Authors Agustina Bazterrica and Hari Kunzru reunite for a conversation they started at Hay Festival Arequipa, Peru in 2024 as part of the Hay Festival and British Council’s Equity Series that pairs authors from the UK and around the world.
Argentinian novelist Bazterrica’s The Unworthy is a disturbing dystopian novel about the House of the Sacred Sisterhood – the only refuge available after the world has collapsed – and the resentments of the women who live there. Kunzru’s Blue Ruin is about Jay, a rising star of the London art scene who was once tipped for greatness, but now lives out of his car and earns money delivering groceries, while a terrible pandemic rages.
The pair talks to Toby Lichtig, fiction and politics editor of the Times Literary Supplement.
