Instituto Cervantes London

Karina Pacheco, Carlos Fonseca and Erna von der Walde in conversation with Gaby Wood.

Here are some moments from last week’s panel presenting Unveiling Stories: Writers in the general Archive of Indies an ambitious literary project that asks a simple question: what happens when contemporary writers read these documents not as historians, but as storytellers?

Published in English by Charco Press just a few weeks ago, the anthology invites readers to rediscover one of the world’s richest historical collections through the lens of literature,.

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