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Alejandro Zambra is a Chilean novelist, poet, and short story writer.

He was born on September 24, 1975 in Santiago, Chile. He has found recognition for his writing throughout his career. In 2007, he was selected as one of the best Latin American writers under age 39 as a ‘Bogotá39’. Zambra was also selected as one of the best Spanish-language authors under the age of 35 by Granta.

The author grew up in Chile during the time that Augusto Pinochet was dictator. In an interview done in a magazine with a friend from the Master’s program, the author talked about his thoughts regarding growing up in Chile during the seventies and eighties, a time of dictatorship, and delved into after the end of power how his life changed.

Zambra attended the Instituto Nacional General José Miguel Carrera as well as the University of Chile. He graduated with his degree in the subject of Hispanic literature in 1997. He also received a scholarship to go to Madrid for his postgraduate studies, getting an MA in Hispanic studies. The author also received his literature PhD in Chile from Pontifical Catholic University.

He has said that he would not choose to be a writer and doesn’t think that he chose it ever, but was worse at different things. Zambra started writing poetry and has also used metafiction, writing about writing, in his books.

He has had his articles and his short stories published in magazines that include The Paris Review, The New Yorker, McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, Quimera, and Babelia, among others. He has been employed for La Tercera, a newspaper, as a literary critic. He has also been a professor at the School of Literature in Santiago at Diego Portales University. He is married to Jazmina Barrera, a Mexican author. They share a son together.

Alejandro has also had his stories appear in The Paris Review, The New Yorker, Harper’s, Granta, Zoetrope, and McSweeney’s.

Bonsai was the first novel to come out from Alejandro Zambra. In Chile, it received much attention, and was featured in Editorial Anagrama, awarded the Chilean Critics Award in 2006 for best novel of the year. The book has been described as the end of an era in the nation’s letters and was translated into different languages as years went on. The book was adapted into a film that carried the same name and went on at the Cannes Film Festival in 2011. He went on to write many more books and win awards and enjoyed positive receptions along the way.

Bonsai is a novel written by Alejandro Zambra. It is the winner of Chile’s Literary Critics’ Award for best novel and has been adapted into a motion picture. If you have been looking forward to reading something unique and new, check this book out.

This is a great literary event in Latin America. It is the story of a young man and the love that he has and his mysterious disappearance. This is a simple story, as the narrator decides to inform the reader, one that quickly becomes complicated.

Alejandro looks into the relationship that exists in life in love and art through the closeness and the distance of these lovers in the story. This is an intriguing story that you must check out. If you are not familiar with Zambra’s work this is a great way to get started!

The Private Lives of Trees is a novel written by Alejandro Zambra, the second from the author to be released. This is a story where the writer tells his step-daughter a bedtime story that carries the same name as the novel.

It is the tale of just one night, where the young literature professor is reading a story to Daniela, all while waiting for his wife to return from going out to her art class. He is anxious for Verónica to come back but has been spending each night coming up with a completely unique story to tell her daughter that is all about trees. Then she goes to sleep once he is done with the story.

Every Sunday, he spends time working on a novel that is all about a man tending to his bonsai. Something about this night has changed, though. He has become more concerned than ever that his wife is not going to come back, and starts thinking about the life that they have lived together.

He also imagines what his step-daughter might think of his novel at different ages as she grows up.
He is planning on concluding the story when the mom comes home from work. This is a semi-autobiographical story since the man in this book has finished a book about bonsai trees, which is a reference by the author to himself as he had just finished his previous book Bonsai.

Read The Private Lives of Trees by Alejandro Zambra to witness the magic spell that it casts for yourself!