Alejandro Zambra

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Alejandro Zambra (born 1975) is a poet, fiction writer, and literary critic born in Santiago, Chile. He studied at the Instituto Nacional and the University of Chile. He currently teaches at the School of Literature at the Diego Portales University in Santiago. He has contributed articles on literature in newspapers The Latest News, The Clinic, El Mercurio and La Tercera, and magazines such as Turia and Letras Libres.

Poeta chileno by Alejandro Zambra

Spring 2021
Alejandro Zambra

Barcelona. Editorial Anagrama. 2020. 421 pages. ALEJANDRO ZAMBRA—who frequently expounds on why the Great Latin American Novel will be distinguished by its poeticity and keeps garneri...
Multiple Choice by Alejandro Zambra

January 2017
Alejandro Zambra

New York. Penguin Books. 2016. 101 pages. Alejandro Zambra is a comprehensive reader of Bolaño and Perec, and surely of Natalia Ginzburg and Cesare Pavese, although he says one is dumb if worried abou...
Mis documentos by Alejandro Zambra

May-August 2014
Alejandro Zambra

Barcelona. Anagrama. 2014. ISBN 9788433997715 If “publish or perish” is an academic creed, Alejandro Zambra abides by “polish or perish.” The eleven narratives included under an ingenious title, which...
Formas de volver a casa by Alejandro Zambra

November 2012
Alejandro Zambra

Barcelona. Anagrama. 2011. ISBN 9788433972279 Formas de volver a casa, Alejandro Zambra’s third novel, is the logical continuation of his two previous works: Bonsái (2006) and La...