Music. Hello and welcome to Meet the Writers.
I'm Georgina Godwin.
My guest today is an Argentinian author known for horror novels and short stories.
She's a multiple award winner and has in turn judged many literary competitions.
She's known for her short story, 19 Claws and a Black Bird,
and the novels Kill the Girl and Tender is the Flesh,
which established her as a best-selling author worldwide,
with translations into 30 languages and half a million copies at least sold in English alone.
Her new short novel is The Unworthy set in a religious society.
It follows the diary entries of one woman in a rigid religious belief system,
believed to be unworthy.
Agostina Basterica, welcome to Meet the Writers.
Thank you so much, Georgina.
It's a pleasure.
We're talking here at Hay Festival in Hayanwai in Wales,
so we're in the green room, so that's why it's a bit noisy.
Yes.
But it's really wonderful to get to have this opportunity to speak to you in person.
We've seen your work, long admired it,
and wanted to just sit opposite face to face and just talk about you and your life and work,