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Benjamín Labatut

Benjamín Labatut is a Chilean writer. His first book of stories, La Antártica empieza aquí, won the Premio Caza de Letras 2009, awarded by UNAM and Alfaguara in Mexico. It also won the Santiago Municipal Literature Award in the short story category in 2013. His second book, Después de la luz, came out in 2016, followed by Un verdor terrible, which was published in English by Pushkin Press and nominated for the 2021 International Booker Prize.

He was born in Rotterdam in 1980, and spent his infancy in The Hague, Buenos Aires, and Lima. He moved to Santiago at the age of 14.
years of life: 1980 – present

Quotes

finalfadeouthas quotedlast year
In the last letter he sent to his wife from Russia, written the same day he chose to share his discovery with Einstein, Schwarzschild complains of something strange that has begun to grow inside him: “I don’t know how to name or define it, but it has an irrepressible force and darkens all my thoughts. It is a void without form or dimension, a shadow I can’t see, but one that I can feel with the entirety of my soul.”
Soon afterwards, that shadow invaded his body.
finalfadeouthas quotedlast year
“If researchers want to apprehend my work, they must first deactivate the thought patterns that they have installed in their brains and taken for granted for so many years,” Mochizuki wrote on his blog.
finalfadeouthas quotedlast year
Tell me, Professor, when did all this madness begin? When did we cease to understand the world?

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Great book! I enjoyed it, it made me wonder about life a lot, and I learnt a lot. I spend time in between reading investigating things mentioned in the book, so when somebody asked my son what is his mom doing, he replied: she's learning physics.😂

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