Fear: An Approach to Santiago Roncagliolo's Fiction

Fear is one of our most essential emotions, and, therefore, those that best define us. The novelistic work of Santiago Roncagliolo has radiographed the fears of the Hispanic world, from everyday life to political history. But Roncagliolo's eclectic work has gone beyond the novel, to non-fiction, the film and television script, including children's literature, as Spanish has become the second language of cultural encounter in the world. This conversation will reveal the keys to the hatching of a language.

Santiago Roncagliolo has told stories in all formats: fiction and journalism, adult and children's literature, books and scripts. His novels, characterized by suspense and black humour, have appeared in more than twenty languages and won awards such as the Alfaguara and the Independent Prize of Foreign Fiction. Two of them are published in English: Red April (Vintage) and Hi, This is Conchita (Two Lines Press).

Organised by Instituto Cervantes London and the Modern Language Centre, King's College