Alejandro Zambra





Alejandro Zambra

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born
January 01, 1975 in Santiago, Chile

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Estudió en el Instituto Nacional José Miguel Carrera, en el cual fue presidente de la ALCIN (Academia de Letras Castellanas) y después en la Universidad de Chile (Licenciado en Literatura Hispánica). Magíster en filología hispánica (CSIC, España) y doctor en literatura de la Universidad Católica, es profesor de literatura en la Universidad Diego Portales. Ha colaborado con críticas literarias y columnas en diversos periódicos como Las Últimas Noticias (donde durante tres años tuvo la columna Hoja por hoja), El Mercurio, La Tercera y The Clinic; también ha escrito para el suplemento literario Babelia de El País, la revista española Turia o la mexicana Letras Libres.


Average rating: 3.79 · 690 ratings · 119 reviews · 6 distinct works
The Private Lives of Trees
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3.63 of 5 stars 363 avg rating — 257 ratings — published 2007 — 5 editions
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Bonsai
3.88 of 5 stars 388 avg rating — 338 ratings — published 2008 — 10 editions
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Formas de volver a casa
4.06 of 5 stars 406 avg rating — 70 ratings — published 2011
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No leer
4.12 of 5 stars 412 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2010
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“What's the purpose of being with someone if they don't change your life? She said that, and Julio was present when she said it: that life only had purpose if you found someone who changed it, who destroyed your life.”
Alejandro Zambra, Bonsai

“¿Qué sentido tiene estar con alguien si no te cambia la vida?
(...)la vida sólo tenía
sentido si encontrabas a alguien que te la cambiara, que destruyera tu vida.”
Alejandro Zambra, Bonsai



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