Alejandro Zambra (Chile) is the author of ten books that have been translated into at least 20 languages, and is the winner of awards such as the English PEN Award and the Prince Claus; in 2007 he was selected to feature on the Bogotá39 list as one of the 39 best Latin American fiction writers under 40. In his most recent novel, Un cuento de navidad, Zambra talks about the relationship with his publisher and, as this relationship grows, how they influence each other as authors and, as the decades pass, as friends. In conversation with Isabel Posadas.