The event will take place on Wednesday 4 November at the Centro Bibliotecario Insular
Peruvian author Gabriela Wiener, who is based in Spain, will be the latest guest in the ‘El escritor y tú’ series on 4 November at 8.00pm in the Josefina Plá Hall at the Centro Bibliotecario Insular.
Wiener, regarded as one of the most disruptive, honest and relevant voices in contemporary Spanish-language literature, will take part in a conversation with editor and independent consultant Diana Hernández.
During the event, the author of titles such as Huaco retrato and Atusparia will discuss aspects of her writing process and social commitment, as well as recurring themes in her work such as identity, decoloniality, the body and new forms of affection.
‘El escritor y tú’, organised by the Centro Bibliotecario Insular and curated by journalist Eloy Vera, began in 2013. Having become a space for reading, dialogue and reflection, the series has welcomed close to fifty authors, including such prominent names in Spanish-language literature as Cristina Fernández Cubas, Maruja Torres, Juan José Millás, Luis Landero, Almudena Grandes, Elvira Lindo, Isaac Rosa, Javier Cercas and Fernando Aramburu.
Gabriela Wiener (Lima, 1975) is the author of the books Sexografías, Mozart con priapismo y otras historias, Llamada perdida, Dicen de mí and the poetry collection Ejercicios para el endurecimiento del espíritu. Her writing has appeared in various anthologies and has been translated into English, Portuguese, Polish, German, French and Italian. She was editor-in-chief of Marie Claire magazine in Spain and today regularly publishes opinion columns for elDiario‘s website, Vice and the Spanish-language content of the New York Times, as well as a video column for La Mula. She won her country’s National Journalism Prize for an investigative report on a case of gender-based violence. She has created several literary performances staged together with her family, as well as the play Qué locura enamorarme yo de ti. She currently lives in Madrid.
