13/04/2026, 19:00
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The MOP Talks: Lionel Shriver
SERIES OF TALKS WITH FEMALE WRITERS: LIONEL SHRIVER
The MOP Foundation is launching a new initiative as part of The MOP Talks, its series of events open to the public featuring leading figures from contemporary culture and creative arts. This series of conversations with female writers will bring Tatiana Ţîbuleac, Ottessa Moshfegh and Lionel Shriver to A Coruña, with cultural journalist Andrea Aguilar acting as moderator.
The final event in the series will take place on Monday 13 April and will feature the American writer Lionel Shriver, who has been a leading figure on the international literary scene since winning the prestigious Women’s Prize for Fiction in 2005 for We Need to Talk About Kevin.
Tickets available from 30 March at 11:00 am.
LIONEL SHRIVER
Lionel Shriver (Gastonia, North Carolina, 1957) is a journalist and writer. In 2005, with several novels to her name, she received the prestigious Women’s Prize for Fiction for We Need to Talk About Kevin, a bestseller that definitively established her on the international literary scene. In addition to this, she has published the following novels in Spain with Anagrama: The Post-Birthday World, So Much for That, Big Brother: A Novel, The Mandibles, The Motion of the Body Through Space and Mania.
ANDREA AGUILAR
Andrea Aguilar (Madrid, 1978), a cultural journalist with a degree in History and Politics from the University of Kent, was a fellow at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism in 2007 and lived in New York until 2014. She is an editor at the newspaper El País, where she has been writing for over two decades, mainly on literary and cultural topics. Her work, with a particular focus on interviews with authors, has been published in magazines such as The Paris Review, Letras Libres and The Reading Room Journal. She co-edited the book Upstairs at The Strand. Writers in Conversation at the Legendary Bookstore (WW Norton, 2016).