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María Dueñas in conversation with Ana Gavín

María Dueñas’ exiles

Segovia 2025, 

Destiny of people isn’t always marked by human relationships. Geography heavily conditions lives that would have developed differently in other circumstances. Specially, if it is the exile forced by poverty, Above all, when exile is driven by poverty, it forces people to reinvent themselves and carve out a new path. María Dueñas writes with agility about lives transformed by necessity. From her debut novel The Seamstress ('El tiempo entre costuras'), followed by Sira, to her latest work, Por si un día volvemos, her stories span cities like Tétouan, New York, Oran, and Jerez —places and geographies that play a vital role in her fiction. Since 2009, she has enjoyed a remarkable literary journey, with over three million books sold in 15 languages. She is also a professor of English literature and a researcher. She will speak with Ana Gavín, director of Editorial Relations at Grupo Planeta.

At the end of the event, the author will sign copies of her books

Event in Spanish