This interview with Salvadorian writer and keynote speaker, Jorge Galán, took place within the context of the International Conference "Libertad de Expresión: diálogos y reflexiones desde el derecho y la literatura", held in Quito, in June 2018. In this dialogue the author"™s thoughts are explored through his most recent novel, November, a significant picture of El Salvador in one of its most violent and uncertain periods of time, the 80"™s. The novel reflects on a famous case: the assassination of José Simeón Cañas (UCA), a member of the Jesuit congregation of the Universidad Centroamericana. In fact, this literary text solves a crime that the Salvadoran judicial system left in impunity. The interview also reflects on the impact of the novel, the writing process, the encounter between literature and law, impunity as a form of injustice, and the power of testimony as the only way to give voice to those who have been silenced.
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