Elvira Sastre in conversation with Eva Orúe

Women in literature often star in powerful stories that always seem to have a fissure of a wound running through them. And that wound is portrayed not as an impediment, but as their incentive to move on in life and, especially, in love. These many truncated stories, which rise together in transcendence over hurt, is what Elvira Sastre and Eva Orúe will talk about.

Sastre, born in Segovia, has published the collections of poems Cuarenta y tres maneras de soltarse el pelo, Baluarte, Ya nadie baila and La soledad de un cuerpo acostumbrado a la herida. She works with musicians, singer-songwriters and other poets. Her novel Días sin ti won the Biblioteca Breve Prize (2019), and she has released Las vulnerabilidades, in which she combines drama with psychological suspense. The writer fills theatres and concert halls with her poetry recitals, and shares her poetry, experiences and her personal world with readers online.

Orúe is a journalist, writer and cultural manager, and currently directs the Madrid Book Fair.

There will be a book signing at the end of the event at the bandstand in the Plaza Mayor

Event in Spanish