One is the Planeta Award runner-up and Nadal Award winner Manuel Vilas, who will talk about his travels in the United States as recounted in his recently reprinted América, from the wild and premonitory moments to the surrealistic, science fiction elements mixed in with ghost motels, impassioned presidents and nods to The Simpsons. The other Planeta, meanwhile, is Planeta Lasvi [Planet Lasvi], the YA science fiction novel published this year by Nadal Award winner Ana Merino, with a title in which fans of word puzzles may be able to find a trace of Vilas, whose realist El mejor libro del mundo [The Best Book in the World] is hot off the press. Amidst robots, blue vegetables and emigrants from Earth with an environmentalist message, all on a par with the creativity of the author’s father, master of the fantastic José María Merino, these two Nadal award winners will talk with journalist and translator Milo J. Krmpotić to discuss these works and others, from Vilas at his most surreal to Merino’s explorations of dystopia, comics and fantastic genres as a whole. Ready for a double journey?

Guests:

Manuel Vilas

Ana Merino

Moderator:

Milo J. Krmpotić