The Chilean writer Diamela Eltit is the winner of the National Literature Prize 2018, the maximum literary award in Chile. In 1983 she published her first novel, Lumpérica, a work that marked a landmark in of resistence as it was created within the context of Pinochet’s dictatorship, when censorship reigned with rigor in all its expressions. In her last book, Sumar, the author narrates the tragedy of capitalist exploitation and what it means for street vendors and many other citizens. In conversation with the writer Giuseppe Caputo.