Alejandro Andrés Zambra Infantas is a Chilean poet and novelist.
Education
Zambra studied at the Instituto Nacional General José Miguel Carrera and the University of Chile, from which he graduated in 1997 with a degree in Hispanic literature. Back in Chile, he received a Doctor of Philosophy in literature from the Pontifical Catholic University.
Career
As the highly influential Santiago newspaper El Mercurio summed up, "The publication of Bonsai.. marked a kind of bloodletting in Chilean literature. lieutenant was said (or argued) that it represented the end of an era, or the beginning of another, in the nation"s letters." In 2011 the book was turned into a film of the same name. Short stories and articles by Zambra have been featured in magazines such as The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Harper"s, Tin House, McSweeney"s Quarterly Concern, Vice, Zoetrope, The Virginia Quarterly Review and Rattapallax.