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.

Benjamín Labatut

All nominated books

When We Cease to Understand the World