BCNegra 2024 - Barcelona

Festival of mystery and intrigue novels

Event date: 
5th to 11th February 2024

Event location:
Various locations

Tickets
Free admission but registration required

BCNegra crime writing festival Barcelona. BCNegra is an annual celebration of crime and mystery fiction writing in Barcelona. BCNegra offers the fans a chance to meet around many crime writers and to participate activities during the festival.
The highlight of BCNegra is the annual Pepe Carvalho award. In memory of the writer Manuel Vázquez Montalbán and his iconic character Pepe Carvalho, every year, during BCNegra, the Pepe Carvalho award is given to a national or international author. Leonardo Padura (2023), Don Winslow (2022), Joyce Carol Oates (2021), Juan Madrid (2020), Claudia Piñeiro (2019), James Ellroy (2018), Dennis Lehane (2017), Donna Leon (2016), Alicia Giménez Bartlett (2015), Andrea Camilleri (2014), Maj Sjöwall (2013), Petros Màrkaris (2012), Andreu Martín (2011), Ian Rankin (2010), Michael Connelly (2009), PD James (2008), Henning Mankell (2007) and Francisco González Ledesma (2006) have received the award so far. In 2024, in its nineteenth edition, the jury made up of Carlos Zanón, as president, and Olga Merino, Lilian Neuman, Esteve Riambau, Xita Rubert and Daniel Vázquez Sallés, as members, has decided to award the Pepe Carvalho prize to Norwegian writer Jo Nesbø.

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