Alonso Cueto (Peru), winner of the Herralde Novel Prize for The Blue Hour, the Alcobendas-Juan Goytisolo Fiction Prize for Palabras de otro lado and shortlisted for the Planeta-Casa de América Prize with El susurro de la mujer ballena, presents his latest book, Francisca: Princesa del Perú. This is a historical novel set in the 16th century, which tells the story of Francisca Pizarro Huaylas Yupanqui, daughter of the Inca princess Quispe Sisa and Francisco Pizarro, and known as the first mixed race child of Peru. Through the private viewpoint of Francisca, the author shows that this complex and traumatic story illustrates the relationship between Spain and Latin America, and is also the beginning of future mixtures and migrations. In conversation with the BBC journalist Juan Carlos Pérez.
