Secrets from the Green Room
Secrets from the Green Room
Irma Gold & Karen Viggers
Season 7: Episode 77: Ingrid Rojas Contreras (Pulitzer Prize finalist)
39 minutes Posted Jan 26, 2026 at 10:00 pm.
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Irma and Karen chat about the year ahead, and dive into their first Book Chat of the year, championing Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell, and Colony by Annika Norlin. Then Karen talks to Colombian writer Ingrid Rojas Contreras about how she coped with all the international attention after being a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, how the violence of the Pablo Escobar era stimulated her curiosity as a writer, caring for yourself when writing from trauma, how she uses inherited stories and hauntings in...