In novels such as Concerning My Daughter (Picador, 2022) and Soy toda oídos [I’m All Ears] (Las Afueras, 2024), the South Korean author Kim Hye-jin offers a lucid exploration of identity, loss and pain, emotional bonds, and the wounds that affect bodies and persist through history. For her part, Marta Sanz, one of the most enduring voices in contemporary Spanish literature, with works such as My Clavicle (The Unnamed Press, 2025), Pequeñas mujeres rojas [Little Red Women] (Anagrama, 2020), and Los íntimos [Close Connections] (Anagrama, 2024) – explores questions of guilt, the decadence of the body, and resentment through language that is as subversive as it is transformative.  

Despite coming from such different contexts, both authors anchor their narratives in traumatic memory and the weight of the political and social context of their countries, and advocate, each in their own way, for various forms of everyday resistance. This conversation between Marta Sanz and Kim Hye-jin, moderated by the journalist Begoña Gómez Urzaiz, aims to highlight these commonalities between two authors who live thousands of kilometres apart, to demonstrate that, despite geographical and cultural distance, literature is a space of convergence.