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Benjamín Labatut

Benjamín Labatut is a Chilean writer. His first book of stories, La Antártica empieza aquí, won the Premio Caza de Letras 2009, awarded by UNAM and Alfaguara in Mexico. It also won the Santiago Municipal Literature Award in the short story category in 2013. His second book, Después de la luz, came out in 2016, followed by Un verdor terrible, which was published in English by Pushkin Press and nominated for the 2021 International Booker Prize.

He was born in Rotterdam in 1980, and spent his infancy in The Hague, Buenos Aires, and Lima. He moved to Santiago at the age of 14.
Lebensjahre: 1980 Gegenwart

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he was not so much interested in the world as he was invaded by its many forms.
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the man who pulled bread from air
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He spent nine months there, consumed by hatred, humiliated by the conditions the victorious parties had imposed on his adopted country, and feeling betrayed by the cowardice of the generals, who had surrendered rather than fighting to the last man.

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Great book! I enjoyed it, it made me wonder about life a lot, and I learnt a lot. I spend time in between reading investigating things mentioned in the book, so when somebody asked my son what is his mom doing, he replied: she's learning physics.😂

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