Nona Fernández is a Chilean writer who wrote How to remember thirst? (Historiographical, 2023) The book narrates the six decades of armed conflict in Colombia. “What is clear is that it cannot continue to be just victimization.

Telling the memory can contain humor, junk and pop,” he says on the terrace of a hotel in Jericó, in the Colombian heart of Antioquia. He was invited to participate in a star baptism in honor of the victims of that brutal event.