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Guillermo Arriaga in conversation with Santiago Vanegas

The Man

Arequipa 2025, 

Guillermo Arriaga (Mexico) is a master of building work through different voices. From 21 Grams, to El salvaje and Babel, his fiction is created through intertwined stories, revealing the many facets of the human identity. In El Hombre, his most recent novel, he brings this style to bear once again: six characters, speaking from different times, all related to Henry Lloyd. Human brutality, that other very Arriaga ingredient, is also present in its pages. He will talk to the BBC Mundo journalist Santiago Vanegas.

LSP Peruvian Sign Language interpretation available