(Chile, 1988) She studied Literature at the University of Chile and in 2014 won the Roberto Bolaño Prize for the story “Qué vergüenza”, the titular story of her first book. Qué vergüenza won the Círculo de Críticos de Arte Literature Prize for best first book and has been praised as “a brilliant book, which recovers the capricious rhythm of partings, the moment when failures matter less than the desire to share them.” (Alejandro Zambra).
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