Elaine Vilar Madruga: 'I’m always thinking about Kafka when I write'

Podcast: Fictionable · Fictionable

Opublikowano: 2026-08-27

This Summer series we've already heard from Will Boast, EC Osondu, Robin Munby and Zhenya Oliinyk. But we bring it to a close with Elaine Vilar Madruga and her short story Wild, translated from Spanish by Samantha Luna. Wild is not only a story about vengeance, Vilar Madruga says, it's also "a story about hope". "It's about sisterhood and it's about resilience," she continues. "It's about the possibility of survivors telling their own stories. Having their own agenda, Having our own words." Women have always spoken about male violence, Vilar...