Carolina Sanín (Colombia), a Doctor of Hispanic Literature from the University of Yale, writer, actor, academic and communicator, is a major figure in Spanish-language literature. She is the author of novels such as Todo en otra parte and Los niños; biography: Alfonso X: Desventurado rey Sabio and El ojo de la casa; stories for children including Dalia and La gata sola; the short story collections Ponqué y otros cuentos and Yosoyu; and the hybrid books Somos luces abismales and Tu cruz en el cielo desierto. Sanín presents a new book, El Sol, which is a challenge to traditional literary genres, mingling essay, poetry and fiction. In conversation with Eva Orúe.