Books & Spoken Word
Novel Writers – Alia Trabucco Zerán
Alia Trabucco Zerán reads from and introduces her brilliant debut novel, The Remainder.
Three children of ex-militants count the cost of dictatorship and generational trauma in this superb debut from Chile’s brightest new writer.
The Remainder is translated from Spanish by Sophie Hughes, winner of the English Pen Award.
is needed now More than ever
Alia Trabucco Zerán was born in Chile in 1983. She was awarded a Fulbright scholarship for her MFA in Creative Writing at New York University and she holds a PhD in Spanish and Latin American Studies from University College London. The Remainder won the prize for Best Unpublished Literary Work awarded by the Chilean Council for the Arts in 2014, and on publication was chosen by El País as one of its top ten debuts of 2015.
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