In 2017, Hasbun was included in the Bogotá 39 list of the most promising young writers in Latin America.

[1] He studied journalism in Bolivia and, after finishing university, Hasbún spent a year, between 2003 and 2004, in Santiago de Chile, a country where his grandparents and also his father had lived.

[3] Based on the short story Carretera, which was part of Cinco, Bolivian director Martín Boulocq shot his second feature film, Los viejos, which was released in 2011.

Hasbún and Boulocq (born in Cochabamba in 1981) grew up together and have done many things in common (the filmmaker was also part of the band where the writer played).

[4] He published his first award-winning novel, El lugar del cuerpo, in 2007, and two years later he was selected in the list of the top ten outstanding Latin American writers by the American magazine Zoetrope: All Story.