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Pedro Badrán and Alia Trabucco in conversation with Vanessa de la Torre

Cartagena 2023, Saturday 28 January 2023

The writer, born in Magangué (Colombia), presents his most recent novel, Crímenes de provincia. Pedro Badrán has received the National Novella Prize (2000) for El día de la mudanza and since then has won other awards for books such as Un cadáver en la mesa es mala educación and La pasión de Policarpa. He is the author of the short story collections El lugar difícil, Simulacros de amor, Hotel Bellavista y otros cuentos del mar, Manual de superación personal y otros cuentos and Margarita entre cerdos, as well as the novel El hombre de la cámara mágica. Alia Trabucco, a graduate in Law from the University of Chile, with a Master’s in Creative Writing from New York University and a doctorate in Hispano-American Literature from University College, London, is the author of the novel La resta (shortlisted for the 2019 Man Booker International Prize) and of the non-fiction Las homicidas (2019). Her new novel is entitled Limpia. In conversation with Vanessa de la Torre.