Leila Slimani is spending happy days in Madrid, where she has enjoyed a residency at the Prado Museum that has allowed her to get to know it in depth so she can immerse herself in writing a story about this place. The Franco-Moroccan author, born in Rabat, in 1981, passionately tours the room of Goya’s Black Paintings, where she sees Elon Musk or Donald Trump in the demons that instruct the masses. Winner of the Goncourt Prize, she has completed the trilogy The country of others (Cabaret Voltaire), which addresses the complications and riches of a mixed family like his, with paths of return and estrangement between cultures.
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