Join us for a conversation with this award-winning author from Barcelona, followed by a Q&A. A public event in English from the Reading Across Borders public lecture series. Lilit Thwaites (translator) will lead the conversation with Víctor, and Consuelo Martínez Reyes will interpret for the author.

Víctor del Árbol holds a degree in History from the University of Barcelona. He worked as a civil servant (mosso d’escuadra) from 1992 until 2011. He was the runner-up for the VIII Fernando Lara Award with El abismo de los sueños (2003), and won the Tiflos de Novela Award with El peso de los muertos (2006). La tristeza del samurai (Alrevés, 2011; The Sadness of the Samurai, Henry Holt, 2012) was translated into 10 languages and received Le Prix du Polar Européen 2012 and was runner-up of the Prix Polar SNCF 2013 in France. This was followed by Respirar por la herida (Alrevés 2013; The Heart Tastes Bitter, Scribe, 2016), and Un millón de gotas (2014) winner of the Grand Prix de Littérature Policière 2015 and best foreign noir novel (Magazine Lire). His latest novel, La víspera de casi todo (The Eve of Almost Everything), was awarded the 2016 Nadal Prize.

This event is free and open to the public.

http://www.victordelarbol.com/

Presented by

Humanities Research Centre
School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics
ANU College of
Arts & Social Sciences

Further support from

Acción Cultural Española