Samanta Schweblin is read about 326 times a day, in 22 languages.
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Something wrong?Samanta Schweblin is an Argentine author currently based in Berlin, Germany. She has published three collections of short stories, a novella and a novel, besides stories that have appeared in anthologies and magazines such as The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Granta, The Drawbridge, Harper’s Magazine and McSweeney’s.
A life in dates
Also in Deutsch
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, I think TV series, games, and general media have changed the way we tell stories. But books will remain.
I learned to write reading North American literature, I love your literature, but I have this feeling that if a country only reads its own literature, it will run out of oxygen.
In the moment you decide to publish, you hand them off.
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About this person
Samanta Schweblin is an Argentine author currently based in Berlin, Germany. She has published three collections of short stories, a novella and a novel, besides stories that have appeared in anthologies and magazines such as The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Granta, The Drawbridge, Harper’s Magazine and McSweeney’s. She has won numerous awards around the world and her books have been translated into more than forty languages and adapted for film.
In common with Samanta
Luis SepúlvedaBoth received Tigre Juan award
Yoko TawadaBoth received National Book Award for Translated Literature
Mariana EnriquezBoth received Premio Iberoamericano de Letras José Donoso
Cristina Rivera GarzaBoth received Premio Iberoamericano de Letras José Donoso
Yang Shuang-ziBoth received National Book Award for Translated Literature
Olga OrozcoBoth received Juan Rulfo PrizeFame.am measures public visibility signals. It does not measure human value, talent, morality, or credibility.