Within the framework of the Eñe 2025 Festival, next Wednesday 26 November at 7 pm, the Polish writer Aleksandra Lun (pictured), author of The Palimpsests and Chemistry for Mosquitoes, will discuss the dream of Europe in danger together with the Ukrainian writer Margaryta Yakovenko, author of Desencajada, and the Colombian writer Héctor Abad Faciolince, whose latest book, Ahora y en la hora, tells of a life-changing trip to war-torn Ukraine.
The conversation, sponsored by the Instituto Polaco de Cultura, will take place at the Instituto Cervantes in Madrid (calle Alcalá, 49). Free admission until capacity is full.
Aleksandra Lun (Gliwice, 1979) left Poland at the age of 19, paid for her studies in Spanish philology in Spain by working in a casino and now lives in Brussels. His first book, Los palimpsestos, written in Spanish, translated into English, French and Dutch, and he received the PEN/Heim grant from PEN America. Her second novel, Chemistry for Mosquitoes (Gutenberg Galaxy, 2024), has been awarded the LIV International Novel Prize City of Barbastro.
