Event HJ2

Victoria Belim in conversation with Eduardo de la Garma de la Rosa and Alejandra Martínez Quesada

Hay Festival Lviv Bookforum series

Venue: Tec de Monterrey, Punto Blanco

Journalist, writer and Farsi-language translator. Victoria Belim (Ukraine) grew up in the United States and currently lives in Belgium. She speaks 20 languages, including Chinese, Japanese and Indonesian. Her literary debut is entitled The Rooster House (2023) and is a work of memoire, told as a novel, about Vika, a woman who returns to the Ukraine of her birth to investigate the death of her great-great uncle in the 1930s. It is an exploration of the history of a country marked by conflict and devastation, one with a new war just beginning. Belim narrates this story, which is about both a family and a nation, in prose that is captivating, mysterious and beautiful. In conversation with Eduardo de la Garma de la Rosa and Alejandra Martínez Quesada.

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Victoria Belim in conversation with Eduardo de la Garma de la Rosa and Alejandra Martínez Quesada

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