Alejandro Zambra

Multi-award-winning Chilean writer Alejandro Zambra is the author of poetry, essays, and novels. His books include The Private Lives of Trees and Ways of Going Home.

Zambra will join us at BorderKitchen to talk about his new book Vadertaal (Literatura infantil) , a meditation on fatherhood and childhood exploring how the birth and growth of a child not only changes the present and the future, but also shakes up our ideas about the past.

Vadertaal is a diary of fatherhood, a letter to a son, and pure fiction, with Zambra’s genres coexisting in strange harmony in this unclassifiable book. Read it as an extraordinarily varied manual for new parents, or simply as a new and brilliant chapter in the oeuvre of Alejandro Zambra.