The third edition of “Puerto Negro” features the presence of Helene Flood, Sissel Jo-Gazan, Stina Jackson and Mónica Rouanet. In addition to the Mexican Iván Farías and the Argentine writer Loyds.
From yesterday until tomorrow The third version of the “Puerto Negro” festival organized by UNAB is being developed at its headquarters in Santiago and Viña del Mar. This year it has a series of talks, workshops and conversations, and the awarding of the Black Novel Contest organized by the same study house.
One of the featured guests of this day is the Swedish Stina Jacksonwho is being part of the cultural week dedicated to detective literatureto the literary work of writers from both Chile and Latin America and to convene the reading public interested in the police genre.
“I am so happy and excited to be in Chile. I am so happy to visit South America for the first time in my life, and the Puerto Negro Festival seems to be very well organized through the university. I just hope to talk a lot about good novels and celebrate literature. What I look forward to most is meeting Chilean students,” says writer Stina Jackson.
Stina Jackson published “Silver Highway” in 2018his first novel. It was translated into 30 languages and received the Swedish Academy Award for Black Fiction. This genre in the Nordic countries is called nordic noir and includes writers who share obsessions linked to the family, to that violence that incubates inside.
Regarding his motivations for approaching True Crime, Jackson explains: “I think there is a fascination, a learning for this genre, but I also think that It has to happen when people feel pretty secure in their own lives too. Otherwise, I think you can’t assimilate it. I think that people who have a secure life may be more exposed to this literature, podcast or whatever about true crime.”
His visit to Chile took place within the framework of the Puerto Negro festival, although before that he visited other places in Latin America, in which his time in Buenos Aires stands out. “While there I talked a lot with Peruvian authors who taught me a lot about crime in Peru. So I feel like I’m learning a lot about different countries and the way crime novels are written in the region.”adds Stina Jackson.
Stina Jackson is currently living in the United States and recognizes that she has detective writing in her DNA since this type of content was shared in her family while she was growing up, which helped it emerge naturally. Currently, I recognize having the focus on all the women who are disappearing in Canada, watching documentaries on this matter and witnessing how the police have not been able to solve these murders and disappearances, adding more and more every month.
“I feel like I don’t have anything else that I’m really as passionate about as writing. I have always been writing since I was very little, I used to write plays at school that we performed. At this point in my life, for me it’s not even necessarily about getting published, it’s more about something I have to do to survive in this world that moves so fast that it’s scary,” concludes the Swedish writer, Stina Jackson, part of the international representatives of Puerto Negro 2024.