"I was born in a country, Peru, where there is very little consideration for animals, and where they are even mistreated, but for a little more than half of my life I have lived in a place where they are highly respected," comments the narrator Claudia Ulloa Donoso (Lima, 1979), who has just arrived from Trondheim, a city located in central Norway, to present her third collection of stories. The Terrible Fear of Being an Animal (Páginas de Espuma, 2026) conjugates the realities of the Latin American country where she grew up and became an adult and those of the European country where she works as a teacher and has consolidated her literary career. "I arrived in Norway for love, but I stayed to study sociology and education, and I haven't left since," she recalls.