«Total Freedom»: Pablo Katchadjian in Conversation with Munir Hachemi

The Granada City of Literature Unesco office, in collaboration with the Centro Federico García Lorca, is organising a literary conversation with one of the most outstanding contemporary Argentinean writers, Pablo Katchadjian. The conversation will be led by Munir Hachemi and is entitled “Total Freedom”. 7 May 2024, at 7:30 p.m., in the Sala Talleres of the Centro Federico García Lorca. Free admission until full capacity is reached.

Pablo Katchadjian

Pablo Katchadjian was born in Buenos Aires in 1977. He has published the novels Una oportunidad (2022), Amado Señor (2020), En cualquier lado (2017), La libertad total (2013) and Qué hacer (2010); the short stories collection Tres cuentos espirituales (2019) and El caballo y el gaucho (2016); other books of more dubious genre such as La cadena del desánimo (2012), Mucho trabajo (2011), El Aleph engordado (2009) and El Martín Fierro ordenado alfabéticamente (2007); and the poetry books el cam del alch (2005) and dp canta el alma (2004). In collaboration with Marcelo Galindo and Santiago Pintabona, he published La Gioconda (2016) and los albañiles (2005), and in collaboration with Alan Courtis, No arredran (2023). He teaches at the University of Buenos Aires and the National University of the Arts; he gives workshops and writing clinics. His work has been translated into English, French, Portuguese, Armenian, Hebrew and Dutch.

Munir Hachemi

Munir Hachemi (Madrid, 1989) was born on a rainy Saturday. He began selling his stories in fanzine format in the bars of Lavapiés with the literary collective Los escritores bárbaros. In 2015 he published his first novel, Los pistoleros del eclipse (ebediziones), translated into Chinese by Xual Le, Gabriel García Márquez’s translator into Chinese, and a second novel, self-published, under the title 废墟. His last novels publised are Cosas vivas (2018), and El árbol viene (2023). In 2021 he was selected by Granta as one of the “25 best writers in Spanish language under 35 (years old)”. In 2022 he published the poetry collection Los restos, with which he won the poetry prize El Ojo Crítico of Radio Nacional de España; In 2023 he published Arqueología del fracaso, a biography of Gonzalo Torrente Malvido. He also is a translator from English and Mandarin. He admires courage and intelligence.