Rocío Silva Santisteban and Iban Zaldua in conversation with Jorge Malpartida Tabuchi

We talk to two eminent writers. Rocío Silva Santisteban, Peruvian writer, poet, academic and former member of parliament, is also a researcher and Executive Secretary of the National Department for Human Rights. She has written poems and short stories, published in books such as Me perturbas and Reina del manicomio. She now presents El Quemadero. Cuentos reunidos, a compilation of short stories. The writer and historian Iban Zaldua (Basque Country, Spain) present A escondidas, a revised and enriched version of stories originally published in Inon ez, inoiz ez (2014). This new collection, translated by the author from Basque into Spanish, mingles the fantastic and the real to explore human contradictions and subvert reality, deconstructing it and tackling themes such as humour, climate change and artificial intelligence. They will talk to the writer and journalist Jorge Malpartida Tabuchi, author of the short story collection Contra toda autoridad, excepto…