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Agustina Bazterrica and Hari Kunzru in conversation with Matías Zibell

Literary pairs

Arequipa 2024, 

As part of the Literary Pairs series run by Hay Festival and the British Council, and an event that will be repeated at the Hay-on-Wye Festival in 2025, the BBC Mundo journalist Matías Zibell will talk to Agustina Bazterrica and Hari Kunzru. Agustina Bazterrica (Argentina) is a writer and cultural manager; as well as short story collections, she has published Tender Is the Flesh, translated into 25 languages, and the novel that she presents here: The Unworthy, a disturbing dystopian book that deals with the matter of friendship. The writer Hari Kunzru (United Kingdom), who has contributed to media outlets such as The New York Times, The Guardian and Wired, has been a fellow of the Guggenheim Foundation, the New York Public Library and the American Academy in Berlin. His novels have won a range of prestigious prizes and have been translated into over 20 languages. He presents Red Pill, a novel about the far right, online culture, creativity, sanity and history.

With simultaneous interpretation from English to Spanish

Agustina Bazterrica and Hari Kunzru in conversation with Matías Zibell