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Alejandro Andrés Zambra Infantas (Santiago, Chile, b. September 24, 1975) is a Chilean poet, short story writer and novelist. He has been recognized for his talent as a young Latin American writer, chosen in 2007 as one of the "Bogotá39" (the best Latin American writers under the age of 39) and in 2010 by Granta as one of the best Spanish-language writers under the age of 35.[2]

Alejandro Zambra
Alejandro Zambra at the 2015 National Book Festival
BornSeptember 24, 1975
Santiago, Chile
OccupationWriter
LanguageSpanish
NationalityChilean
CitizenshipChilean
Alma materUniversity of Chile, Pontifical Catholic University
Notable worksBonsái (2006), Formas de volver a casa (2011)
Notable awardsAltazor Award, Prince Claus Awards[1]
SpouseJazmina Barrera
Children2

Early life and education


Alejandro Zambra was raised in 1975 in Maipú, Chile, a suburb of Santiago, during the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. In a magazine interview with his close friend from his Master's program, Zambra explains his thoughts on growing up in Chile during the 1970s and 1980s. Growing up in such a time, Zambra considers himself and his generation, "children of the dictatorship." He later describes how his life changed after Pinochet's end of power, "The nineties were a time of smudging out. The dictatorship tried to impose all of those stupid discourses, and those discourses erased us."[3]

Zambra studied at the Instituto Nacional General José Miguel Carrera and the University of Chile, from which he graduated in 1997 with a degree in Hispanic literature. He won a scholarship to pursue postgraduate studies in Madrid, where he obtained an MA in Hispanic studies.[3] Back in Chile, he received a PhD in literature from the Pontifical Catholic University.[4]


Career


Zambra describes the beginning of his writing career as, "I wouldn’t choose to be a writer. Actually I don’t think I ever chose it, I was just undeniably worse at other things."[5] Zambra began with writing poetry, citing influences such as Nicanor Parra, Jorge Teillier, Gonzalo Millán, and Enrique Lihn, and his brief novels are noted for their poetic natures.[6] He is often noted for his successful use of metafiction, or writing about writing, in his novels. Short stories and articles by Zambra have been featured in magazines such as The New Yorker, The Paris Review, McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, Babelia, and Quimera.[7] Zambra also has worked as a literary critic for the newspaper La Tercera and as a professor at the School of Literature at Diego Portales University in Santiago.[8]


Bonsái


Zambra's first novel, Bonsái, attracted much attention in Chile[9] and appeared in the Spanish Editorial Anagrama, which was awarded the Chilean Critics Award for best novel of the year in 2006. As the highly influential Santiago newspaper El Mercurio summed up, "The publication of Bonsai ... marked a kind of bloodletting in Chilean literature. It was said (or argued) that it represented the end of an era, or the beginning of another, in the nation's letters."[10] Bonsái was eventually translated into several languages, such as English at Melville Publishing House by Carolina Robertis. Just five years later, the book was turned into a film of the same name[11] directed by Christían Jiménez, and presented at the Cannes Film Festival in 2011.[12]


The Private Lives of Trees


In this second novel, a writer tells his stepdaughter a bedtime story called "The Private Lives of Trees" (same title as the novel), which he plans to end when the mother returns home from work. This novel appears to be somewhat autobiographical, as the man in the story also has finished a book about bonsai trees, referencing Zambra's previous successful novel Bonsái.[13]


Ways of Going Home


His 2013 novel Ways of Going Home is fictional but draws heavily on Zambra's childhood experience under the Pinochet dictatorship. The novel switches between the memory of a nine-year-old boy growing up during a restrictive dictatorship and the life of the narrator who is writing the story, an example of meta-writing, or writing about writing. "This small novel contains a surprising vastness, created by its structure of alternating chapters of fiction and reality," Adam Thirlwell writes in The New York Times. "Almost every miniature event or conversation is subject to a process of revision, until you realize that Zambra is staging not just a single story of life under political repression, but the conditions for telling any story at all."[14]


Bibliography



Poetry



Novels



Short stories



Criticism and essays



Movies adaptions



English translations



Critical studies and reviews of Zambra's work


Not to read

Awards



References


  1. "2012 Principal Prince Claus awardees announced" (Press release). Prince Claus Fund for Culture and Development. Archived from the original on 2015-09-24. Retrieved November 13, 2013.
  2. "Zambra, Alejandro - Editorial Anagrama". Editorial Anagrama (in European Spanish). Retrieved 2018-11-19.
  3. "Alejandro Zambra on the Intimacy of Writing Tales of Love, and the Anhedonia After the Nineties - Extra Extra Magazine". Extra Extra Magazine. Retrieved 2018-11-18.
  4. "Alejandro Zambra | The Short Story Project". www.shortstoryproject.com. Retrieved 2018-11-18.
  5. "The TLS interview: Twenty Questions with Alejandro Zambra". www.the-tls.co.uk. Retrieved 2018-11-19.
  6. Vidal, Juan (28 Feb 2014). "Image is Everything: An Interview with Alejandro Zambra". ProQuest 1648946088. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  7. "Alejandro Zambra | The Short Story Project". www.shortstoryproject.com. Retrieved 2018-11-19.
  8. "Interview with Alejandro Zambra - The White Review". www.thewhitereview.org. Retrieved 2018-11-19.
  9. "Escritores cuentan cómo crean obras". Los Tiempos (in Spanish). August 25, 2007. Archived from the original on November 13, 2013. Retrieved November 13, 2013.
  10. Valdes, Marcela (July 6, 2009). "Seed Projects: The Fiction of Alejandro Zambra". The Nation. Retrieved November 13, 2013.
  11. Leo Nikolaidis. "Interview with Bonsai director Cristián Jiménez". Sounds and Colours. Retrieved April 10, 2012.
  12. "Bonsai, from the Cinéfondation to Un Certain Regard". Festival de Cannes 2018. 2011-05-14. Retrieved 2018-11-18.
  13. Curry, Ruth (2010). "Alejandro Zambra: The Private Lives of Trees". The Literary Review. Retrieved 19 Nov 2018.
  14. Thirlwell, Adam (29 Mar 2019). "By Night in Chile". The New York Times. Retrieved 2018-11-19.
  15. "Family Life" – via www.imdb.com.
  16. "Bonsái" – via www.imdb.com.

Further reading





На других языках

[de] Alejandro Zambra

Alejandro Zambra (* 1975 in Santiago de Chile) ist ein chilenischer Romanautor, Lyriker und Literaturkritiker. Sein vielbeachteter Debütroman Bonsái ist 2006 mit dem chilenischen Kritikerpreis ausgezeichnet worden.
- [en] Alejandro Zambra

[fr] Alejandro Zambra

Alejandro Zambra, né le 24 juillet 1975[1] à Santiago, est un écrivain chilien.

[ru] Самбра, Алехандро

Алехандро Андрес Самбра Инфантас (исп.  Alejandro Andrés Zambra Infantas, 1975, Сантьяго) — чилийский поэт, прозаик, критик, педагог.


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