Alejandro Zambra
Appearance
Alejandro Zambra (1975-) is a poet, fiction writer, and literary critic born in Santiago, Chile. His first novel, Bonsái, won several prizes and attracted much attention in Chile: as the highly influential Santiago newspaper El Mercurio summed up, "The publication of Bonsai . . . marked a kind of bloodletting in Chilean literature. It was said (or argued) that it represented the end of an era, or the beginning of another, in the nation's letters."[1]
Bibliography
Books
- Bahía Inútil [Useless Bay]. Ediciones Stratis, 1998.
- Mudanza [Move, as in "moving house"]. Quid Ediciones, 2003; Ediciones Tácitas, 2008.
- Bonsái [Bonsai]. Editorial Anagrama, 2006.
- La vida privada de los árboles [The Private Life of Trees]. Editorial Anagrama, 2007.
English translations
- Bonsai. Translated by Carolina De Robertis. Melville House Publishing, 2008.
- The Private Lives of Trees. Translated by Megan McDowell. Open Letter Books, 2010.
Stories
- "Noventa días" ["Ninety Days"]. In Vagón fumador: Antología de relatos sobre el tobaco [Smoking Car: An Anthology of Stories about Tobacco]. Buenos Aires: Eterna Cadencia, 2008.
References
- ^ Valdes, Marcela. "Seed Projects: The Fiction of Alejandro Zambra." The Nation July 6, 2009.