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Alejandro Zambra

Alejandro Zambra
Alejandro Zambra is the author of ten books, including Multiple Choice, Bonsai, The Private Lives of Trees, and My Documents, a finalist for the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award. The recipient of numerous literary prizes, as well as a New York Public Library Cullman Center fellowship, he has published fiction and essays in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, The Paris Review, and Harper’s Magazine, among other publications. He lives in Mexico City.


A Literary Inheritance: On the Stories We Tell (and Don’t Tell) To Our Children

Alejandro Zambra: “All I have to do is sit beside you...and read to you the parts of the book that have words...”
October 8, 2024  By Alejandro Zambra
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Alejandro Zambra on Juan Emar, Whose Avant-Garde Writings Deserve Our Attention

“He wanted to write, to give himself over to pure leisure, to the search.”
May 2, 2022  By Alejandro Zambra
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Alejandro Zambra on One of the Great Diarists of the 20th Century

Julio Ramon Ribeyro, Descendant of Kafka and Borges, True Skeptic of the Novel
October 22, 2019  By Alejandro Zambra
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