Piety Bonnett evokes the loneliness, exclusion and suffering of human beings at the inauguration of the FILBo

The opening of the International Book Fair in Bogotá (FILBo), one of the largest literary encounters in the Hispanic world, took place on Friday night. In her reflection on this year’s theme, The Words of the Body, Colombian writer Piedad Bonnett called on literature to focus on the multiple violence faced by humanity: the exclusion of migrants, the death of innocent children in wars, the notions of productivity that retard the mental health of …

Loneliness makes you sick. But being alone can also enrich you – if you see it as an opportunity and use the time for self-reflection.