Fabiola Hablützel and María Larrea in conversation with Clara Elvira Ospina

Two authors examine, through their work, the meaning of family and identity as linked to origins and nationality. Fabiola Hablützel (Peru/Chile) presents La hermana del medio, a moving story about the importance of family and our place in the world. With her fiftieth birthday approaching, her mother reveals a secret that had been kept from her all her life, that Fabiola was adopted. The impact of the news leads the author to undertake a journey of self-discovery, from the streets of Callao to Santiago de Chile and Buenos Aires, Argentina. The director, screenwriter and novelist María Larrea (Spain/France) was born in Bilbao (Spain) and grew up in Paris, where she studied film at La Fémis. She presents her first novel, Los de Bilbao nacen donde quieren, in which Larrea tells the story, backwards, of a complicated family history, with illegal adoptions in the dying days of the Franco dictatorship. In conversation with Clara Elvira Ospina.