Benjamín Labatut and Adrian Nathan West on When We Cease to Understand the World
Author Benjamín Labatut and translator Adrian Nathan West talk about the International Booker Prize-longlisted When We Cease to Understand the World.
Benjamín Labatut
Benjamín Labatut was born in Rotterdam in 1980 and grew up in The Hague, Buenos Aires and Lima.
He has 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. Labatut lives with his family in Santiago, Chile.
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Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize in 2021. Benjamín Labatut’s extraordinary imagination digs deep into the territory between fact and fiction, progress and destruction, genius and madness. Translated by Adrian Nathan West.
