Spanish Crime Writer Víctor del Árbol in the Humanities Research

B O O K C O N V E R S AT I O N
Spanish Crime Writer Víctor del Árbol
in the Humanities Research Centre
Tuesday 9 August 1-2pm
Author
Víctor del Árbol
Barcelona, Spain
Chair
Lilit Thwaites
La Trobe University
Translator
Consuelo Martínez Reyes
Australian National University
Location
HRC Conference Room
A.D. Hope Building #14,
Ellery Crescent, ANU
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Enquiries
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Presented by
Humanities Research
Centre
School of Literature,
Languages and Linguistics
ANU College of
Arts & Social Sciences
Join us for a conversation with Víctor del Árbol, 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.
Further support for this event from
CRICOS# 00120C