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Liliana Colanzi talks to Ángel Gurría-Quintana

South to North Conversations: Language, Memory and Community in the Face of Disaster

Hay Festival 2026, 

Bolivian writer Liliana Colanzi discusses the ideas of collapse, language, kinship and memory that show up in her works, with literary journalist and translator Ángel Gurría-Quintana.

Colanzi’s short stories (You Glow in the Dark, Our Dead World) build eerie dystopian landscapes out of the decimated ruins of post-nuclear Latin America, in a style that feels both very real and completely otherworldly.

Liliana Colanzi talks to Ángel Gurría-Quintana