Zambra, Alejandro

Alejandro Zambra is a poet, novelist, and literary critic who was born in Santiago, Chile, in 1975. He is the author of the novels "Ways of Going Home", "The Private Lives of Trees "and "Bonsai", which was awarded a Chilean Critics Award for best novel. He was selected as one of "Granta" s Best of Young Spanish-Language Novelists and was elected to the Bogota39 list.