Alejandro Zambra

Alejandro Andrés Zambra Infantas is a Chilean poet, novelist and short-story writer, born in Santiago in 1975. His books include Bonsai (2006), The Private Lives of Trees (2007), Not to Read (2010), Ways of Going Home (2011), My Documents (2013), Multiple Choice (2014) and Chilean Poet (2020). In Chile, among other honours he has won the National Book Council Award for best novel three times. In English, he has won the English PEN Award and the PEN/O. Henry Prize, and he has been a finalist for the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award. In 2023 he won the Manuel Rojas Ibero-American Prize for the totality of his oeuvre. He has also won the Prince Claus Award (Holland) and received a Cullman Centre Fellowship from the New York Public Library. His books have been translated into 20 languages and his stories have been published in The New Yorker, New York Times Magazine, The Paris Review, Granta, McSweeney’s Quarterly and Harper’s, among other publications. He has taught creative writing and Hispanic literature for 15 years and currently lives in Mexico City.