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.
