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Benjamin Labatut
Benjamín Labatut was born in 1980 in Rotterdam, grew up in The Hague, Buenos Aires, and Lima, and currently lives in Santiago, Chile. By the age of 25, he had not yet written a single word of prose and thought he was already too old to become a writer, until he met an elderly Chilean poet. Since th…
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Benjamín Labatut was born in 1980 in Rotterdam, grew up in The Hague, Buenos Aires, and Lima, and currently lives in Santiago, Chile. By the age of 25, he had not yet written a single word of prose and thought he was already too old to become a writer, until he met an elderly Chilean poet. Since then, he has written several acclaimed works, including When We Cease to Understand the World, which was shortlisted for the 2021 International Booker Prize.
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