The Spanish writer speaks with the Mexican ELPAÍS columnist about her new book, 'Te dí ojos y miraste las tinieblas,' a story of living and dead women in rural environments, which she presents for the first time in Mexico.

Hay Festival de Querétaro, which is organized from September 7 to 10, has a program of more than 100 activities, with participants from 20 countries. This Friday, Irene Solà (Spain, 23 years old) is the author of the publishing hit ‘Canto yo y la montaña baila’ (2019), originally written in Catalan and translated into at least twenty languages, with more than thirteen editions in circulation and worthy of the Cálamo 2019 award and the 2020 European Prize for Fiction.

This polyphonic novel tells the stories of peasants, poets, witches, mothers, and ghosts, amid the magnificence of an exuberant and implacable natural world, high in the Pyrenees. Solá talks with Yásnaya Elena Aguilar about her extraordinary novel and her new book, ‘Te dí ojos y mirastes las tinieblas.’

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