers in the talk 'Julio Iglesias: Legend, Songs, and Truth.' At 9:00 PM, it will be the turn of Nicaraguan writer and 2017 Cervantes Prize winner, Sergio Ramírez. The final concert of this second edition of FLEST will be by singer-songwriter María Rodés. This new edition of FLEST has the collaboration of the General Directorate of Books and Reading Promotion of the Ministry of Culture and Sports and the Social Work of La Caixa.