Alejandro Zambra

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."

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.