Santiago Roncagliolo talks to Lucy Popescu

Award-winning Peruvian novelist, screenwriter and journalist Santiago Roncagliolo talks about his work.

Roncagliolo was deported from Peru to Mexico with his family when he was aged two. Although the family returned to their homeland, he is now based in Spain. His work is characterised by psychological suspense and black humour and deals with fear in Latin American history and daily life. His novel, Red April, won the Alfaguara Prize and the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. His non-fiction work Memorias de una Dama, which traces the origins of the mafia in Cuba, was censored and publication is prohibited worldwide. Other well-known works include La Pena Máxima, a story set in the 1978 football World Cup during the Argentinian dictatorship. Here he talks to writer, editor and arts critic Lucy Popescu, chair of the Authors’ Club.

Part of the festival’s programme of Spanish and Latin American literature and culture.