Guillermo Quijas

Guillermo Quijas (Oaxaca, 1982) is the founder of Editorial Almadía, an independent press with a presence in Mexico, Spain, and across Latin America. Over the past two decades, Almadía has built a literary catalogue that brings together generations and territories, publishingbooks that engage with the present while finding readers over time.

He also directs La Proveedora, a bookstore in Oaxaca with a 76-year history, as well as the bookstore Casa Tomada in Mexico City. From 2003 to 2020, he served as director of the Oaxaca International Book Fair, consolidating it as a meeting space for authors and readers from different countries.

He lives in Madrid, where together with his partner he founded the bookstore Las Indomables, a space devoted to literary conversation and the intersection of Ibero-American voices.