Antonio Muñoz Molina in conversation with Ana Gavín

One of Spain’s most popular novelists discusses his latest book, Como la sombra que se va (Like the shadow that leaves), which chronicles James Earl Ray’s time in Lisbon after murdering Martin Luther King in April 1968. At the same time as detailing Ray’s efforts to secure a visa for Angola, where he hoped to escape, Antonio Muñoz Molina reflects on his own time in the Portuguese capital in the late 1980s and the processes that led him to write the novel that made his name: Winter in Lisbon. The author talks to Ana Gavín, head of editorial relations at Planeta, one of Spain’s biggest publishers.