Andrés Neuman

Andrés Neuman published his first novel Bariloche at the age of 22. The novel was a finalist for Spain’s prestigious Herralde Prize and won the acclaim of many literary critics. A prolific writer, Neuman has since published novels, poetry, aphorisms, short stories and essays. He has won Spain’s National Critics Prize, the Hiperión Prize for poetry and the Alfaguara Prize. In 2010 he was selected by Granta as one of the Best Young Spanish-Language Novelists, earning him international recognition. His work has been translated into 17 languages.

His English-language debut novel Traveler of the Century (2012) was shortlisted for the UK’s Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, and was included on numerous best of the year lists in both the UK and the USA. His latest work Talking to Ourselves is his second novel in English translation, and was published in 2014. Told in three voices – of a mother, a father and their son – it is an intimate family portrait that illustrates, among other things, what happens to a family when confronted with illness: the various coping mechanisms of the caregiver and the infirm, and the elements of life one holds on to in the face of impending death.

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