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Selva Almada in conversation with Catalina González

A Latin American perspective on an old empire

Jericó 2024, 

Selva Almada (Argentina), a journalist and writer, is one of the most respected authors in Latin American literature. Author of the non-fiction Chicas muertas (2014) and of the novels El viento que arrasa (2012), No es un río (2020) and Brickmakers (2021), her books have been translated into at least nine languages and, among other awards, she received the 2019 First Book Award given at the Edinburgh International Book Festival. She has contributed to an anthology that the Hay Festival and Anagrama have published recently, one about how the Latin America collections reached the British Museum. She will talk about her recent work with Catalina González.

Selva Almada in conversation with Catalina González