Benjamín Labatut

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2021/02/12

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Benjamín Labatut was born in Rotterdam in 1980 and grew up in The Hague, Buenos Aires, and Lima. He published two award-winning works of fiction prior to When We Cease to Understand the World , which is his first book to be translated into English. His new book The Maniac , which was written in English, is coming from Penguin Random House in October 2023. Labatut lives with his family in Santiago, Chile. Photo by Julieta Labatut