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Alia Trabucco Zerán Author

Alia Trabucco Zeran was born in Chile in 1983. She was awarded a Fulbright scholarship for her MFA in Creative Writing at New York University and she holds a PhD in Spanish and Latin American Studies from University College London. The Remainder, her debut novel, won the prize for Best Unpublished Literary Work awarded by the Chilean Council for the Arts in 2014, and on publication was chosen by El Pais as one of its top ten debuts of 2015. In 2019, The Remainder was shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize. Sophie Hughes has translated novels by several contemporary Latin American and Spanish authors, including the Man Booker International-shortlisted novels The Remainder and Hurricane Season. Her translations, reviews and essays have been published in The Guardian, the Times Literary Supplement and elsewhere.