Munir Hachemi’s career as a writer began with them selling their stories in the form of fanzines in the bars of the Lavapiés neighbourhood of Madrid. They are the author of Living Things (2018) and The Mulai (2023), and they are also a translator from Chinese and English. In 2021, they appeared on Granta’s Best of Young Spanish-Language Novelists list.

‘The Mulai [is] Hachemi’s second short novel to be translated from Spanish to English by Julia Sanches, whose rendering of Hachemi’s prose always sounds alive and attuned to the nuances of the original ... [I]t is both playful and hedonistic, and the work of a writer who takes an original approach to exploring the instability of language, identity and, in this extraplanetary experiment, what might lie beyond.’ — Max Liu, Financial Times

Munir Hachemi’s career as a writer began with them selling their stories in the form of fanzines in the bars of the Lavapiés neighbourhood of Madrid. They are the author of Living Things (2018) and The Mulai (2023), and they are also a translator from Chinese and English. In 2021, they appeared on Granta’s Best of Young Spanish-Language Novelists list.

‘The Mulai [is] Hachemi’s second short novel to be translated from Spanish to English by Julia Sanches, whose rendering of Hachemi’s prose always sounds alive and attuned to the nuances of the original ... [I]t is both playful and hedonistic, and the work of a writer who takes an original approach to exploring the instability of language, identity and, in this extraplanetary experiment, what might lie beyond.’ — Max Liu, Financial Times

Munir Hachemi’s career as a writer began with them selling their stories in the form of fanzines in the bars of the Lavapiés neighbourhood of Madrid. They are the author of Living Things (2018) and The Mulai (2023), and they are also a translator from Chinese and English. In 2021, they appeared on Granta’s Best of Young Spanish-Language Novelists list.

‘The Mulai [is] Hachemi’s second short novel to be translated from Spanish to English by Julia Sanches, whose rendering of Hachemi’s prose always sounds alive and attuned to the nuances of the original ... [I]t is both playful and hedonistic, and the work of a writer who takes an original approach to exploring the instability of language, identity and, in this extraplanetary experiment, what might lie beyond.’ — Max Liu, Financial Times