Malba Literatura. Since its foundation the Malba’s Department of Literature has worked to promote contemporary literature by producing new gathering spaces that help writers to discuss their ideas and make themselves known through publications, conference series, interviews and congresses. It brings a monthly calendar of events that include writers, critics and art specialists from Argentina and abroad. Its international program had invited artists as John Coetzee, José Saramago, Orhan Pamuk, Sophie Calle, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Tom Wolfe, Paul Auster, Siri Husdvedt, Nicole Krauss, David Lodge, Hanif Kureishi, Julian Barnes, Gianni Vattimo, Alessandro Baricco, Slalov Zizek, Gayatri Spivak, Richard Ford, Ariana Reines, Peter Adolphsen, Kenneth Goldsmith, Pierre Lemaitre, Franco Moretti, Gonçalo Tavares, Gioconda Belli, Phillipe Lohle, Rabih Mroué, Richard Sennet, Daniel Pennac, Benjamin Lacombe, Lukas Bärfuss, Tilman Rammsted, Saskia Sassen, Anthony Browne, Roger Chartier, Enrique Vila-Matas, Carlos Grassa Toro, Jean Echenoz, Carlos Fuentes, Carlos Monsiváis, Juan Villoro, Mario Bellatin, Jorge Volpi, Nélida Piñón, Arnaldo Antunes, Pedro Lemebel, Alberto Fuguet, William Ospina, Verónica Stigger, Milton Hatoum, among many others.