11/09/2025, 19:00
Past Event
The MOP Talks
The MOP Talks: Rodrigo Cortés
A CONVERSATION BETWEEN RODRIGO CORTÉS AND RODRIGO FRESÁN
Filmmaker and writer Rodrigo Cortés was the featured guest at the final MOP Talk of the 2025 summer season.
Cortés spoke with fellow writer Rodrigo Fresán about topics such as his unique perspective on artistic creation, his creative processes, and the interplay between the various facets of his multifaceted career. The event concluded with a book signing by both authors.
RODRIGO CORTÉS
Rodrigo Cortés wanted to be a painter, writer, and musician; today he does all three at once by dedicating himself to film. He has worked with actors such as Robert De Niro, Sigourney Weaver, Cillian Murphy, Ryan Reynolds, and Uma Thurman.
As a writer, he published at the end of 2013 A las 3 son las 2, a collection of antiaphorisms, deliriums, and hand grenades, and a year later, Sí importa el modo en que un hombre se hunde, his first novel. In 2016 appeared his new book of brief writings, Dormir es de patos, and in 2021 he published Los años extraordinarios, his second novel.
He writes the Verbolario section for the ABC newspaper, a satirical dictionary that inspired his fifth book of the same title, and regularly contributes to its third page. He published Cuentos telúricos in 2024, his first anthology of stories and his sixth book. He talks about film, literature, and music on the podcasts Aquí hay dragones and Todopoderosos.
RODRIGO FRESÁN
Rodrigo Fresán was born in Buenos Aires in 1963 and has lived in Barcelona since 1999. He is the author of Historia argentina, Vidas de santos, Trabajos manuales, Esperanto, La velocidad de las cosas, Mantra, Jardines de Kensington, El fondo del cielo, the trilogy La Parte Contada (comprising La parte inventada, La parte soñada, and La parte recordada), Melvill, El estilo de los elementos, and El Pequeño Gatsby. The jury of the Best Translated Book Award USA praised La parte inventada with the citation: “Fresán is a master.” In 2017, Fresán received the Prix Roger Caillois in France for his entire body of work, as an “atypical, transgressive, and unmissable writer.”
