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Streaming with Layla Martínez

Conference with prior reservation and streaming broadcast.

Layla Martínez (Cuenca, Spain, 1987). The narrator, essayist and poet Layla Martínez has resituated the value of utopia in a world that repudiates it, while at the same time opening up a futuristic realm beyond the establishment of “utopia” as an exclusive synonym of technology. In her essay Utopía no es una isla, Martínez achieves this by interweaving critique, humanism and science fiction. In 2024, she was shortlisted for the National Book Award for her novel Carcoma, published in an English translation as Woodworm. Her other published books include El libro de la crueldad and Cineraria.