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Sabrina Duque and Ingrid Yrivarren in conversation with Enrique Durand Villalobos

Inspirational people

Arequipa 2023, Friday 10 November 2023

The journalist, travel writer and translator, Sabrina Duque (Ecuador), was awarded the 2018 Michael Jacobs Travel Writing Scholarship, granted by the Gabo Foundation, the Hay Festival and the Michael Jacobs Foundation for Travel Writing. Her most recent book, Necesito saber hoy de tu vida, is a compilation of nine profiles of figures linked to Portugal and Brazil from fields that range from lobotomy to football, from childcare to film, from prison to music, and from food to poetry. Ingrid Yrivarren is the author of Tengo el orgullo, a series of portraits of outstanding Peruvians who, as well as being successful, have had direct positive impacts on communities; these include Mario Vargas Llosa, Juan Diego Flórez, Janine Belmont, Carlos Añaños, Julio Velarde, Vania Masías, Juan Carlos Fischer and Ruth Olaechea. Her texts are vignettes that aim to explain the moment when they went from being ordinary people to the ones they are today, and the way in which they inspire other people. In conversation with Enrique Durand Villalobos.