We always love receiving Patricio Pron in our bookstore. On this occasion he will tell us about his new book “In everything there is a crack and the light enters through it” (Ed. Anagram). A meditation on ecological grief, violence, the finitude, art as resistance and the possibility of hope. The bookseller Óscar Brox will talk with the author.
About the author:
Patricio Pron He is the author of six books of stories, between them: The world without the people who make it ugly and ruin it (2010), The Indoor Life of Houseplants (2013) y What is there and is not used will strike us down (2018), and eight novels, as The beginning of spring (2008), The spirit of my parents continues to rise in the rain (2011 y 2024), We walk in dreams (2014), Do not shed your tears for anyone who lives in these streets (2016), Tomorrow we will have other names (2019), The secret nature of the things of this world (2023) y In everything there is a crack and the light enters through it (2026); the dream diary dream book (2022) and the trials The crossed out book: Practices of denial and silence in the crisis of literature (2014) y No, don't think in a white rabbit: Literature, money, time, influence, falsification, criticism, future (2022). A "duel" against a language model in which he was involved resulted in the book Pron vs. Prompt (2024). In 2010 Grant chose him as one of the twenty-two best writers in Spanish of his generation. It has been Director’s Guest in Civitella Ranieri and Santa Maddalena, visiting professor at the Department of Literature, University of Cologne, y fellow en el Erich Auerbach Institute for Advanced Studies, and in the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. His work has been awarded numerous times, translated into twelve languages and published in more than twenty countries. Pron has a doctorate in Romance Philology from the Georg-August University of Göttingen and lives in Madrid with his wife and two cats..
