Alejandro Zambra
Alejandro Zambra was born in Santiago, Chile in 1975. He is the author of two books of poems, Bahía Inútil and Mudanza; a collection of essays, No leer; and three novels, Bonsái, which was awarded a Chilean Critics Award for best novel, The Private Lives of Trees, and Ways of Going Home, which was awarded the Altazor Prize, selected by The National Book Council as the best Chilean novel published during 2012, and won an English Pen Award. He was selected as one of Granta‘s Best of Young Spanish-Language Novelists and was elected to the Bogotá39 list.
Publications
Alejandro Zambra on Granta.com
Essays & Memoir
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Issue 159
Blue-Eyed Muggers
Alejandro Zambra
‘At every protest, when it was time to yell at the cops, I remembered my father and felt a turbulent emotion.’
Memoir by Alejandro Zambra on his father and his son.
Fiction | Issue 134
Reading Comprehension: Text No. 2
Alejandro Zambra
‘Which of the following famous phrases best reflects the meaning of the text?’
Essays & Memoir | Issue 134
Searching for Pavese
Alejandro Zambra
‘Something’s gone awry with this article. My intention was to remember, in his birthplace, a writer I admire, and it’s clear that my admiration has waned.’
Essays & Memoir | Issue 134
Introducing Daniel Galera
Alejandro Zambra
‘It’s hard to introduce Daniel Galera’s tale without resorting to adjectives that are more likely to arouse distrust than interest.’
Fiction
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Issue 113
Ways of Going Home
Alejandro Zambra
‘It was hard for me to understand how someone could live alone.’