Juan Pablo Villalobos in Conversation with Daniel Hahn

Juan Pablo Villalobos and Daniel Hahn

Juan Pablo Villalobos in Conversation with Daniel Hahn

Juan Pablo Villalobos and Daniel Hahn

2:00pm

Saturday, October 31, 2020

45 mins

Join British author and translator Daniel Hahn as he speaks with Mexican author Juan Pablo Villalobos. Juan’s latest book, I Don’t Expect Anyone to Believe Me, is a thriller around a student who gets kidnapped and has to court a politician’s daughter to be freed. His debut novel, Down the Rabbit Hole, was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award. Presented in English.

Join British author and translator Daniel Hahn as he speaks with Mexican author Juan Pablo Villalobos. Juan’s latest book, I Don’t Expect Anyone to Believe Me, is a thriller around a student who gets kidnapped and has to court a politician’s daughter to be freed. His debut novel, Down the Rabbit Hole, was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award. Presented in English.

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Juan Pablo Villalobos was born in Guadalajara, Mexico, in 1973. He studied marketing and Spanish literature, before working as a market researcher, and writing travel stories and literary and film criticism. He has researched topics as diverse as the influence of the avant-garde on the work of César Aira and the flexibility of pipelines for electrical installations. His books include his Guardian First Book Award-shortlisted debut Down the Rabbit Hole, as well as Quesadillas and I’ll Sell You a Dog. He is married with two Mexican-Brazilian-Italian-Catalan children. I Don’t Expect Anyone to Believe Me is his fourth novel.

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Daniel Hahn is a writer, editor and translator with about seventy books to his name. Recent translations include Gonçalo M. Tavares's Plague Diary, Juan Pablo Villalobos's I Don't Expect Anyone to Believe Me and (in a co-translation) the memoir of football manager Arsène Wenger. His work has won him the International Dublin Literary Award and the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and been shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize, among many others. He is a past chair of the UK writers' union The Society of Authors, and the Translators Association.

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2:00pm

Saturday, October 31

45 mins

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