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David Mitchell talks to Juan Gabriel Vásquez

Segovia 2011, 
English writer David Mitchell, nominated for the Man Booker Prize on two occasions for his novels Number dream and Cloud Atlas, has gathered a huge following with some of his works such asBlack Swan Green, which has been translated into Spanish and compared by critics with classic greats of the genre such asCatcher in the Rye (J. D. Salinger) and Lord of the Flies (W. Golding). In 2010 he publishedThe thousand autumns of Jacob de Zoet, a love story set in 18th century Japan. Mitchell talks to Colombian writer Juan Gabriel Vásquez, winner of the Premio Alfaguara 2011 for El ruido de las cosas al caer.
Simultaneous translation will be available from English into Spanish.